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Fall 2002

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World Literature and Cultural Studies

[LTWL-106] [LTWL-132A]

106. Literacy and the Coming of the Book

Instructor: Jody Greene
TTh 12:00-1:45
Kresge 327

Course Description:

What difference in world history do books make? Topics in the history of literary institutions, including the production, distribution, and reception of printed works. The transition from manuscript to print. The history of reading. The end of the book?

Required Texts:

A Course Packet is required, containing selections from:

Course Requirements:

  1. Attendance at all classes is mandatory. Missing more than one class will result in extra writing bring assigned; missing more than three classes will result in failure.
  2. Participation in class discussion will count for 25% of your grade. This class will be conducted as a seminar, and failure to participate in seminar discussions will lead to significant lowering of your grade.
  3. Presentations will count for 15% of your grade. Each student will present at least one of the readings and will hand in a 2-page paper accompanying the readings. Presentations should be no more than five (5) minutes and should serve to introduce the material and raise a couple of questions.
  4. Each student will write two 5-page papers which together will count for 40% of the grade. Topics will be assigned in advance.
  5. Students will complete a Take-Home Final due on the Monday after the last day of classes. The final exam will count for 20% of the grade.

Weekly Schedule

Week Zero: Introduction

9.21 Th: Introduction and Orientation to the Course

Week One: Writing

9.24 T: Martin, "Writing Systems" 1-42
BHR Ong, "Orality and Literacy," 105-117
BB Griaule, "Conversations with Ogotemmêli," 346

9.26 Th: Martin, "The Written and the Spoken Word," 43-73
BB Nezahualcoyotl, "The Painted Book," 249-250
BB Munn, "Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet," 251-256
BB Munn, "Guruwari Designs," 279-285
BB Billeter, "Chinese Art of Writing," 290-310

Week Two: The Book Before Print

10.1 T: Martin, "Speech and Letters," 74-115
BB Borges, "The Cult of Books," 347-350
BB Bernstein, "The Art of Immemorability," 504-517

10.3 Th: Martin, "Death and Resurrection of Written Culture," 116-181
**CP Thomas, "Manuscripts"
Viewing Questions Distributed

Weekend Two and a half: ***** View "The Name of the Rose" *****

Week Three: The Bodies of the Book

10.8 T: "The Name of the Rose"
Hand in Viewing Questions
Paper Topics Handed Out

10.10 Th: Martin, "The Arrival of Print," 182-232
BHR Muller, "The Body of the Book," 143-150
BB Smith, "The Book as Physical Object," 54-70

Week Four: The Coming of the Book

10.15 T: **CP Febvre and Martin, "The Coming of the Book," 29-76
BHR Eisenstein, "Defining the Initial Shift," 151-173

10.17 Th: Martin, "The Reign of the Book," 233-282
BHR Johns, "The Book of Nature," 59-76

Week Five: The World and the Book

10.22 T: BHR McKenzie, "The Sociology of a Text," 189-215
BB Young, "Notation and the Art of Reading," 25-49
BB Mignolo, "Signs and their Transmission," 351-371
Paper One Due in Class

10.24 Th: McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 1-79

Week Six: The Gutenberg Galaxy

10.29 T: McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 80-216 (selections)
10.31 Th: McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 217-279

Week Seven: Burning the Books

11.5 T: Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1-110

11.7 Th: Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 113-179
Paper Topics Handed Out

Week Eight: Some Histories of Reading

11.12 T: Manguel, A History of Reading, 1-93
BHR Chartier, "Labourers and Voyagers," 47-58
BHR Chartier, "The Practical Impact of Writing," 118-142

11.14 Th: Manguel, 94-200
BHR Monaghan, "Literacy Instruction and Gender," 297-315
BHR Flint, "Reading Practices," 316-323

Week Nine: The Past and Future of the Book

11.19 T: Manguel, 201-306
Paper Two Due in Class

11.21 Th: BB Drucker, "The Artist's Book as Idea and Form," 376-388
BB Vogler, "When a Book is Not a Book," 448-466

Week Ten: The Going of the Book, or, Beyond Writing

11.26 T: Martin, "Beyond Writing," 463-512
**CP O'Connell, Avatars of the Word, 50-91
Final Exam Distributed in Class

**Final Exams are due in my box at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday 12.4

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132A. World Cities: Paris and Cairo

Fall 2002
TTh 2-3:45
College Eight 242

Instructor: Sharon Kinoshita
301 Oakes College
sakinosh@cats.ucsc.edu

Course Description:

(Subject to change)

This course examines representations of Paris and Cairo in literature and travel narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through our focus on novels in which the cities themselves play significant roles, we will address issues such as the politics of spatial representation, space and historical change, architecture, and cultural politics. Special attention will be given to the interconnection of Paris and Cairo (and France and Egypt, more generally) in the age of colonialism and post-colonialism.

Readings (available at Baytree)

François Maspéro, Roissy Express (optional)
Diana Hacker, Rules for Writers (optional)

Requirements: 5 one-page response papers; midterm essay; final paper or project

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