Thursday, January 22, 2015

some background info onTocqueville

Review of Tocqueville:  http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2010-fall/selections/despite-my-bunkered-heart-khaled-mattawas-tocqueville/




Info on Tocqueville the history/writer and Mattawa’s Book
(you can click on or copy/paste these links to get more info on some ideas from which Mattawa draws ideas for Tocqueville… you might also google some of the sources from the notes section of the book –p68/69—for more info and insight… nonetheless, one doesn’t need background knowledge necessarily if one is also willing to read and interpret the poems on their own terms; whatever a reader brings to the text, in terms of personal knowledge, and interest in reading from another perspective, will do… and however far you want to go into research in other areas is up to you…)
Tocqueville's Democracy in America - Online access to whole text: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/toc_indx.html

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

For Thur 1/22

Follow the syllabus for assignments and readings

Read the Cameron pdf and bring ideas to share

Read through the links on L. Hughes in the previous blog post and the Hughes poems from the Packet

Bring Tocqueville the book to start looking at in class

See the Blog Response Assignment at the end of the syllabus and post a blog response on your blog in time for class on Thur.

on Langston Hughes

some additional info:

http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/hear-langston-hughes-read-two-poems-from-the-weary-blues.html

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/langston-hughes

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes

http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKDOGhghMU

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Welcome to Creative Writing

This is the class blog for the CRTW201 T/TH 12:30 and 2 pm sections.

Here you can find links to others' blog pages and information on course happenings.

Please also see EMU Online for pdfs and other material for class.