Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Class yesterday

Just to confirm: next week, we will NOT have any additional readings. We'll discuss Tender is the Night in light of all the issues we've been discussing.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Change in assignment for next week

Next week, you don't need to read See's essay; instead, we'll reread and discuss the Scholes and Huyssen essays that were assigned earlier in the semester. We will also discuss the de Certeau and Horkheimer & Adorno essays.

The Dudley Randall poem read in class yesterday is here.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Information on Hemingway

The information from the PowerPoint presentation on Hemingway is available at
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/engl573/modernism/Hemingway.ppt . The material we talked about in class starts on Slide 6.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Links from Tuesday's class

At the beginning of Tuesday's class, we talked about a number of ways to find calls for papers. Here are some of the links discussed:

1. The CFP page at the University of Pennsylvania. http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/ This is a searchable site, but if you use an RSS feed reader, you can also subscribe to the areas that interest you and receive those calls for papers automatically.

2. There are lots of RSS feed readers available, but a good one to start with is Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/. If you already have a Gmail account, log into your Gmail and you'll see a link for "Reader" at the top left. You can subscribe to any site that publishes an RSS feed by clicking on the little orange square. (For example, you could get the updates from our blog by clicking on the orange square.)

3. Although it wasn't mentioned in class, you can also subscribe to the RSS feed of tables of contents of journals in this way. A few possibilities are American Literature and American Literary History

4. Here are some of the other sites with calls for papers:

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Resources mentioned in class

Some of you already use Google Scholar in addition to the MLA Bibliography (in Ebsco) and other resources. If you want to access the materials that you find in Google Scholar, or at least the ones that WSU has, you need to enter it through the WSU link and sign in. This is only true if you're searching from off-campus; if you're on campus, you don't need to click on this link: http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2097/

You can also find the link here:
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jourbib.htm. This page will be updated with call numbers and links.

Books on Sherwood Anderson

The book on new approaches to Sherwood Anderson that I mentioned in class is Robert Dunne's A New Book of the Grotesques. You can get it through Summit; it's not available yet in our library. Walter Rideout's bibliography is available in the library, however (PS3501.N4 Z773 2006 v.1), as is Mark Whalan's Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer. 

Tuesday, September 7, 2010