News

Hey, everyone. From now on, I'll be putting announcements on this page having to do with course requirements, changes in these web pages, and other matters. I recommend looking here every time you visit the course pages--at least once a week.

2/16/99

I've revised the schedule of assignments and added short pages on each of the components that make up the course requirements. Check it out when you get a chance!

Also, don't forget to ask questions in your reading responses. These are as significant as your observations, not least because they're practice runs for your annotated bibliography and seminar paper.

2/10/99

Please be in the habit of reading and perhaps printing off the revisions to the schedule of assignments for the course, which can be found on the main course web page. As we get closer to reading the pairs of novels, I've been thinking about changing the order of texts--not always beginning with Hawthorne and moving on to Morrison. Thus, I've revised the syllabus so that at the end of the semester we read Beloved before we read The Scarlet Letter. I'm interested in hearing ideas about perhaps reading one pair of novels concurrently (perhaps The Blithedale Romance and Paradise). Would this be confusing? Interesting? Useful? Please post to the listserv your thoughts on this idea when you get a chance.

2/2/99

Slowly but surely, the web pages for the course are rounding into shape. I've put up a "people page" so that we all have each other's contact information. There are many gaps in the page as it stands; please email me information you find relevant. And if you have personal web pages, you can send me their address so that I can make a link to them from your name. Finally, I'd like to post to the web your first research project (the annotated biblio/web-ography) when it is complete, and the people page is as good a place as any to put links to it. So as you get closer to formulating your research question (you might start by laying out possible areas of interest), you might consider giving me material to put up on your page. That way, your classmates will know what you're working on and can give feedback.

I'm about to put up a very sketchy "links page" that I expect all of you to give me suggestions for revising. This page will be our gateway to the web resources on Hawthorne, Morrison, race and American literature, and any other interests in the course. It will evolve as the course evolves.

Next step is to put up a "topics page," so that we have some record of where we've been in discussion and what the major issues and concerns of the listserv have been. Expect that one later in the week.

EN 510: Major Writers, Spring 1999
Created: 2/2/99, 2:41 pm
Last modified: 2/16/99, 10:32 am