{"id":3323,"date":"2017-10-17T02:41:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2017-10-17T02:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T02:41:40","slug":"preliminary-readings-harryette-mullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/10\/17\/preliminary-readings-harryette-mullen\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Readings \u2014 Harryette Mullen"},"content":{"rendered":"

from\u00a0Sleeping With the Dictionary<\/em>:<\/p>\n

All She Wrote<\/a><\/p>\n

Any Lit<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Nikes<\/a><\/p>\n

Elliptical<\/a><\/p>\n

Coo\/Slur (not online; will be scanned and uploaded to course page as pdf)<\/p>\n

Sleeping With the Dictionary<\/a><\/p>\n

Souvenir from Anywhere<\/a>\u00a0(link is audio only; will also be scanned)<\/p>\n

Why You and I (will also be scanned)<\/p>\n

Essays:<\/p>\n

Poetry and Identity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Telegraphs from a Distracted Sybil<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Optional reading:<\/p>\n

Mullen’s essay “Writing to the Unimagined Reader<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Eric Liu’s article for the Atlantic, “What Every American Should Know<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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Prep Page Part A: Close read a poem.<\/p>\n

Prep Page Part B: Respond to one of these questions.<\/p>\n

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  1. Pick a poem and a short essay and put them in conversation. What do you as a reader gain from Mullen’s insights on her writing? Do these poems support or contradict the categorizations she describes in “Poetry and Identity”?<\/li>\n
  2. Which do you find more of in these poems \u2014 a speaker or a subject? Are you more sympathetic to the speakers or the subjects?<\/li>\n
  3. Which of these poems would you take with you to a desert island? Why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please post these prep pages in a response on the class website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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