Schedule
Readings not marked with one of the following icons are from required books for the course
In Reader = Reader      Online Only = Online Only       = Assignment Due
I. Oral Performance and Community
CLASS 1:
Jan. 10 		Introduction
  • Oral Performance. Introduction to course, to oral composition, and to The Odyssey.
  • From Scroll to Screen.
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Buy required books at UCSB Bookstore & reader at Grafikart.
CLASS 2:
Jan. 12		 The Odyssey
  • The Odyssey, Bks. I-II and IV-V.
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CLASS 3:
Jan. 17 		Holiday
  • No Class
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CLASS 4:
Jan. 19 		The Odyssey
  • Odyssey: Bks. VI-VIII.103, VIII.474-IX.36, XIII 1-45, 187-203, 311-440, XXIV.
  • Excerpts from Lord, Singer of Tales.
CLASS 5:
Jan. 24 		Scroll
  • Explore apparatus and read introductory material in Oxford Bible. 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.
  • Zumthor, "The Voice and the Text".

CLASS 6:
Jan. 26
  • Visit by Rabbi Steve Cohen, with Torah scroll.
  • Read Jeremiah 1-2, 18-20.6, 26-31, 36-40.5, 52; Ezra 1-6; Nehemiah 1-2, 7-10.
  • "Scroll of the Law" and "Ezra".
CLASS 7:
Jan. 31
  • Class meets in Pentium 333 lab, Phelps 1526.
  • Begin Wednesday's reading.
CLASS 8:
Feb. 2
  • Psalms, including 1, 6, 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 95, 97, 101, and 109.
  • Camille, selections from Images on the Edge.
  • Leclercq, selections from The Love of Learning.
CLASS 9:
Feb. 7		 Voice to Page Supplementary Links
  • Punctuation and mise en page.
  • Parkes, "The Influence of the Concepts . . ." and "Punctuation, or Pause and Effect".
  • De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators
CLASS 10:
Feb. 9
  • Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, Forward and Introduction, Part One, through ch. 38, and organization of book

CLASS 11:
Fri., Feb. 11
  • Special Class at the Getty to view materials for making manuscripts and exhibit of Psalms in medieval manuscripts (date may be changed).
CLASS 12:
Feb. 14
  • Christine de Pizan. Part Two, ch. 36, 47-50 (Compare Griselda's story to Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" if you've read the Canterbury Tales), 53, (68), 69, 3.1-2,9-10, 19.
  • Voice to Page exercise. Read also Deborah McGrady, "What is a Patron? Benefactors and Authorship in Harley 4431 . . . ," Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference, ed. Marilyn Desmond (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998) (handout).
CLASS 13: Feb. 16
  • Visit by Harry Reese, chair of Studio Art and maker of hand-printed books.
  • Read Warde, "The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible"; Lanham, "At and Through: The Opaque Style and Its Uses"; Reese, "Poetics and Technology: Towards a Typography of the 1980's."
CLASS 14:
Feb. 21 		Holiday
  • No Class
CLASS 15:
Feb. 23

CLASS 16:
Feb. 28
  • Read "Preface," "A Note on the Texts," 1890 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, "Reviews and Reactions" (all in Norton Critical Edition).
  • Visit by Christopher Craft, Victorianist.
CLASS 17:
Mar. 1
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
CLASS 18:
Mar. 6
  • Califia.
  • Conner, "Hypertext in the Last Days of the Book."
CLASS 19:
Mar. 8
  • Coverley: Califia.
  • Harpold, "The Contingencies of the Hypertext Link"; Snyder, "Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh."
CLASS 20:
Mar. 13		 Visit by M. D. Coverley
  • Visit by M. D. Coverley, aka Marjorie C. Luesebrink. Read around in Riding the Meridian (http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/)
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CLASS 21:
Mar. 16 		Conclusions
  • Concluding Remarks.
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