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This course will familiarize students with a variety of publishing strategies used to study the process and products of American literature and culture. Students will examine how people use texts to interpret the world and coordinate their activities in social groups. An examination of how publications present literary achievements and activities in varied formats. Reasons and consequences of this presentation are examined.
An investigation of American literary production—anthologies, little mags, and trade and small presses— as they function within the literature and other expressions of widely different historical moments. Interactions between American literature and the visual arts. An exploration of the parallels between the work of individual writers, or movements, in American literature and the publications they edited.
Student responsibilities will be: (a) presentation of approaches to the publishing industry; (b) investigating techniques for assessing both productive and economic effects of such publications. Students are expected to prepare a production or experiment using one of the forms of media. Students can do video production, a computer literary publication, or a theoretical presentation.
Instructor: Manuel Brito