winter+syllabus

AP-EN 4050 Syllabus: Winter Term 2013

**Prosthetic Memories 1: Archival Memory: Hypo and Hypermnesia**

 * Jan 10**

Jacques Derrida, "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression." //Diacritics// 25.2 (Summer, 1995): 9-63. Read pp. 1-23 http://www.jstor.org/stable/465144


 * Jan 17**

Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire." //Representations// 26 Special Issue: //Memory and Counter-Memory// (Spring, 1989): 7-24 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928520

Marlene Manoff, "Theories of the Archives from Across the Disciplines." //portal: Libraries and the Academy// 4.1 (2004): 9-25
 * Jan 24**

Danilo Kis, "The Encyclopedia of the Dead (A Whole Life)." in //The Encyclopedia of the Dead// (Northwestern, 1997). 39-65. (see word docs 1 and 2 below)



Borges, "Funes, the Memorious"


 * Jan 31**

//A.R. Luria,// The Mind of a Mnemonist. Harvard University Press, 1987.

**Prosthetic Memories 2:** **Photography and Literature**
Roland Barthes, //Camera Lucida// (Vintage 2000)
 * Feb 7**

Meet at the Clara Thomas Archives (Third floor of Scott Library) @ 3:30, if possible.
 * Feb 14**
 * F**ield visit to the Clara Thomas Archives and the Provincial Archives (on campus)
 * ESSAY PROPOSALS DUE**


 * Feb 21** **READING WEEK**

W.G. Sebald, //Austerlitz// (Modern Library, 2001) 1-150 (or so)
 * Feb 28**

George Kouvaros, “Images that remember us: photography and memory in Austerlitz.” //Textual Practice// 19.1 (2005): 173. [|http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/10.1080/0950236042000329708]

Sebald, //Austerlitz// 150-298.
 * Mar 7**

Samuel Pane. "Trauma Obscura: Photographic Media in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. " //Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature// 38.1 (2005): 37-54. http://ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/pqdweb?did=808358181&Fmt=7&clientId=5220&RQT=309&VName=PQD//


 * Mar 14**

Open Seminars (4 presenters) -- topics to be discussed with Prof. Creet prior to the presentations

Class Cancelled
 * Mar 21**

Field trip to the AGO. Meet at the Westin Family Centre in the basement of the AGO at 3:00. Tickets cost $10. See AGO link to map below. http://www.ago.net/visit
 * March 28**


 * April 4** **RESEARCH ESSAYS DUE**