All essays received! I got some questions about citation for the pdf file. Don't worry about it for now. I won't count this against you in anyway.
Thanks for a great year. Go have fun!
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
The Final Exam: Making Space
Choose ONE
of the following topics for your final essay:
1- William
Gass wrote a fascinating essay about Invisible
Cites (posted here). According to him it is a re-interpretation
of Dante’s Inferno, which directly
relates to the descending order of Invisible
Cities. Read the essay, then refute his thesis as best as possible.
2- Where do
the Trafalmadorians from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
belong in Invisible Cities? Why?
3- Take any
dystopia from the summer reading. Compare this city with any other series of
cities (i.e, “Cities and Memory”) both literally and figuratively. What does
this comparison reveal about the essence of this dystopia?
4- Apply
Richard Dawkin’s concept of meme to Invisible
Cities. (Keep in mind the progressive structure of the novel.)
5- Compare
one scene from the film Waking Life with any two cities from Invisible Cities (here’s its rating and the explanation behind it). You must include two screen shots
that you closely analyze in terms of composition. Do your best to explain why
this comparison is valid and what it reveals about the experience of living.
6- Which
cities best exemplify Dr. Pangloss’ “best of all possible worlds” theory?
Explain.
Your paper
should be between two and three pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point
font. See rubric on Standard Score. Your essays must be turned in via
turnitin.com by noon tomorrow. Grades will be posted sometime next week.
For any
further questions e-mail me at jtangen@cng.edu.
Now, go make some “space” (Calvino, 142).
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
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