| Week | Date | Assignment Due (on the listed date) | |
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Unit 1: Reading Closely |
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| 1 | TH | 8/27 | Introduction & Course Description |
| 2 | T | 9/1 | Emily Carroll’s “His Face All Red” and “Margot’s Room” (http://www.emcarroll.com/ Keep in mind that some are interactive comics) |
| TH | 9/3 | Simon Morley’s “Introduction” to The Sublime (available on Canvas)
“The Gothic Novel” (available on Canvas or http://cai.ucdavis.edu/waters-sites/gothicnovel/155breport.html) |
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| 3 | T | 9/8 | BLOG POST 1: Submitted through https://occultclassics.com/
Frankenstein: Author’s (not editor’s) Introduction & Volume One |
| TH | 9/10 |
PRESENTATION 1 Frankenstein: Volume Two (Ch. I – V) |
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| 4 | T | 9/15 | Frankenstein: Volume Two (finish) |
| TH | 9/17 |
PRESENTATION 2 Frankenstein: Volume Three (Ch. I – III) |
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| Unit 2: Information Literacy | |||
| 5 | T | 9/22 | BLOG POST 2: Submitted through https://occultclassics.com/
Frankenstein: Volume Three (finish) |
| TH | 9/24 |
PRESENTATION 3 Gilbert & Gubar’s “Horror’s Twin: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve” (Canvas or http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/gilbert.html) (Paper 1 Peer Review Day. Completed draft required) |
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| 6 | T | 9/29 |
SHORT PAPER 1: Submitted through Canvas House of Leaves: Foreword and Introduction (take a close look at the cover and front flap images) |
| TH | 10/1 |
PRESENTATION 4 HoL: The Navidson Record (Ch. I-IV) Useful resource: http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/house-of-leaves/house-of-leaves-aa/2179-a-list-of-useful-threads-for-those-new-to-this-site |
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| 7 | T | 10/6 | HoL: The Navidson Record (Ch. V-IX) |
| TH | 10/8 | HoL: The Navidson Record (Ch. X) | |
| Unit 3: Finding Context | |||
| 8 | T | 10/13 |
PRESENTATION 5 HoL: Appendix II, E “The Whalestoe Letters” (use internet resources to decode) HoL: The Navidson Record (Ch. XI-XIV) |
| TH | 10/15 | HoL: The Navidson Record (Ch. XV-XVII) | |
| 9 | T | 10/20 | HoL: The Navidson Record (Finish) |
| TH | 10/22 |
PRESENTATION 6 HoL: Look through all the paratext including “Exhibits,” “Appendix I, II, and III,” etc. (how does this affect your reading of the text?) Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (Canvas) |
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| 10 | T | 10/27 | Short Paper 2 Proposal: Mandatory Conferences |
| TH | 10/29 |
PRESENTATION 7 BLOG POST 3: Submitted through https://occultclassics.com/ Visit https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep, https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/, or any other creative writing sharing subreddit; pick one submission you believe would represent our course |
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| 11 | T | 11/3 |
SHORT PAPER 2: submitted through Canvas (It Follows Day) |
| Unit 4: Putting It All Together | |||
| TH | 11/5 | Nic McCool’s {Smile} (also known as the “alphabet series” on Reddit. Read all parts)
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1z6m6s/alzheimers/ Matt Dymerski’s Portal in the Forest (read all parts) https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2m4i88/the_portal_in_the_forest/ (It Follows finale) See This File for optional nosleep recommendations |
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| 12 | T | 11/10 |
PRESENTATION 8 Frasca’s “Simulation vs Narrative” (canvas) BioShock: Play through “Welcome to Rapture,” “Medical Pavillion,” “Neptune’s Bounty” |
| TH | 11/12 |
PRESENTATION 9 BioShock: Play through “Smuggler’s Hideout,” “Arcadia” |
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| 13 | T | 11/17 | Schulzke’s “The Critical Power of Virtual Dystopias”
BioShock: Play through “Farmer’s Market” |
| TH | 11/19 |
PRESENTATION 10 BioShock: Play through “Arcadia Revisited” |
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| 14 | T | 11/24 |
OPTIONAL REVISION, Short Paper 2: Submitted through Canvas BioShock: Play through “Fort Frolic” |
| TH | 11/26 | THANKSGIVING BREAK! | |
| 15 | T | 12/1 |
PRESENTATION 11 Blog Post 4: Submitted through https://occultclassics.com/ (since this is your last post, I expect something epic!) Watch “Video Game Culture & Anarchy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTj0EGrc0o |
| TH | 12/3 | (Drafting the Final Essay Day) |
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| End | T | 12/8 | FINAL CRITICAL ESSAY: submitted through Canvas by 5pm |
