Week 1
W 1.9 – First Day of Class
Homework: Read Peter Stallybrass’s “Books and Scrolls” and Adrian Johns’s “Introduction” in The Nature of the Book (sakai)
Week 2
M 1.14 scrolls & the nature of the book
Homework: Elizabeth Eisenstein’s Preface & Intro The Printing Press as an Agent of the Change
W 1.16 Printing Press, MS Culture, and the receptions and realities of print culture
Homework: Read Poe’s “The Man of The Crowd” & Kevin Haye’s “Visual Culture and the Word in Poe’s The Man of the Crowd”
Week 3
M 1.21 MLK DAY
W 1.23 Poe’s Man of the Crowd – newspapers, cities, and print culture
Homework: Read Melville’s Pierre, books I-VI (~150 pages)
Week 4
M 1.28 1850s Print Culture
Homework: Read Melville’s Pierre, books VII-VIII (~50 pages)
W 1.30 Melville and His World
Homework: Read Melville’s Pierre, books IX-XVI (~150 pages)
First Podcast Due
Week 5
M 2.4 Pierre, Publishing, and Print Markets
Homework: Read Melville’s Pierre, books XVII-XX (~50 pages)
W 2.6 Melville’s Ambiguities
Homework: Read Melville’s Pierre, books XXI-END (~75 pages) + O’Brien’s “Our Young Authors”
Week 6
M 2.11 Melville and his critics
Homework: Watch the film short, The Eagleman Stag: https://vimeo.com/41756240 Snooze Time: https://vimeo.com/67614238 and Cargo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gryenlQKTbE
W 2.13 – Print Culture and the Culture of Reprinting
Homework: Listen to The Night Circus Part I & II
First Review Due Sunday February 17, 2019
Week 7
M 2.18 – The Night Circus
Homework: Listen to The Night Circus Part III
W 2.20 The Night Circus
Homework: Listen to The Night Circus Part IV & V (to the end)
Week 8
M 2.25 The Night Circus
Homework: Read Listening to Audiobooks is Just as Good as Reading and The Rise of Speed Listening
W 2.27 Audiobooks as Literature
Homework: Watch The OA (1-5 episodes)
Week 9
M 3.4 The OA
Homework: The OA (finish it)
W 3.6 The OA
Homework: TBD
Second Review Due
Week 10
M 3.11 SPRING BREAK
W 3.13 SPRING BREAK
F 3.15 SPRING BREAK
Week 11
M 3.18 Binging, The OA, & Netflix Culture
Homework: Stranger Than Fiction – Screenplay (start reading – available on sakai) See also HOW TO READ A SCREENPLAY
W 3.20 Stranger than Fiction
Homework: Stranger Than Fiction (finish it!)
Second Podcast Due
Week 12
M 3.25 Stranger than Fiction
Homework: Listen to Brian Reed’s S-Town Chapters I & II
W 3.27 Podcasting and S-Town as Literature
Homework: Listen to Brian Reed’s S-Town Chapters III-VII
Week 13
M 4.1 S-Town and Storytelling
Homework: Watch episodes 1-3 of Russian Doll
W 4.3 Storytelling in the Digital Age (guest?)
Homework: Watch episodes 4-7 of Russian Doll
Third Review Due
Week 14
M 4.8 Russian Doll AND Looping Narratives
Homework: Literary Gaming Reading: Jesper Juul’s “Games Telling Stories: A Brief Note on Games and Narratives”
W 4.10 Literary Gaming
Homework: Play Life is Strange Episode 1 & 2
Questus Libris Due
Week 15
M 4.15 – Life is Strange and Literary Gaming
Homework: Play Life is Strange Episode 3
W 4.17 – Literary Gaming
Homework: Play Life is Strange Episode 4 & 5
F 4.19 GOOD FRIDAY
Final Podcast Due
Week 16
M 4.22 – Literary Gaming
Homework: TBD
W 4.24 LAST DAY OF THIS CLASS
F 4.26 LAST DAY OF CLASSES
Final Project Due
Week 17
M 4.29 FINAL EXAM 4PM (Full Exam Schedule)