ENG 579: Avant-Garde Literature & Writing

Tentative Schedule

Semester Overview

WEEK ONE: Sept 1

Tues: Introductions

WEEK TWO: Sept. 8

Tues: Revolution Of The Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914-1945

Pre-face xi-xxv; Acknowledgements xxvi-xxvii;

Preliminaries:

Walter Conrad Arensberg (3-8);

Marcel Duchamp (24-34);

Else von Freytag-Loringhoven (37-47)

WEEK THREE: Sept. 15

Tues: Revolution Of The Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914-1945

Gertrude Stein (89-105)

William Carlos Williams (109-115)

Jackson Mac Low (171-176)

WEEK FOUR: Sept. 22

Tues: Creative Reading

WEEK FIVE: Sept. 29

Tues: Creative Reading

WEEK SIX: Oct. 6

Tues: The Tapeworm Foundry: andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination

WEEK SEVEN: Oct. 13

Tues: Eunoia

WEEK EIGHT: Oct. 20

Tues: Your Country Is Great: Afghanistan-Guyana

WEEK NINE: Oct 27

Tues: Oulipo Compendium

WEEK TEN: Nov. 3

Tues: Recyclopedia: read S*PeRM**K*T

WEEK ELEVEN: Nov. 10

Tues: No Class! Swine Flu!

WEEK TWELVE: Nov. 17

Tues: Recyclopedia: read Muse & Drudge

WEEK THIRTEEN: Nov. 24

Tuesday: Furlough Day: No Class

WEEK FOURTEEN: Dec. 1

Tuesday: Folly *WE ARE HAVING CLASS TODAY! DON'T MISS IT!*

WEEK FIFTEEN: Dec. 8

Tues: Discuss Portfolio / Readings to be Announced

WEEK SIXTEEN: FINAL EXAM WEEK: Portfolio Due on Exam Day