Class3notes

Preliminary Class Business

"Response" Assignments
- Review schedule of respondents during Classes 3-8
- Questions about respondent assignment?

Create Your Bio by Class 5
- Example of class bios from Spring 2006 English 194
- Blank bio pages with templates (see Class Members page)
- Uploading images

Example of a "Place" in Literature
- William Wordsworth's Lake District
- "Place" Projects from English 197, "Wordsworth and Romanticism"

Other Places in Literature
- What are examples of other authors or works of literature in which place is important?
- Can you think of genres of literature in which place is important?

The Meaning of Place
- Wordsworth's Poems on the Naming of Places, e.g., "To M. H."
- Hemingway, "Big Two-Hearted River":
  Already there was something mysterious and homelike. Nick was happy as he crawled inside the tent. He had not been unhappy all day. This was different though. Now things were done. There had been this to do. Now it was done. It had been a hard trip. He was very tired. That was done. He had made his camp. He was settled. Nothing could touch him. It was a good place to camp. He was there, in the good place. He was in his home where he had made it.
- Andy Goldsworthy
  - Artworks
  - Introduction to A Collaboration with Nature
- What is a "place" as opposed, for example, to "space"?
- (Moretti, p. 37): Are "places" always "circular" in the way we experience them?
  - Cf. Reza's Question: "Why do village stories arrange themselves in a circular pattern?"
- What breaks up the circularity of place?
  - Cf. Reza's question: "Would such a theory hold true in an urban, city-like scene similar to LA, I.V., etc.?"

Modern Spaces
- Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. John Howe (London: Verso, 1995) [orig. pub. in French, 1992] (book cover)
- Margaret Morse, "An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television," in Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism, ed. Patricia Mellencamp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 193-221

(Moretti, pp. 35, 53)
- Reza's Questions: "Is a map necessary to do or see this?" "In your opinion do maps actually enhance our understanding of literary texts?"
- (Moretti, p. 63): What is the relation between mapping and imagining?