A brief peroration on Invisible Man, then on to the beginning of Whitman's  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"  via syllables in Dickinson ("syllable from sound") and Stevens ("clickering syllables") and the Whitman entry in Pinsky's My Favorite Poem project.

A brief peroration on Invisible Man, then on to the beginning of Whitman's  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"  via syllables in Dickinson ("syllable from sound") and Stevens ("clickering syllables") and the Whitman entry in Pinsky's My Favorite Poem project.

A quick tour through several Dickinson poems, including "I started early," to which we'll return briefly.  Some noting (and a lot of not-noting) of echoes and congruences with Emerson's vocabulary: "Austere," e.g. and attitudes towards snow.  Next class we'll return to "The Brain is wider than the sky" as a way into Whitman and by way of contrast to Stevens' Comedian.

A quick tour through several Dickinson poems, including "I started early," to which we'll return briefly.  Some noting (and a lot of not-noting) of echoes and congruences with Emerson's vocabulary: "Austere," e.g. and attitudes towards snow.  Next class we'll return to "The Brain is wider than the sky" as a way into Whitman and by way of contrast to Stevens' Comedian.

A quick catchup on major issues we couldn't or didn't really consider in The Aspern Papers, Mrs. Dalloway, and "The Dead."  Death and parties.  Then onwards to Dickinson, in particular to "The brain is wider than the sky" (dashes suppressed) as a way into Emerson and the Divinity School Address, TK.

A quick catchup on major issues we couldn't or didn't really consider in The Aspern Papers, Mrs. Dalloway, and "The Dead."  Death and parties.  Then onwards to Dickinson, in particular to "The brain is wider than the sky" (dashes suppressed) as a way into Emerson and the Divinity School Address, TK.

A class that was supposed to be about "The Dead" but wasn't really: more about truth in fiction, the difference, gulf, and interface between the fictional world and our world.  First person narratives and the little they guarantee.  The difference and interface between narrating narrator and narrated narrator, and its parallel in the third person narrator of FID and the point of view narrated.  The first sentence of "The Dead."

A class that was supposed to be about "The Dead" but wasn't really: more about truth in fiction, the difference, gulf, and interface between the fictional world and our world.  First person narratives and the little they guarantee.  The difference and interface between narrating narrator and narrated narrator, and its parallel in the third person narrator of FID and the point of view narrated.  The first sentence of "The Dead."

Some context in Byron and Shelley.  Claire Claremont (Miss Juliana) as a survival from another world.  Things we don't know: narrator's name; content of the papers.  A little bit about things that don't exist at all: his assumed name, or (it would be better to say, though I didn't) the difference between his false and real name.  I didn't get nearly as far as I would have wanted to here.

Some context in Byron and Shelley.  Claire Claremont (Miss Juliana) as a survival from another world.  Things we don't know: narrator's name; content of the papers.  A little bit about things that don't exist at all: his assumed name, or (it would be better to say, though I didn't) the difference between his false and real name.  I didn't get nearly as far as I would have wanted to here.