READ THIS: PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS: please take these seriously: they are an important part of your participation in the class. Your job when you present is to lead the discussion on the reading for that day. You may bring in some research, but most of all, you should be very well-prepared with insights, interpretations, and questions about the reading at hand. You may want to begin by summarizing the progress of the plot represented by the excerpt assigned on that day. Then you should have passages picked out for the class to discuss. You may want to be ready, also, with the posts for the day (you can copy and paste them and print them out). The purpose of the presentation is to give more responsibility to the classmembers and de-center the discussion a little bit (although I will still chime in). Here are your assignments, mostly random. 1. Wed. 3/30 Small Things, 84-147, Eidia. 2. 4/4 Small Things, 148-225, Hannah. 3. 4/6 Small Things, ending, Anna. 4. 4/11 Ondaatje, Dan. 5. 4/13 Mukherjee, Michael. 6. 4/18 Poppies, 3-87, Karol. 7. 4/20 Poppies, 88-156, Jason. 8. 4/25 Poppies, 157-226, Joe. 9. 4/27, Poppies, 227-342, Will. 10. 5/2 Poppies, 343-446, Rachel. 11. 5/4 Poppies, finish, Jane.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Anna –Rushdie- Valentines day



I love this book. Rushdie puts a terrible amount of stuff into every line, but once you get into it you stay into it. He has an amazing way of flitting from macro view to micro view to macro view to micro. The prose is very abstract and flowery and poetic and I can tell Padma is his “device” to keep the reader anchored. I don’t mind it. Padma is the reader, the logic hungry tell me next. Rushdie is certainly the storyteller here, and the story he promises to make an epic fairytale. It seems to me to be a bit like an Indian One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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