* House of Leaves (2000)
Mark Z. Danielewski

* Kapow! (2012)
Adam Thirlwell
* VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2004)
Steve Tomasula
* Tree of Codes (2010)
Jonathan Safran Foer
* Composition No. 1 (1962)
Marc Saporta
* The Unfortunates (1969)
B.S. Johnson
* Nox (2010)
Anne Carson
* McSweeney's Issue #17 (2005)
Dave Eggers et al.
* Building Stories (2012)
Chris Ware
     

8/20
INTRODUCTIONS
8/22
House of Leaves (3-40)
Read ALL prefatory material.

Freud - "The Uncanny"
Links
Danielewski Entry (ECWTW)
onlyrevolutions.com
Exploration Z

8/27
House of Leaves (41-152)
"Garden of Forking Paths"
"Pierre Menard"
8/29
House of Leaves (153-245)
Links
McCaffery - "Haunted House"

9/3
House of Leaves (246-346)
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
"The Library of Babel"
9/5
House of Leaves (347-407)
Links
Hamilton - "A-Mazing House"


9/10
House of Leaves (408-521)
Barth - "Lit of Exhaustion" (HO)
9/12
House of Leaves (522-585)
Links
Hansen - "Digital Topography"

9/17
House of Leaves (586-662)
Hayles - "Saving the Subject"

9/19
Kapow! (5-35)
Links
Visual Editions

9/24
Kapow! (35-81)
Bray - "Concrete Poetry" (HO)
Gibbons - "Multimodal Lit" (HO)
)
9/26
Flatland (ALL)

Kennon's First Presentation
Links
Žižek - "Shoplifters"
Abbott - Flatland (1884)
Flatland (audio recording)

10/1
VAS (1- 227)
Tomasula - "An Apology"
Tomasula - "Information" (HO)
10/3
VAS (228-370)

Term Paper Assigned

Links
stevetomasula.com


10/8
NO CLASS - FALL BREAK
10/10
Street of Crocodiles (vii-48)

Kennon's Second Presentation
Links
Schulz - Crocodiles (1934)


10/15
Street of Crocodiles
(49-111)

Hayles - "Combining Close"
10/17
Tree of Codes (ALL)
Links
Phillips - Humument (5/e, 2012)

10/22
RECAP

Term Paper Selections Due
10/24
MIDTERM EXAM

Links


10/29
Composition No. 1 (ALL)

10/31
Sort Composition No. 1
Barthes - S/Z (selection)
Hayles - "Interactive Fict" (HO)

Links
Guardian review

11/5
The Unfortunates (ALL)

Term Paper Abstracts Due
11/7
McHale - "Worlds" (HO)
Tredell - "Telling Life"
Tew - "(Re)-acknowledging"
Links


11/12
NOX (ALL)
Kacandes - "Life Writing" (HO)
"A Classical Poet, Redux"
11/14
INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS

Term Paper Annotations Due
Links


11/19
McSweeney's #17 (Unfamiliar)
11/21
McSweeney's #17 (Yeti)

Links
mcsweeneys.net

11/26
McSweeney's #17 (The Rest)
11/28
NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
Links

12/3
Building Stories (ALL)
Chute - "Graphic Narrative" (HO)
12/5
RECAP

Term Paper Due

Links


12/10
NO CLASS - FINALS WEEK
12/12
FINAL EXAM - 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Links