From Scroll to Screen
ENGL 165SS - Spring 2002, Carol Braun Pasternack
Oral Storytelling
Tue, 4/2
Oral Performance
Introduction to course, to oral composition, and to Storyteller. Running on the Edge of the Rainbow video.
Thu, 4/4
Orality and the Community
Readings Due:Storyteller. Prefatory pages and 1-42. Silko, “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective.” Langen, “Storyteller as Hopi Basket.”
Tue, 4/9
Retelling tales: Tradition and Change
Readings Due:Storyteller 43-98, 110-70. Allen, “Kochinnenako in Academe.”
Thu, 4/11
“The Sacred Hoop.”
Readings Due:Storyteller 197-265. Toelken, “Life and Death in the Coyote Tales.”
Readings Due: Explore apparatus of your bible and read introductory material. Read Genesis 1-24; Exodus 1-4.23, 13.17-15.25, 19-21, 24-25.9, 31.18-35.19; Deuteronomy 29-31. Holdrege, selections from Veda and Torah.
Rabbi Stephen Cohen will show us the Torah scrolls, explaining customs for their production and use.
Readings Due:“Scroll of the Law” and “Ezra”. In your bible, Jeremiah 1-2, 18-20.6, 26-31, 36-40.5, 52; Ezra 1-6; Nehemiah 1-2, 7-10.
Manuscript Codices
Thu, 4/25
The Illuminated Codex
Many things to do today. Here's my priority list. We will talk about "Voice to Text" productions. We will discuss the readings in Jeremiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah assigned for last Tuesday when we went to Hillel. We will briefly highlight certain aspects of DeHamel's discussion of scribes and illuminators, Psalms, and Books of Hours in preparation for our visit to the Getty. Our discussion of Psalms and Books of Hours will continue next Tuesday in conjunction with that day's reading assignments. We will settle the matter of rides to the Getty. If you are someone who needs and ride and because of some act of God cannot make it to class today, be sure to contact me beforehand.
Readings Due: De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators. Psalms, focusing on 6 ("Oh Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger"), 37/38 ("Oh Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger"), 50/51 ("Have mercy on me, O God") (penitential psalms that appear in Books of Hours), as well as 1, 52 ("Why do you boast, oh might one"), 68 ("Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered"), 80 ("Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel"), 95 ("Oh come, let us sing to the Lord"), and 150 ("Praise the Lord!"). (Note that after Psalm 9, numbering may differ by 1 between bibles; see the annotation at Psalm 9 in our Oxford text.) White, “Books of Hours, and the Bridwell Hours” http://fllc.smu.edu/latin/advent2000/bridwell/bridwell1.htmlAlso see
http://www.cyberpsalter.org/sitemaptext.htm
Trip to Getty Museum to see "A Treasury of 15th-Century Manuscript Illumination" and a special presentation on "The Making of the Medieval Book." Presentations by curators Elizabeth Teviotdale and Nancy Turner.
Professor Cynthia Brown visits, presentation on Anne of Brittany and her library.
Readings Due: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, Forward and Introduction, Part One, through ch. 38, and organization of book. McGrady, “What is a Patron? Benefactors and Authorship in Harley 4431. . . . ”
Recommended Readings: Recommended: Brown, “The Reconstruction of the Author in Print”; Laidlaw, “Christine and the Manuscript Tradition”; Margolis, “Modern Editions: Makers of the Christinian Corpus.” (All on Reserve)
Thu, 5/9
Mouvance
Readings Due: Christine, City of Ladies, Part Two, ch. 36, 47-50 (Compare Griselda’s story to Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale” if you’ve read the Canterbury Tales), 53-55, (68), 69, 3.1-2,9-10, 19. Boccaccio, Famous Women, Chs. I, “Eve, Our First Mother”; II, “Semiramis, Queen of the Assyrians”; XXXVIII, “Circe, Daughter of the Sun”; Ch. XLII, “Dido or Elisa, Queen of Carthage.”
(Courtesy of David Cornfield, homepage, last revised 3/8/2002, accessed 5/14/2002.)
Readings Due:Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. Selections of The Tatler and The Spectator.
Jon P. Klancher, “Cultural Conflict, Ideology, and the Reading Habit in the 1790s.”
Thu, 5/16
The Printing Man
At the Franklin Insitute, you can find a photo of a replica of Franklin's printing press.
Readings Due: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Part I (pp. 1-53)
David D. Hall, “Introduction: Part 1. Some Contexts and Questions, Part 2. The Europeans’ Encounter with the Native Americans.” The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World.
Terence Harpold, “The Contingencies of the Hypertext Link.”
Thu, 5/30
Technologies of the Library
University Librarian, Sarah Pritchard will visit to talk about the Library of Congress and libraries past and present, including the University Library.
Readings Due:Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel.”
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We will talk about "Voice to Text" productions.