Week 3: Into the Information Commons

In class

• Library Tour (physical and virtual) with Breanne Crumpton
  • Class meets in Belk Library room 024.
  • Tour, exploration, discussion of library resources.
• Discussion of Formalism, New Criticism, Reader's Response Criticism
  • Key concepts & practices
  • "[Because I could not stop for Death]" by Emily Dickinson
  • "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

Assignments

• Readings:
  • Planned Obsolescence (1-120)
  • Structuralism:
    • Ferdinand de Saussure (956)
    • Roman Jacobson (1254)
    • Tzvetan Todorov (2097)
  • Deconstruction:
    • Jacques Derrida (1815)
• Writing Assignment:
  • Write a 1-2 page summary of the key concepts proposed by DeSaussure, Jacobson, Todorov, and Derrida. Due on Tuesday, September 7 in Google Classroom.
  • Have a conversation in Google Classroom about the ideas proposed by Kathleen Kirkpatrick in Planned Obsolescence (I will pose it as a question assignment). Make an original contribution and respond to at least two classmates before class on Thursday, September 9.