Ted Hughes Ovid PDF 75: How the Poet Adapted the Classical Myths

Texts: Sonia Nieto, Language, Culture, and Teaching, Language, Culture, and Teaching Series, 3rd ed. (Routledge); Michael Agar, Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation (William Morrow); Allison Skerrett, Teaching Transnational Youth: Literacy and Education in a Changing World (Teachers College); Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times, eds. Rahat Zaidi and Jennifer Rowsell (Routledge). Additional readings will be provided during the session.

This workshop will focus on the craft of fiction through examination of student work, analysis of exemplary published works of fiction, and completion of exercises spotlighting such aspects of craft as characterization, plot, narrative voice, dialogue, and description. Students will be expected to share works in progress, provide constructive criticism to their fellow writers, generate new work in response to exercises and prompts, and complete reading assignments which will be provided by the instructors. This course will be taught in two 3-week modules, one run by Rebecca Makkai and the other by Susan Choi.

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In writing memoir, we are telling stories from our lives. But how do we decide which ones to tell? And why should anyone care? In this workshop, students will practice the art of telling stories to the page and begin to develop their storytelling voices. Through class exercises they will learn how to generate and organize story ideas, retrieve memories, find thematic threads, and use sensory language and narrative strategies. Readings from successful memoirs will provide examples of strong voices, the possibilities of form, the struggle for meaning, and how creative storytelling and truth intersect. Students will write in response to exercises and prompts, share work, and provide constructive criticism to fellow writers.

This course will introduce students to the wyrd and wonderful world of Old English literature. Our main focus will be on the first poetic masterpiece in English, the epic Beowulf, but we will also read a selection of shorter poems, including passionate songs of love and loss, intense dream visions, bawdy and obscene riddles, and strange charms contained in manuscripts such as the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book. In these remarkable, often enigmatic poems, the heroic traditions of the Germanic tribes merge with Christian-Latin learning, pagan kings speak with the wisdom of the Old Testament patriarchs, Woden rubs shoulders with Christ, a lowly cowherd receives the gift of poetry from God, and a talking tree provides an eyewitness account of the Crucifixion. Texts will be studied both in translation and, after some basic training, in the original Old English.

Texts: Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982, Crossing Press); David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives (1992, Vintage); Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006, Mariner Books); Derek Jarman, Modern Nature (1991, Vintage); Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017, Vintage). Other readings will be provided through PDFs and short-loan library access.

Decolonization ruptures into the topography of meaning-making where Western Greco-Latin literacies have long buried Other patterns of thinking, sensing, and being mapped across epistemic colonial differences. Our approaches to literacy and decolonization are necessarily diverse and incorporate a range of projects including the de-linking of rationality from coloniality, re-linking, and affirming sustainable literacies that honor the memories we carry in our bodies. As writers and literacy practitioners committed to decolonial options, our tutorial will aim to (1) provide methods of representation from Other cultural and epistemic frameworks, (2) better understand the ways decolonial literacies might work to disrupt normative structures, and (3) contribute to a pluriverse of educational possibilities. Our inquiry is informed by a geo- and body-politics of knowledge and understanding, with the goal of pluriversality as a necessary corrective to Eurocentric universals. (This course carries one unit of Group 1 credit and one unit of Group 5 credit.)

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