Introductions
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1/13 Introductions |
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1/20 Borges - Ficciones (3-142) Genette - "Introduction to the Paratext" Balderston - "Fictions" (HO) |
Links Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges, The Art of Fiction No. 39 |
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1/27 Cortázar - Hopscotch (1/3) Barth - Lit of Exhaustion (HO) |
Links Julio Cortázar, The Art of Fiction No. 83 |
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2/3 Cortázar - Hopscotch (2/3) E.L. Doctorow - "False Documents" (HO) Dixon - "Milk Is Very Good for You" (HO) |
Links Doctorow Obit (NYT) |
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2/10 Cortázar - Hopscotch (3/3) Aarseth - Ergodic Literature (HO) Simpkins - "'The Infinite Game': Cortázar's Hopscotch" |
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2/17 Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (3-254) Barthes - "Death of the Author" (HO) Fish - "How to Recognize a Poem" (HO) |
Links Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 |
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2/24 Danielewski - House of Leaves (xi-245) Freud - "The Uncanny" |
Links Danielewski Entry (ECWTW) Exploration Z McCaffery & Gregory - "Haunted House" |
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3/2 Danielewski - House of Leaves (246-490)> Hayles + Montfort - "Interactive Fiction" (HO) |
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3/9 Danielewski - House of Leaves (491-709) Hayles - "Saving the Subject" FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNED |
Links Hamilton - "The A-Mazing House" Hansen - "Digital Topography of MZD's HOL" |
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3/16 NO CLASS - Spring Break |
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3/23 Tomasula - VAS: An Opera in Flatland (1-370) Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
Links stevetomasula.com Flatland (audio recording) |
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3/30 Thirlwell - Kapow! (1-81) Tomasula - "An Apology for Postmodern Prose" Bray - "Concrete Poetry" (HO) |
Links Visual Editions |
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4/6 Eggers - A.H.W.O.S.G. (all prefatory material, 1-237) |
Links AHWOSG Entry (ECWTW) |
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4/13 Eggers - A.H.W.O.S.G. (239-437) Eggers - "M.W.K.W.W.M" (HO) |
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4/20 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #16 |
Links McSweeneys.net "The McSweeney's Store" 826 Valencia | 826 Valencia Store |
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4/27 Unferth - Vacation (1-215) |
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5/4 FINAL PROJECT DUE |
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