| Name: Brian
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| Department: English
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| Title: Instructor, English |
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Office Location:
Learning Res Center,
430
Central Campus |
| Phone Number:
(704)330-6586 |
| Fax Number:
(704)330-6644 |
Email Address: Brian.Anderson@cpcc.edu
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Responsibilities:
“I was talking to Ted Nugent the other day and even he’s disgusted.”
704.330.6586
brian.anderson@cpcc.edu
Office Hours & Teaching Schedule
~Fall 2012~
Monday Office: 8:00-8:30, 12:30-3:00
Class: 8:30-12:30
Tuesday Office: 8:00-9:30 , 5:00-6:00
Class: 9:30-1:45, 6:00- 8:50
Wednesday Office: 8:00-8:30, 12:30-3:00
Class: 8:30-12:30
Thursday Office: 8:00-9:30
Class: 9:30-1:45
Friday Office: 8:00-8:30, 12:30-2:00
Class: 8:30-12:30
*Other hours by appointment. I will have meetings some afternoons.*
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Educational Background:
MA English Appalachian State University 1990
Thesis: From Shylock to Shadrach to Sheva: The Descent of the Eighteenth-Century Stage Jew
BA History Appalachian State University 1988
Minor: Women's Studies
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Interests:
Recent academic interests
Art History, about which I know little but am hoping to learn as I take ART 115 this semester.
I.William Faulkner
A. The relationship between Faulkner's independently published short stories and the stories as they made their way into his novels, such as The Hamlet and Go Down, Moses.
B. Absalom, Absalom! as cultural schist; Thomas Sutpen rejects African and French culture as he attempts (and spectacularly fails) as he attempts to produce Anglo-Saxon Utopia at Sutpen's Hundred.
II. Books Go to War
A. During WWII, an organization called Editions for the Armed Services produced pocket-sized books for American soldiers.
B. The largest category of the 1300+ titles was adventure novels: Westerns, sea stories, mysteries.
C. But the books were also chosen to be useful and uplifting, so that books on music, science, engineering, business, geography, history were also proffered.
D. I'm mostly interested in the belles lettres--why were certain authors (Thoreau, Chaucer) chosen when others (Shakespeare, Byron) were not?
III. John Reed's The Day in Bohemia
An Innovative Treatment: John Reed wrote The Day in Bohemia in 1912, and it was published the next year. The poem is quite long, running 47 pages as it was originally printed. It is in the form of a mock epic, a comic literary device which, by definition, contains all the conventions of an epic poem (invocation of the muse, catalog of ships, mythological “machinery,” etc.) but is comic because the exalted language and style are imposed on a trivial subject.
The Day in Bohemia is ideal for this project because it is highly allusive. Reed satirizes life in Greenwich Village, New York among the artists, critics, writers, journalists and social reformers who haunted the neighborhood around Washington Square in the years before World War I. Unfortunately for a contemporary reader interested in literature or history or art, many of the persons and events Reed mentions are either completely forgotten or only dimly familiar, even if the reader is well informed, so the poem suffers. The Day in Bohemia also contains mythological machinery, parodies of poetic styles and geographical references which beg for explanation.
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