{"id":3,"date":"2016-01-05T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jerome225\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T22:49:01","slug":"course-schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jerome225\/course-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Literature in English Texts and Contexts, Volume 2, Eds. Sugars and Moss (CLC)<\/p>\n<p>How to Read (and Write About) Poetry by Susan Holbrook (Holbrook)<\/p>\n<p>All work listed for a given class (readings, discussion, homework, exercises) much be completed by that class. Typically, in Thursday\u2019s class we\u2019ll continue on from discussions started during Tuesday\u2019s class.<\/p>\n<p>You have three kinds of written assignments this term: a short talk, close reading, a research paper. Read Holbrook to understand close reading and research as well as key terms to gain some preliminary understanding of how to write critically about poetry. We\u2019ll discuss all of this in class.<\/p>\n<p>Class Proceedings Homework (to be read\/written on date listed)<\/p>\n<p>Week 1 January 4-8<\/p>\n<p>Course Introduction: Poetries<\/p>\n<p>Jan 7<\/p>\n<p>Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold<\/p>\n<p>Birth Poem by Lillian Allen<\/p>\n<p>Christian B\u00f6k reads from Chapter I, Eunoia, text can be found on page 671 of your anthology<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poet Christian Bok reads from Eunoia\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUNwHmQc9yk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Bergvall reads from \u201cSummer Tale\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/writing.upenn.edu\/pennsound\/x\/Bergvall.php<br \/>\nWeek 2 Jan 11-15<\/p>\n<p>Lecture on Canadian Poetries #1<\/p>\n<p>Indigeneity, Nation-Making, Empire<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Sea Chant\u201d Inuit poem translated by Danish Anthropologist Knud Rasmussen<\/p>\n<p>Inuit throat singing<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Cry from an Indian Wife\u201d by Pauline Johnson (handout)<\/p>\n<p>Return to \u201cA Cry from An Indian Wife\u201d by Pauline Johnson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 3 January 18-22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lecture on Canadian Poetries #2<\/p>\n<p>Enduring Colonial Mythologies, Resistances and Postmodern Experiments<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelpless\u201d by Neil Young (handout)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSandra Lee Scheuer\u201d by Gary Geddes (handout)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDark Pines Under Water\u201d by Gwendolyn MacEwen (handout)<\/p>\n<p>for postmodern experiments, return to B\u00f6k + Bergvall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacob\u201d by Maria Campbell<\/p>\n<p>Essay: Read \u201cSad Anthropologists: the Dialectical Use of Tone\u201d by Tony Hoagland (handout) + questions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 4 January 25-29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catch up<\/p>\n<p>Read Holbrook, Intro and Discussions One + Two<\/p>\n<p>*You must read Holbrook\u2019s text, How to Read and Write About Poetry, from pages 123-152.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 5 February 1-5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Close Reading Due Feb. 4: One Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earle Birney<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: Making it New in Canada, page 1 (anthology)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnglosaxon Street\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada: Case History: 1945\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan Lit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBushed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201ci accuse us\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada: Case History: 1973\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 6 February 8-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Livesay<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>Holbrook Discussions 3 + 4<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDay and Night\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Three Emily\u2019s\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Unquiet Bed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 7 February 15-19 BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>*You must re-read Holbrook\u2019s text, How to Read and Write About Poetry, from pages 123-152.<\/p>\n<p>Read Holbrook discussions 5 + 6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 8 February 22-26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Short Talks DUE<\/strong> (5 min recitation + short, critical talk)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 9 February 29-March 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al Purdy<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>Read Holbrook\u2019s Discussion 7 + 8<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: Nationalists, Intellectuals and Iconoclasts, 213<\/p>\n<p>Frye, Conclusion to Literary History of Canada, 253<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Country North of Belleville\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the Quinte Hotel\u201d (on-line)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLament for the Dorsets\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiling Blood\u201d (on-line)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome Thoughts\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 10 March 7-11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cohen\/Ondaatje<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>Read Holbrook\u2019s Discussions 9 + 10<\/p>\n<p>How to Write a Research Paper<\/p>\n<p>From Survival\u201d A Thematic Guide to Can Lit, 446<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHallejuah\u201d (on-line)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuzanne Takes You Down\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow to Speak Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ondaatje \u201cLetters &amp; Other Worlds\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cinnamon Peeler\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 11 March 14-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don McKay<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>Read Holbrook\u2019s Brief Discussion of Meter, pages 111-122<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: The Local, The National, and the Global, 517<\/p>\n<p>Lee, from Cadence, Country, Silence: Writing in Colonial Space, 470<\/p>\n<p>From \u201cBaler Twine: thoughts on ravens, home, and nature poetry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes a Voice (1)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSong for the Song of the Wood Thrush\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoad\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 12 March 21-25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M. NourbeSe Philip<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Paper Due<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscourse on the Logic of Language\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 13 March 28-April 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anne Carson<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort Talk on Sunday Dinner with Father\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort Talk on My Task\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort Talk on Major and Minor\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFather\u2019s Old Blue Cardigan\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAudubon\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 14 April 4-8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Dumont<\/p>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White Judges\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetter to Sir John A Macdonald\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCircle the Wagons\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cmy life, a sweet berry\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Schedule Canadian Literature in English Texts and Contexts, Volume 2, Eds. 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