Good afternoon :)
I hope that the extended responses are coming along well. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns about them this weekend.
For Monday, we will be reading chapters 6 and 7, focusing on setting and symbol as well as style, irony, and tone. On Tuesday, we may look at Sherman Alexie's stories. We will finish up fiction and begin watching Nosferatu then.
Here is a link to "Why I Live at the P.O.":
You may read some of Bright Lights, Big City here:
Here are a few more questions for your journal and perhaps the next extended response:
-- what purpose does fiction serve? why is it worth reading?
-- which short story has been your favorite so far? why?
-- what makes a narrator reliable?
-- why might an author choose to give a story an unreliable narrator?
-- of the short stories we've read, which narrators could be unreliable? why?
-- discuss the impact of Bright Lights, Big City's second person narration
Here is the beginning of the movie starring Michael J. Fox:
-- discuss the impact of a narrator's language. Do you prefer him/her to use standard English? Do you prefer him/her to use more colorful or less formal language? Which types of language do you trust more? Why? Why not?
-- Discuss the impact of a story's setting (time and place). Why does it matter when/where a story is set?
-- Have you been to any of the settings in the stories we've read so far? What is it it like for you to read these stories and revisit these settings?
-- What is it like for you to read about places that are very much unlike Montgomery County?
-- What is it like for you to read stories set in the distant or not-so-distant past?
-- Discuss the impact of imagery in one of the stories we've read or are reading this weekend.
-- Discuss the impact of conventional, allegorical, or unconventional symbolism in one of the stories we've read or are reading.
-- Which is the most interesting symbol you've encountered in the stories we've read or are reading? why?
-- Which is the most interesting symbol you've encountered outside of our class? why?
-- Discuss a symbol from a culture that is not mainstream American.
-- Compare "Today's Demon: Magic" and "The Christmas Pies" as fiction and as graphic fiction.
-- Which other graphic fiction belongs in our anthology? why?
-- What is your definition of literature? Which works fit? Which do not? Why?
(Note that at one point plays were not considered to be literature and that the Bodleian library did not originally contain play scripts, even Shakespeare's.)
(Note that at one point plays were not considered to be literature and that the Bodleian library did not originally contain play scripts, even Shakespeare's.)
-- How would you expand on someone's point from Thursday's discussions?
I look forward to seeing and hearing what you have to say!
Dr. Szlyk
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