Good evening & Happy Halloween :)
I hope that your papers are coming along well. I will be sending the last of the rough drafts this evening. If you have questions, feel free to check in with me. Also, the Writing Center will be open tomorrow if you would like to meet with a tutor.
Here is a link to Nosferatu online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
This is the version with the original score *and* English titles. Nosferatu will be on the exam, so it is important to watch both parts.
On Tuesday we will begin poetry. Please read ch. 12. Here are five more poems for you.
The first is Sherman Alexie's "Defending Walt Whitman."
The next is Whitman's "I Hear America Singing":
http://www.poets.org/
http://www.poets.org/
The next is Mary Ellen Solt's "Forsythia":
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/
This is John Bradley's "On Trying to Teach the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks":
http://thebluehourmagazine.
http://thebluehourmagazine.
Here is Coleman Barks' translation of Rumi's "What Was Said to the Rose"
The last is Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Rites for Cousin Vit":
http://apoppiti.qwriting.qc.
http://apoppiti.qwriting.qc.
And here are the questions:
-- Compare Nosferatu to graphic fiction that you have read. How are they different? How are they similar? How do they complement each other?
-- Does EN 190 have a place for genre fiction (horror, SF, fantasy, mystery)? Why? Why not?
-- If you have studied art history or art appreciation, apply what you know to discuss Nosferatu as an art work.
-- If you have studied film history or filmmaking, apply what you know to discuss Nosferatu as a film.
-- Discuss elements of the supernatural in Nosferatu.
-- Discuss elements of the natural in Nosferatu.
-- Discuss the divide between city (Wisnau) and country (Transylvania).
-- Use concepts from EN 190 (plot, character, setting, image/symbols, narration) to discuss Nosferatu.
-- Discuss Nosferatu and Ellen's attraction towards each other. Here are some scenes from the 1979 Nosferatu:
What do these add to your understanding of these characters' dynamic? How do they complicate it?
Take a look at the last eight minutes of the 1979 Nosferatu.
Does this ending satisfy you? Why? Why not? Compare this ending to that of the 1922 version.
Do you think that Hutter should be a vampire at the end of the movie? Why? Why not?
What does Nosferatu add to your understanding of literature (given that it is a movie based on a book, not a work of literature itself)?
-- What comes to your mind when you think of poetry?
-- What do our six poems have in common? How are they each different?
-- Which poem is most poetic? Which is least? Why?
-- What role does performance play in poetry?
-- What role does rhyme play?
-- Which topics are off limits? why?
-- Can a poem be both poetry and prose?
-- If you are familiar with spoken word, compare some performances with one of our poems, especially Coleman Barks' translation.
-- Compare Alexie's poem to his short stories and prose.
See you in class! I am looking forward to reading your papers. :)
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