For Monday, 3/17

Write about Gladman’s Event Factory. Specifically, write about what Gladman is doing in this work with narrative including: how the text relates form and content, how it (or parts of it) can be read metaphorically, give examples of mimesis or how Gladman uses this as an idea throughout. Think also about the various themes or content that happen in the book such as: “the journey,” experience, gesture, language, tourism, intuition, architecture, dystopia, etc. in relation to the above structural/formal properties.

Write 2-3 comprehensive paragraphs, type, print, and bring to class on Monday to share in conversation.

Etc. assignment updates:

See Creative Project 3 Assignment Sheet on EMU Online

3/17: Gladman + On Narrative, further reading from Biting the Error: Davis (35), Shurin (38), Gladman (46)

3/19: Bring a draft of Creative Project 3 to share/workshop in class; type and print it 

3/20: from Biting: Halpern (55), Markotic (119), Harryman (132) and pdf on narrative from JNT

Keep Blogging, see syllabus for additional assignment info and due dates. 

Narrative Writing Exercise– Postcards

Choose three postcards (real postcards or google “postcard images” and see what you get). Choose the postcards at random. Spend 15 minutes writing everything you can about the postcards, anything that occurs to you when you look at them, anything you think of, any way that you can describe the images, etc. Start writing and don’t stop until 15 minutes are finished. 

Next, turn the material into form narrative of some kind with character(s), situation (plot), setting (space, place). Try and use the material from all of the postcards in the story; you can edit and revise further later.