assignments

‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats <, 1976, p.51 )

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E379S ASSIGNMENT

all page nos. refer to the course anthology

J= Journal Due; LR=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G = Graded Discussion

Sept 16 P1Apost + G:Your Sense of Place

135-145A Semiotics, from The World is a Text

145B-145F Place theory + topistics, from Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World

146-150 Four terms for sense of place: genius loci, querencia, inscape and instress

151-155 Lopez, “A Literature of Place”

156 Wordsworth, “Michael, A Pastoral Poem”

157 Pater, introduction

158-160 Pater, “The Child in the House”

161 Dickens, introduction

162-4 Dickens, from Hard Times

165-8 Shideler, “The Classroom’s Sense of Place”

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