 the postmodern novel |
English 1102ST Course Syllabus (for Fall 2009) Instructor: Dr. Valerie Morrison Office: 320 Park Hall, mailbox in room 254 Email: valerie6@uga.edu EMMA
(for uploading elements to your final portfolio) Portfolio Guidelines (descriptions
of the exhibits for your final portfolio) OpenOffice
3 , NeoOffice,
and Firefox (free programs
for uploading to EMMA) |
| uga resources |
| UGA resources English Department First-Year Composition Program Freshman English at UGA Course Packet UGA's Academic Honesty Policy UGA Website Hosting The Writing Center (includes many resources for writers of all levels) UGA Study Abroad programs in Oxford, England; Cortona, Italy; and Costa Rica UGA Library Main Library GIL@UGA (search for books here in our library) GIL Universal Catalog (search for books throughout Georgia) GALILEO databases GALILEO (search for journal articles) MLA Bibliography LION Project Muse Drama/Theater Subject Guide Literature Resource Center Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Academic Search Complete Note: click here for this semester's GALILEO password. |
| further resources & links |
| Grammar resources St. Martin's Handbook site (includes a list of the 20 most common writing errors) Purdue University Online Writing Lab (a great resource for student writers) Easy Bibliography (a site that puts your works cited entries in MLA format for you) Disney's Schoolhouse Rock videos on Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs, Nouns, Interjections, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Predicates, and my favorite, Pronouns Writing resources General Writing Handouts (a compilation of handouts on general writing skills) Active Verbs (a list of strong verbs to help improve your writing style) SAT Vocabulary Words (a list of 1000 words to build your vocabulary) The Top 100 Novels List (as voted by MLA, The Modern Library Association) Entertainment Weekly's New Classics (the top 100 books from 1983-2008) Language Links (links and resources to help with research and writing) The Newseum (an archive of pulitzer prize winning photographs and visual arguments) Advertisements Online (a site with many online archives of various types of ads) The Literature Network (read full novels, short stories, and poems online) Bartleby.com (another website for reading literature online for free) Critical resources Contemporary Schools of Criticism (a brief handout describing various schools) Critical Approaches to Literature (chapter describing approaches and how to apply them) Introduction to Modern Literary Theory (brief descriptions of several critical approaches) "The Postmodern Condition" essay about knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard "Post-Structuralism" chapter on postmodernism from Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory "The Death of the Author" essay about the writing hand by Roland Barthes "What Is an Author" essay about fetishizing the author by Michel Foucault "Course in General Linguistics" essay about signifier/signified by Ferdinand de Saussure Simulacra and Simulations excerpts about hyperreality by Jean Baudrillard Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection (links to critical analyses) Voice of the Shuttle (research links for all of the humanities, including literature) Historical & Contextual Information Timeline of Literary, Historical, Technological, and Cultural Developments from 1865-Present, from The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two Overview of the Contemporary Period: 1945-present, from The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume E Excerpts from Peter Barry's Beginning Theory that explain postmodern literary criticism and the differences between modernism and postmodernism A brief description of postmodernity (both in literature and in social thought) from the Afterword of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction Relevant links Literature and Culture of the American Fifties (Dr. Al Filreis' comprehensive website) The Psychedelic Sixties (a web exhibit of all things sixties from UVA) Modern & Contemporary Poetry Website (a remarkable resource from UPenn) Jackson Pollock (virtually create a Pollock painting - click to change colors) The Warholizer (upload your own photos and transform them into Warhol images) Tidying Up Art (Ursus Wehrli playfully deconstructs various modern paintings) The Photographic Dictionary (another way of thinking about language and words) Stillpoint Literary Magazine (UGA's undergraduate literary journal) Illuminations (another undergraduate journal of arts and letters) The Poetry Foundation (the multimedia web companion to Poetry Magazine) UbuWeb (an archive of experimental and procedural poetry) |
| class pictures |
| Fall 2005 - 2:00 class Spring 2006 - 12:30 class Fall 2006 - 11:15 class Spring 2007 - 2:00 class and 3:30 class Fall 2007 - 2:00 class and 3:30 class Spring 2008 - 12:30 class and 2:00 class Fall 2008 - 9:30 class and 12:20 class and 2:30 class Spring 2009 - 9:05 class and 12:30 class and 1:25 class Summer 2009 - 11:45 class Fall 2009 - 11:15 class and 1:25 class and 3:30 class Spring 2010 - 12:30 class and 2:00 class and 3:30 class Fall 2010 - 10:10 class and 12:20 class and 1:25 class |
