Charlie Bertsch's English 596L, Spring 2004

This Week

I'm assuming that you all have managed to do the readings for this week. If anyone has a response ready early, please send it my way. I think I'm going to quote from some responses on the weblog this week. That might be one way of getting the comments rolling again.

Reading for Next Week

I want us to have a broader perspective on issues of historical representation as we prepare to discuss Alamanac of the Dead and continue processing Libra, Artificial Respiration, Beloved, and 100 Years of Solitude.

Two of the links I've just added take you to an issue of a journal. You can decide which articles within those issues merit your close attention or perhaps track down other articles in different issues of those journals. I'd like you to be generally familiar with both the issues I've linked to and to have thought about what the journals in question seem to be striving for.

The other two articles are quite different from each other, both in subject matter and disciplinary perspective. As you read them, try to keep mental, paper, or electronic notes on methodological questions that strike you as significant, as well as the usual matters of interest such as "postmodernism" and "historiography."

Also, if you can find it in your heart to post responses to the issues or individual articles, I will be most grateful.