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frisbeeseppuku

The Pro Forma Form

Dec 10, 2006 20:59

In preparation for my directed reading (490), I need to come up with a course description (200 words? not long), a reading list (probably 6 books plus some theory), and.... an evaulation method! Man, this is harder than it sounds. How many assignments? When? What sort? Oh my. All keeping in mind that I'll have to do this stuff, later. (A fellow ( Read more... )

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shikou_mori December 11 2006, 05:04:14 UTC

It should go something like this:

showing up: 20%
contributing to self-directed discussion: 20%
essay: 20%
summary of essay 20%
reflection over coffee at length with friends, about essay: 20%
smiles are free.

frisbeeseppuku December 11 2006, 05:22:07 UTC

lmao yes. So much yes.

belle_noiseuse December 11 2006, 05:13:13 UTC

A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart is a Toronto/Prince Edward County novel that is so absolutely about sense of place that you should read it if you have time to inform the rest of your work even if you can't fit it in. Also it is beautiful.

Urquhart is a poet before a novelist too, but doesn't write poemessays like Anne Michaels, I promise!

frisbeeseppuku December 11 2006, 05:19:22 UTC

I'm beginning to think I might tolerate (nay, even like?!) Fugitive Pieces if I were to read it again. Also all of that geography/meteorology... mighty tempting. Shall check out Urquhart!

belle_noiseuse December 11 2006, 05:41:04 UTC

I talked to [frankdeluxe] about it at some length and he suggested that it is a lot nicer to read if you think of it like an essay and not a novel. None of its protagonists are really sympathetic at all (though their various girlfriends are) and mostly it's a front for a soapbox rant. A pretty one, but still.

Urquhart was the keynote speaker at the SK book awards this year and she talked pretty much only about "sense of place". I get the feeling that the theme is shot through everything she's ever written.

frisbeeseppuku December 11 2006, 05:46:19 UTC

Yeah, I think reading it specifically for place stuff instead of for novel quality might make it a lot more stomacheable and/or useful.

That sounds most excellent, I will definitely check her out! I am trying also to decide whether to focus on those really hit-you-over-the-head I-care-about-the-landscape books, or do more subtle not-really-thinking-about-the-landscape-but-it-is-important-somehow books. Either way, sounds like I should read Urquhart... at least her speech from the SK book awards! How was it this year?

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Prairie serblett December 11 2006, 17:17:03 UTC

I really reccommend "Who Has Seen the Wind" by W.O. Mostly because I enjoyed it so much, but I think it would be relevant too. And it isn't that long :P

Re: Prairie frisbeeseppuku December 12 2006, 18:53:59 UTC

Sweet, I will check it out. Would you say it's "typical prairie fiction"?

Uninformed serblett December 13 2006, 02:28:20 UTC

Well, I haven't read much prairie fiction (other than the Stone Angel, and let's not talk about that) so I will say an emphatic yes. Absolutely.

Re: Uninformed frisbeeseppuku December 13 2006, 08:37:11 UTC

Ok cool! (Man I thought everyone knew the whole dreary depression prairie fiction in which the landscape dominates all characters stereotype!!! =)

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