Notes Towards Day 16

I. English major tea (with costumes!) @ 4 p.m.

II. We'll continue discussing the novel all next week--

do you like it? why/why not?
what snagged/grabbed you?
what puzzled/irritated you?
(THAT's the opening gambit for your paper...
what you DON'T understand....)

 

“…literature is...the place where impasses can be kept and opened for examination, questions can be guarded and not forced into a premature validation of the available paradigms. Literature…is…a mode of cultural work, the work of giving-to-read those impossible contradictions that cannot yet be spoken." (Barbara Johnson: The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender, 1998) 

III. On Friday by 5 p.m.:
3 pp. interpretation of the novel due,
from Hyde, Allen, Schwartz, Pollan's p.o.v.
what would they say about it:
how the novel works, what's going on, what's important?
(i.e.: what does Hyde's coyote have to do w/ the coyotes in the novel?
what would Allen say about the structure of foreground/background?
what would Schwartz's take be on the presentation of choice?
or Pollan's on the treatment of the food chain?

IV. Some leads (your postings) for us to explore together
anthropologist (?)/ihe on the moth dream

Paul Grobstein/SarahO/ on the lack of ambiguity (too explicit)

Paula Gunn Allen/stephkim on balance

Paula Gunn Allen/emily on balanced story (in "balanced" format?!)

Lewis Hyde/mcchen on the "real" coyotes

Lewis Hyde/swhitt on range of unwitting/intentional tricksters

Lewis Hyde/cjewett "proving" the existence of female tricksters

Lewis Hyde/hwiencek/ on outcomes of the storylines
("prerequistes of art") of 3 tricksters

Lewis Hyde/Yellow on predator/prey relationships--and woundedness

Malli? Aybala? Leigh? Lydia? Ilana?

V. (Modeling) looking closely @ the novel/using quotations-->
a "bottom-up" approach