Poetics of Dislocation
a cross-listed graduate/undergraduate seminar developed and taught by Jennifer Scappettone at the University of Chicago, Winter 2010 The avant-garde revival…has found in this nationless woman [apolide] from a great tradition of cosmopolitan families, a terrain in which to explode with the deadly and marvelous fecundity of mushroom clouds in the act of their taking [...]
Realism & the Abracadabrant Word
Realism and the “Abracadabrant” Word: Literary Productions of Lower Manhattan a doctoral seminar developed and taught by Jennifer Scappettone at the University of Chicago, Fall 2007 “He doesn’t know, he can’t say, before the facts, and he doesn’t even want to know or to say; the facts themselves loom, before the understanding, in too large [...]
Henry James & the Sense of the Past
an undergraduate seminar developed and taught by Jennifer Scappettone at the University of Chicago, Spring 2010 I delight in a palpable imaginable visitable past—in the nearer distances and the clearer mysteries, the marks and signs of a world we may reach over to as by making a long arm we grasp an object at [...]
Poetry Of & Off the Page
a workshop developed and taught by Jennifer Scappettone at the University of Chicago, Spring 2010 Is there a place for poetry in a universe subject to time-space compression and virtualization? We will explore and experiment with material whose response is a delirious yes—text that revels in charging the confines of the page and book. Exposure [...]