SURREALISM IMAGINATION-CHALLENGE WRITING PROJECT NUMERO DOS

Your second essay for our surrealism seminar is due on Friday, November 16, 2007, or 10 days from today.  It should be even better than the first essay--thanx to those many of you who kicked butt on the first paper--and should try to expand your range as essayist, purveyor of non-fiction, and all-around dynamic, handsome, beautiful agent of criticism!  The facts?  3 to 7 pages (for those of you who felt cramped by the first paper), typed, double-spaced, no silly fonts, clever titles, and, PLEASE, do limit your use of the verb "to be"--is, was, were, etc.--to less than 20 a page (I am joking!). Here are your choices for your essays! 1. Brain Surgeon/Rocket Scientist/Northrop Frye Department Design your own thesis using works from the 2nd half of the semester and NOT on anything you wrote about in your first paper! Email me your proposal by midnight THIS FRIDAY, November 9, 2007.  If you do not hear back from me by Saturday, November 10, 2007 at noon, consider yourself greenlighted for your project! 2. Surrealism and Desire Department Contrast Daniel Clowes, Rene Crevel, and Man Ray's meditations on the nature of human desire. 3. Art and Psychoanalysis Department Contrast the theories of psychoanalysis to be found in the pages of Gilbert Hernandez's Human Diastrophism and the canvases of Remedios Varo.  Take the time to peruse some of the theories found in Freud's work before diving into this question. 4. The History of Madness Meets the History of Photography Department Compare/Contrast/Fuse/Disrupt the "shared vision" of Michel Foucault and Man Ray. 5. Art History Department Explore MORE of the works of one or two of the artists in the Klinsohr Leroy Surrealism book (Taschen); contrast this work with those to be found in the Kaplan book on Varo. 6. I am Foucault Department Mimic the work of Michel Foucault.  Imagine that a "Director's Cut" of History of Madness is going to appear and that a "lost final chapter" in the work has been "discovered." Write that lost chapter of the History of Madness, and let your Foucault inspired ramblings linger a bit on the writings of Myriam Gurba, Dahlia Season or Gilbert Hernandez, Human Diastrophism. 7.Literary Criticism Department Contrast the surrealisms to be found in the pages of Rene Crevel with that to be found in  Gilbert Hernandez and/or Carlos Fuentes. Have FUN with this essay--be sure to pick works that rock your mind; AND don't be afraid to tweak/adapt/fuse these prompts--just be sure to let us know you have done so on the top of your paper above your title!  Thanx!