The production of knowledge is the academy's very reason for being, and if we cling to an outdated system for establishing and measuring authority while the nature of authority is shifting around us, we run the risk of becoming increasingly irrelevant to contemporary culture's dominant ways of knowing.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence, pg. 17
In class
- Meet our Visiting Assistant Professors (VAPs)
- Discussion of Planned Obsolescence, peer review, libraries, and alternative sources for research.
- Encyclopedia Britannica vs Wikipedia
- Humanities Commons
- CAS Statement on the definition of Peer Review
- bp Nichol "The Complete Works"
- Copyright, Creative Commons, Open Access, Public Domain
- Predatory Publishers, Piracy
- Discussion of Structuralism and Deconstruction
- Saussure and the linguistic sign
- "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
- Todorov and narratology
- Jacobson's communication model and the poetic function of language
- Derrida, Deconstruction, and Post Structuralism
- "Marks" by Linda Pastan
- Saussure and the linguistic sign
Assignments
Readings:
- G. Thomas Tanselle "The Nature of Texts"
- Jerome McGann "The Socialization of Texts"
- Peter Shillingsburg "Text as Communication"
- Robin G. Shulze "How Not to Edit: The Case of Marianne Moore"
- Gunther Kress "Multimodality: Challenges to Thinking about Language"
Exploration:
Writing:
- Write a 1-2 page summary of the key concepts proposed in the readings. Due on Tuesday, September 14 in Google Classroom.
- Have a conversation in Google Classroom about what editorial decisions you would make if you were to publish some of the poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, or William Blake. Make an original contribution and respond to at least two classmates before class on Thursday, September 16.