English 520 - The Visual Sources of American Modernism Professor William Marling Fall 1997 Thursdays 4:30 pm- 7 pm Office: 219 Guilford House, Case Western Reserve University, Hours: Mondays through Thursdays 2 pm- 4 pm Phone: (216) 368-2342, E-mail: wxm3@po.cwru.edu   Primary Texts:   Robert Crunden, American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism. New York: Oxford U.P. 1993. Ezra Pound, Early Poems. New York: Dover, 1996. Vachel Lindsay, The Art of the Moving Picture. New York: Liveright, 1970. Hart Crane, The Bridge. New York: Liveright, 1970. Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1991. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. New York: Vintage, 1990. William Carlos Williams, Spring and All or The Collected Early Poems of (any edition) Jean Toomer, Cane. (any edition) Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women or Nightwood (any edition). Other writers (and critical articles) to be photo-copied (PC).   We will have three sessions of instruction in HTML programming at a time to be announced.   Syllabus:   August 28th - Introduction   September 4th - Ezra Pound: Early Poems; Crunden: Salons 83-92 and 195-273; PC from Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era .   September 11th - Harriet Monroe, Amy Lowell; Crunden: Salons xi-xv and 102-13; PC selected poems and Cecelia Tichi, "The New Utilitarians."   September 18th - Vachel Lindsay: The Art of the Moving Picture; Crunden: Salons 145-64; PC - selected poems, Nick Browne, "Orientalism as an Ideological Form."   September 25th - Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons; Crunden: Salons 194-82, 275-302 and 330-36; PC - Wendy Steiner, "Cubism: The Limits of the Analogy."   October 2nd - Hemingway: "The Revolutionist, "Soldier's Home," from A Moveable Feast; PC: Tichi, "Opportunity: Imagination Ex Machina II."   October 9th - Mina Loy: PC from The Last Lunar Baedaker and Marinetti, "Futurist Manifesto."   October 16th - Williams, Spring and All; Crunden: Salons 303-330 and 339-82; PC - from Marling Williams and the Painters .   October 23rd - Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women; Jean Toomer, Cane. Crunden: Salons 409-43.   October 30th - e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore: PC - selected poems, Steinman, "The Anaconda Like Curves of Central Bearings."   November 6th - T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (regular and facsimile editions). PC: Kenner, "Eliot Observing" and Lyndall Gordon, TK.   November 13th - Hart Crane, The Bridge. PC: Horton, Hart Crane. Chapters 6, 7, 8.   November 20th - William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. PC: selections from Faulkner's Early Prose and Poetry, Panthea Reid, "The Scene of Writing and the Shape of Language" and Thomas Rankin, "The Ephemeral Instant."   December 4th - Presentation of project sites.   December 5th - Outline of paper due (containing your thesis and main points).   December 15th - 9am Last day papers may be submitted without an Incomplete.   January 5th - Absolute deadline to have paper and pages completed.     Web Requirements:   You will write a research paper that will be interactive with its sources and published on this web site. Steps in the production of your paper and your pages on the site are:   September 18th - you will have an on-line a list of links to resources about your author with a short description and evaluation of each site.   October 2nd - you will have a report of 1,500 to 3,000 words on the traditional print scholarship regarding your author and his or her visual resources and influences.   October 16th - you will have posted the pertinent visuals to your Web page.   November 13th - conferences with the instructor to review your Web page progress.   December 4th - presentation of your Web page to the class.   December 20th - your paper due on your Web page.     Resources:   1. Two of your classmates will help you get started with HTML programming and will upload your pages for you.   2. A scanner is available in the Guilford Language Lab.   3. New computers are available on the 4th floor of Guilford in Room 407.