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ENG LISH 660: 002	Modernist Women Poets: Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker
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GEO RGE MAS ON UNI VER SITY	30 March: Faced with scheduling a make-up class during MFA exam season, I confess I have lost my nerve. So, we won't have a make-up day and neither you nor I will have to do double reading in any of the coming weeks. Instead, I have somewhat compressed the reading schedule for Lorine Niedecker so you won't have any new reading in the week you are finishing your Niedecker papers & anthologies. As a way of wrapping up our discussion of Niedecker, we'll base our last week's topics on your own papers. NOTE: Your papers & anthologies on Loy will be due on April 14. This is the first week of our Niedecker discussion, which makes me a bit nervous. As payback for not having to accelerate your reading in these next few weeks, and still getting this class wrapped up early in May, please try to manage your time so that you can complete your papers and complete your reading of Niedecker by the 14th. More samples of Moore papers & anthologies have been posted. Please take advantage of your peers' generosity in sharing their work with you. 26 March: I've posted Aleta's paper & Rebekah's anthology. Will post more as I receive them. Sample papers & anthologies 28 Feb: Due to snow last week, we meet this Thursday March 3 for our last discussion of Moore. We'll schedule an extra class meeting sometime after Spring Break, in a week when we can discuss the same poet (Loy or Niedecker) at both meetings. In the meantime, your two projects on Moore may be handed in this Thursday, March 3 (the original due date) or next Thursday, March 10, at your discretion. Suit your own schedule. No extensitons beyond the 10th. And don't expect to get them back until after Spring Break. 9 Feb 05: Scott sent a note reminding me about more good resources on collage, and one of them is available on line: Clement Greenberg's 1958 essay "Collage" : http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/collage.html I have looked up definitions of synthetic cubism, since Linda Leavell & Reba Elliot were both using a different understanding than the one I had. I've found some variation in the definitions, but none that proves me right! What the definitions have in common is that it grew out of collage work, restored more color to the palette, and sought to reassemble the object from materials or from abstract forms (as opposed to the breaking down of the object in analytical cubism). Here are some sites that will help: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/cubism.html http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/styles/SyntheticCubism.html http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/styles/AnalyticCubism.html http://www.tate.org.uk/imap/pages/animated/keyterms2.htm 8 Feb 05: Your syllabus page for this week says the second reading from Linda Leavell was handed out in class, but it was not. It is available at the Reserve desk: chapter 3 of her book Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts. You may read the whole chapter if you like, but you are assigned to read only through the sentence that ends at the top of page 125. 2 Feb 05: OK, I have been to the Reserves department and they have located the lost bin of books that included all of ours... They have made two photocopies of "Surfaces and Spatial Forms" , the chapter you need to read for Thursday. So those two copies and the book itself should be available between now and then, on 2 hour circulation. After this week, the photocopies will be removed (as we don't have copyright clearance to use them) and the book will go onto 3 day circulation. I also dropped off two copies of Marianne Moore's prose. All books for the course should be processed by now, if they stick to what they told me. If you go there and the books have not been processed, ask politely but firmly to talk to the head honcho, Sean (or Shawn, I don't know how he spells it). From class time on Jan 27, all changes to the web site will be noted here and all announcements to the class will be posted here. 9 Jan 05: Most of the site is now posted. Some readings are missing and the bibliography is still under construction. Due to popular demand I've posted a draft of this site before going away for winter break. You should find here the book list, detailed readings for Marianne Moore & for Mina Loy, the guidelines for written assignments, and the overall schedule. The Niedecker pages are not finished. Some links may not be working. The bibliography is incomplete. I'll be back in town and back on e-mail by the end of the first week of January. Cheers!