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Fall 2007
Naked Surrealisms English 301: Psychology in Novels, Cinema, Art, Photography, & Film An SDSU General Education Course | Mondays & Wednesdays from 2 to 3:15 Professor William Nericcio |
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| August 29 WEDNESDAY Walk into class having read the first two chapters of SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE September 3, MONDAY No Class!!! September 5, WEDNESDAY Walk into the room having read to the halfway point of SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE; also, try to have read to around page 80 in Foucault's HISTORY OF MADNESS September 10, Monday You enter AH2108 having finished Vonnegut's novel; additionally, you have begun to page through the Taschen volume Surrealism authored by Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy. You will also try to have gotten near page 100 in Foucault's amazing MADNESS volume.  September 12, Wednesday Finish reading Klingsöhr-Leroy's Surrealism. Read to 125 in the Foucault book. September 17, Monday Alfred Hitchcock (with Salvador Dali!) give us SPELLBOUND | Read to at least 174 in HISTORY OF MADNESS. Here's a taste of a key dream sequence choreographed and designed by Dali in collaboration with Hitchcock: September 19, Wednesday Finish screening of Spellbound | no new reading! Catch up to p174 in Foucault's opus. 
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 September 24, 2007 MondayMuch of today's discussion will key on your "reading" of Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND; walk into class ready to compose a short in-class essay on what you viewed as the most provocative psychological element of the film--you will do well to carefully review your screening notes as SPECIFICS (motifs, scene shifts, point of view, character names, actors) are key to an A+ level grade--a list of characters and actors from director Hitchcock's opus is here. Additionally, take the weekend and carefully read AURA by Carlos Fuentes--we may have time to discuss Fuentes's uncanny tale a bit today |
 September 26, 2007 WednesdayWe will devote our discussion today to Carlos Fuentes's AURA--what part of the story touches on our theme of Naked Surrealisms? What part does not? Does a novelist's approach to the "surreal" or the "occult" differ from that of an artist. Find an artist in the Taschen SURREALISM book that evokes the "feel" of AURA. |
 mondayOctober 1, 2007 We will devote the better part of today doing close readings from Fuentes's AURA--discussion will be the name of the game as your professor will valiantly strive to let you get a word in edgewise. |
 wednesdayOctober 3, 2007 Foucault day--bring your big book to class; you should be hovering somewhere around page 200-225. |
| monday O  ctober 8, 2007Diane Arbus Documentary; discussion; intro to Shainberg's Fur. |
 wednesdayOctober 10, 2007 Today you receive your Surrealism Challenge Writing Project #1 prompts. We will continue to screen FUR. |
 mondayOctober 15, 2007 Finish screening FUR. You should be approaching the 300th page of Foucault around now! |
 wednesdayOctober 17, 2007 Enter class having read and finished EIGHTBALL 23 by Daniel Clowes. |
| friday October 19, 2007 no class, of course! but your surrealism challenge writing projects #1 are due today! |
 mondayOctober 22, 2007 You have had a busy weeking--taking advantage of the fact that last week all you had to read was a comic book, you are making your way close to the 360th page of Foucault's History of Madness. For today's class you will also reread Eightball #23 by Dan Clowes, and, believe it or not, read the first 60 pages or so of the Remedio Varo book, Unexpected Journeys, authored by Kaplan. CLASS CANCELED OWING TO THE FIRES!  |
 wednesdayOctober 24, 2007 Read the next 60 pages or so of Kaplan's volume as we continue our exploration of the surreal visions of Remedios Varo. CLASS CANCELED OWING TO THE FIRES! |
 mondayOctober 29, 2001 Over the weekend you have finished the Varo volume! today we tackle the world of remedios varo and try to catch up with work and recover from the trauma of the fires! |
 wednesdayOctober 31, 2007 Creval day one--guest lecture with the one and only Adam Meehan as you weave your mind along side of Creval's My Body and I. |
 mondayNovember 5, 2007 Day two of Creval with Meehan at the till! The
poet does not put the wild animals to sleep in order to play the tamer,
but, the cages wide open, the keys thrown to the winds, he journeys
forth, a traveller who thinks not of himself but of the voyage, of
dream beaches, forests of hands, soul-endowed animals, all undeniable
surreality.
René Creval |
 wednesdayNovember 7, 2007 Receive Surrealism Challenge Writing Project #2 prompts. Walk into class having carefully studied, take at least an hour or two, the collection of MAN RAY photographs published by Dover Books--in addition, if you are quite near to page 380 in Foucault, you are DONE with History of Madness for the term! Go out and buy a straitjacket to celebrate! |
 mondayNovember 12, 2007 NO CLASS--veteran's day!!!! Read the first half of Myrian Gurba's book in celebration!!!!! |
 wednesdayNovember 14, 2007 You have finished Gurba's cool new book as you trot into our beloved Storm Hall classroom, having got a good start on the text during your Monday holiday! |
| friday November 16, 2007 no class, of course! but your Surrealism Challenge Writing Project #2 are due today! |
 mondayNovember 19, 2007 CHANGE OF PLAN--MEET THE AUTHOR DATE!!!!!!! MYRIAM GURBA comes in to our house to discuss her novel and writing... and, you guessed it, Foucault to around page 600. |
| wednesday November 21, 2007  NO CLASS--have an amazing Thanksgiving!!!!!! |
 mondayNovember 26, 2007 human diastrophism by gilbert hernandez; and, finally, we return to the work of Kaplan on VARO.... be sure to read chapters 3, 4, 5, and 8. |
 wednesdayNovember 28, 2007 SURPRISE GUEST LECTURE!!!!!! Today we will leave the comforts of storm hall for a guest lecture on campus by Gustavo Arellano, whose surreal next-generation takes on Ethnicity and US Mass Culture are worth the price of admission--it's a free lecture! room 2203 of Love Library!!!!! |
 mondayDecember 3, 2007 taschen surrealism book and human diastrophism by gilbert hernandez; course review. |
 wednesdayDecember 5, 2007 FINAL CLASS FINAL IN-CLASS NAKED SURREALISM WRITING CHALLENGE |
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This class deals with ADULT issues and activities. If you are squeamish about insanity, human sexuality, erotic taboos or if graphic art, literature and film leave you weak, angry, disgusted etc., PLEASE drop this class BEFORE you get the urge to call on your parents and clergy to remove your scandalous professor from his job! This is a university-level course exploring usually hidden elements of the human psyche: you should EXPECT to be disturbed and moved. |
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