Assignments and Announcements

Don't forget your blog responses.
Make sure you are continuing to write on your blog/respond to readings and discussion every week.

This week: Kearney and Bryant (textual and performance, etc)

Next week:
Butler and Spahr, prepare for discussion on Monday, bring things to say and share

Wed: Stein's Geographical History
(read through pdf p387 or up to Chapter IV [They say I am not right when I say that what you say is not the same...]).

Group 1 will be responsible for class discussion. Consider the following to direct the discussion and ask questions of the rest of the class:

-narrative (content, progress, "storyness," characters and/or etc narrative elements)

-genre (including ideas about boundaries and conforming, transcending, transforming)

-identity (including ideas about gender, sex, orientation and practice, race, ethnicity, cultural and geographical location, etc)

-language (vocabulary, tone, repetition, play, construction, manipulation, etc)

-structure and organization issues/strategies/elements

-the relation between form and content