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Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 2

This is the second set of webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. Two months into the semester, students are writing here, generally, about the literary categories we call "genres," and specifically about a particular (prototypical?) romance, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 1

These are the first webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. One month into the semester, students are writing here, most generally, about the human propensity to categorize; more specifically, about the literary categories we call "genres," and even more specifically about a particularly (prototypically novel?) object we've categorized as Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

Beginning Uncle Tom's Cabin

Notes Towards Day 12 of Emerging Genres
Beginning Uncle Tom's Cabin


Facts and Transformations

Notes Towards Day 11 of Emerging Genres

Moby-Dick, The End

Notes Towards Day 10 of Emerging Genres

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Week 4--Empirical Non-Foundationalism/The Unsounded Ocean

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 6:51pm

This week we'll be exploring "empirical non-foundationalism" in two different genres. The first, fictional version is demonstrated by the "intellectual chowder" Ishmael is making of Moby-Dick. The other version takes the form of the academic essay Paul just published in Soundings. What are your thoughts about these approaches to understanding, either alone or in tandem, as you go fellow-traveling in the "unsounded ocean that is Life"?

The Politics of Moby-Dick

Notes Towards Day 7 of Emerging Genres
Exploring the Political Dimensions of Moby-Dick



Leviathan, from Espace Modial

Exploring Moby-Dick, Day 2

Notes Towards Day 6 of Emerging Genres

The Second Third of Moby-Dick

Starting Moby-Dick
Day 5 of Emerging Genres

Starting Moby-Dick


To frame our discussion: Blue (Moby Dick)
c. 1943 from Web Museum, Paris--
consider Jackson Pollack's "drip and splash style,"

The Power and Limits of Synecdoche

Notes Towards Day 4 of Emerging Genres

The Power and Limits of Synecdoche

"a stage director ... ambitiously attempts to put on a play by
creating a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse...."

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