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Cross-Genre Writing:
Contexts / Praxis



Administration Guide:



Topics:


  1. The Law & the Prophets:
    The Cross-Genre Text from Ancient Times to the Present Day

      Themes:
    1. Origins of Genre Theory
        Primary Text:
      • The Bible: from The Book of Job (c.5th century BC)
      • Critical Text:
      • Dennis Tedlock: "Towards a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability." In A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing (2000)

    2. Modern Wisdom Literature
        Primary Texts:
      • William Blake: from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
      • Robin Hyde: from The Book of Nadath (1937)

  2. The Haiku Diary:
    Techniques of Framing & Assemblage

      Themes:
    1. The Monogatari Tradition
        Primary Text:
      • Sei Shōnagon: from The Pillow Book (1002)
      • Critical Text:
      • Donald Keene: from Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries (1989)

    2. When is a Diary Not a Diary?
        Primary Texts:
      • Kathy Acker: "A Journey to the End of the Night." In Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
      • Olivia Macassey: “The Uncanny Truth about Abelard" (2002)

  3. Mockumentary:
    Fiction as Mediated Text

      Themes:
    1. The Self-Analytical Story
        Primary Text:
      • Jorge Luis Borges: “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” (1939)
      • Critical Text:
      • Michael Chabon: “Trickster in a Suit of Lights: Thoughts on the Modern Short Story” (2008)

    2. The Meaning of Meaning
        Primary Texts:
      • Martin Armstrong: "Sombrero" (1929)
      • Lydia Davis: “We Miss You: A Study of Get-Well Letters from a Class of Fourth-Graders” (2007)

  4. Faction:
    New Journalism & the Non-fiction Novel

      Themes:
    1. Gonzo & New Journalism
        Primary Text:
      • Norman Mailer: from The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History (1968)
      • Critical Text:
      • Tom Wolfe: "Introduction." In The New Journalism (1973)

    2. Creative Non-fiction & Life Writing

  5. The Verse-Novel:
    Contemporary Epic & Narrative Poems

      Themes:
    1. The Bourgeois Epic
        Primary Text:
      • Michael Ondaatje: from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970)
      • Critical Text:
      • Kathy Acker “The Invisible Universe” (1982)

    2. Story-telling & Mosaic

  6. The Poessay:
    Non-fiction as Poetry

      Themes:
    1. The Art of Abjection
        Primary Text:
      • Susan Howe: “The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” In The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993)
      • Critical Text:
      • Roland Barthes "The Pleasure of the Text" (1973)

    2. Where Now?



Individual Author Pages:


  1. Kathy Acker (1947-1997)

  2. Martin Armstrong (1882-1974)

  3. W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

  4. Roland Barthes (1915-1980)

  5. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

  6. The Bible (c.1400-400 BC / c.50-200 AD)

  7. William Blake (1757-1827)

  8. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

  9. Truman Capote (1924-1984)

  10. Anne Carson (1950- )

  11. Michael Chabon (1963- )

  12. Lydia Davis (1947- )

  13. Martin Edmond (1952- )

  14. Susan Howe (1937- )

  15. Robin Hyde (1906-1939)

  16. Lynn Jenner (1955- )

  17. Donald Keene (1922-2019)

  18. Leicester Kyle (1937-2006)

  19. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)

  20. Olivia Macassey (1975- )

  21. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

  22. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

  23. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

  24. Michael Ondaatje (1943- )

  25. Sei Shōnagon (c.966–1017)

  26. Dennis Tedlock (1939-2016)

  27. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

  28. Richard von Sturmer (1957- )

  29. Tom Wolfe (1931-2018)


Recommended Further Reading:


  1. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (1883-1885) [1 - wisdom literature]

  2. Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694): Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal. Trans. Cid Corman & Kamiake Susumu. Illustrated by Hide Oshiro. (1986) [2 - haiku diary]

  3. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977): Pale Fire (1962) [3 – fiction as mediated text]

  4. Truman Capote (1924-1984): In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (1965) [4 - non-fiction novel]

  5. W. H. Auden (1907-1973): The Orators: An English Study (1932) [5 - collage poem]

  6. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009): Tristes Tropiques (1955) [6 – poessay]


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Friday

Keene, Donald



[Donald Keene at the tomb of Basho (1953)]

Donald Keene
(
1922- )

Select Bibliography:

  1. Keene, Donald, ed. Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. 1955. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
  2. Keene, Donald, ed. Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to Present Day. An Anthology. 1956. An Evergreen Book. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960.
  3. Keene, Donald. Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from the Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 1 of 4. 1993. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
  4. Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Ear 1600-1867. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 2 of 4. 1976. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
  5. Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era – Poetry, Drama, Criticism. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 3 of 4. 1984. New York: Henry Holt, 1987.
  6. Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era – Fiction. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 4 of 4. 1993. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
  7. Keene, Donald. Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries. 1989. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
  8. Keene, Donald. Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed through Their Diaries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Homepages & Online Information:

Wikipedia entry




Thursday

Nietzsche, Friedrich



[F. Hartmann: Friedrich Nietzsche (1875)]

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(
1844-1900)

Select Bibliography:

  1. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Will to Power: A New Translation. Ed. Walter Kaufmann. Trans. Walter Kaufmann & R. J. Hollingdale. 1967. New York: Vintage Books, 1968.

  2. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner. 1872 & 1888. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.

  3. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. 1975. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

  4. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist. 1889 & 1895. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. 1968. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

  5. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. 1888. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

  6. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One. 1886. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.

  7. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One. 1883-1885. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. 1961. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.

  8. Kaufman, Walter, ed. The Portable Nietzsche. 1954. New York: The Viking Press, 1975.

  9. Nietzsche, Friedrich. A Nietzsche Reader. Ed. & Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.

Homepages & Online Information:

Wikipedia entry