Section outline

    • Tuesday

      Reading Due: Cavendish- The Blazing World (excerpt assign for Thursday.)

      Writing Due:

      Response Paragraph 1 Start of class Tuesday (Respond to LeGuin's Preface or Hayles' Prologue- your claim for this response paragraph can be a broader philosophical claim rather than a claim about the text. Note that the response paragraphs in the future will analyze an idea in one of the fictional texts.)

       

      Thursday

      Close Reading Continued

      Assign Peer Review (Thesis Statement and 2 Body Paragraphs due next Thursday)

      Reading Due:

      Readings Due:

      Intro to Freud’s “The Uncanny”

      Mori’s Uncanny Valley

      E.T.A. Hoffmann “The Sandman” (1816)

      (make sure to go get Frankenstein if you have not already! We start reading it next week.)

    • Readings

    • Cavendish the Blazing World File PDF
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    • The Sandman, Hoffman File PDF
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    • Mori "The Uncanny Valley" URL
    • Freud The Uncanny URL

    • Audio Versions of the Readings

    • Libri Vox Audio Book of Cavendish (Listen through halfway through part 1 section three-1:32 minute mark-just the excerpt!) URL
    • Audiobook version of The Sandman URL

    • Presentations