Notes Towards Day 16: Beginning Prodigal Summer

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. By 5 p.m. on Saturday:
3 pp. interpretation of the novel due,
from Hyde, Allen, Schwartz, Pollan, whoever's p.o.v.
what would they say about 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