Class, Mon, 3/19

Changes to schedule

Some responses to x7: Strunk and Not-Strunk

  • Lia, untitled (Joseph Nye and Levitt & Dubner)
  • Alex, “Offbeat Tweets” (John Mayer and Kanye West)
  • Kate, “Function and Form” (Christopher Hitchens and David Foster Wallace)
  1. How does the writer define an alternative style to Strunk & White?
  2. How is the alternative exemplified in the passages cited?
  3. How is the alternative enacted in the writer’s own prose?

Link of Zen

Springsteen at SXSW 2012

Springsteen talks about his influences at SXSW 2012

To Do

  1. Wed, 3/21, class: Read Fish, pp.1-88.
  2. Mon. 3/26, class: Find examples of subordinating and additive styles. Read Winston Weathers (in Class Readings).
  3. Tues, 3/27, 9:00 am: Post x8 to Dropbox.
  4. Wed, 3/28, class: Identify texts for e2.

 

Class, Mon, 1/30

Introductions: Covers and remixes

Coming to terms with Old School

  • Rebecca Dickerson, “Are Words More Than Words?”
  • Tobias Wollf, Interview
  • Alex Kreger, “Reading’s All Write”
  • Anna Lamb, “Mistaken Identity”

Why does the writer plagiarize Susan Friedman’s story?
What does the novel suggest the relationship between imitation and originality?

  • Ernest Hemingway reads the narrator’s “Summer Dance” (135–38)
  • Susan Friedman reads the narrator’s “Summer Dance” (161-63)

x3: Posner

To Do

  1. Wed, 2/01, class: Read Posner
  2. Thurs, 2/02, 9:00 am: Post x3 to Dropbox