Nothing like getting Comp'd
I just finished my comps about three hours ago. For those of you who want to know, these were the lists. I wrote 21 pages on the first list, 20 pages on the second list, and 15 pages on this list...this week. I also taught my 4 classes and graded about 20 papers. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's the dis proposal and then I am ABD.
American Satire:
Constance Rourke. American Humour.
Dickson-Carr, Darryl. African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel. Columbia and London: U of Missouri P, 2001..
Keough, William. Punchlines: The Violence of American Humor. New York: Paragon House, 1990.
Lang, Candace D. Irony/Humor: Critical Paradigms. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U P, 1988.
Lowe, John. “Theories of Ethnic Humor: How To Enter Laughing”
Schultz, Max F. "Toward a Definition of Black Humor." Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1978. 14-27.
Materialism and Modernism
Sinclair, Lewis Babbit .
Faulkner, William Mosquitoes
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Babylon Revisited
Violence and Materialism
Kummunyakaa. Yuseff “For You, Sweetheart, I’d Sell Plutonium Reactors”
Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho
Pahlunik, Chuck Fight Club
Powers, Richard Gain
Contemporary Humor and Satires of Materialism
Gaddis, William. A Frolic of One’s Own.
Buckley, Christopher. Thank You For Smoking
Fashion and Materialism
Killens, John. Cotillion
Dodd, Susan “Public Appearances”
Jordan, June. “Memo:”
Altman, Ready To Wear
Fields, Julia. “High On the Hog”
Media and Materialism
Sedaris, David. “Based Upon A True Story”
Cather, Willa. “Paul’s Case”
Delillo, Don. Cosmopolis.
Kelly, William Melvin, Dem
Columnists and satires of materialism
O’Rourke, P.J. Modern Manners
Ivans, Molly. Molly Ivans Can’t Say That (Can She?)
List 2: Nazis in American Pop Culture
American History X (film)
Apt Pupil (film)
Casablanca (film)
Dr. Strangelove (film)
Boys From Brazil (film)
Stalag 17 (film)
The Producers (film)
The Third Man (film)
The Judgement at Nuremberg (film)
Swing Kids (film)
Schindler’s List (film)
Hogan’s Heroes (Television Series)
DeLillo, Don. White Noise
Ericson, Steve. Tours of the Black Clock
Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Douglas, Lawrence. “Film As Witness: Screening Nazi Concentration Camps Before The Nuremberg Tribunal”. The Yale Law Review. Vol. 105, number 2, November 1995. pp. 449-481.
Kracauer, Siegrid. From Caligari To Hitler
Mann, Klaus. “What’s Wrong With Anti-Nazi Films?” New German Critique, number 89, Spring 2003, pp 173-182.
Orwell, George. “Politics and The English Language”
"Now a Major Motion Picture": War Films and Hollywood's New Patriotism
Saul Friedlander "Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death"
Insdorf, Annette. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust
Hans Christoph Kayser. “the Changing Nazi Image in the American Media” The Journal of Popular Culture vol. 10, number 4, 848-851
Peter C. Rollins. “Film and American Studies: Questions, Activities, Guides.” American Quarterly > Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug., 1974), pp. 245-265
Leo C. Rosten. “Movies and Propaganda.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science > Vol. 254, The Motion Picture Industry (Nov., 1947), pp. 116-124
List 3 Atomic Literature
Alan Nade. Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Barth. “Lost In The Funhouse”
Derrida, Jaques. “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)”. Diacritics- Volume 14, number 2, Summer 1984, pp. 20-31.
Ericson, The Sea Came In At Midnight.
LeGuin, Ursela K. The Lathe of Heaven
Gibson. Pattern Recognition
Ginsberg, “Plutonium Ode”
Lowell Robert, “Fall 1961”
Joseph Dewey In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age
Korseau, “The Bomb”
Stein, Gertrude. Reflections On The Atomic Bomb
Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
Louis Parker Zamora Writing The Apocalypse
Marth Bartter The Way to Ground Zero
Pamela Sargent. The Shore of Women
Prochnou, William. Trinity’s Child
Pychon, Against The Day
Pynchon, Entropy
Sturgeon, Theodore, “August Sixth, 1945”
Russel Hoban. Ridley Walker
Saint-Armour, Paul K. “Bombing and the Symptom: Traumatic Earliness and the Nuclear Uncanny”. Diacritics. Volume 30, number 4, pp. 59-82
Dick, Phillip K., “The Penultimate Truth”
Tim O’Brien. The Nuclear Age
Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
American Satire:
Constance Rourke. American Humour.
Dickson-Carr, Darryl. African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel. Columbia and London: U of Missouri P, 2001..
Keough, William. Punchlines: The Violence of American Humor. New York: Paragon House, 1990.
Lang, Candace D. Irony/Humor: Critical Paradigms. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U P, 1988.
Lowe, John. “Theories of Ethnic Humor: How To Enter Laughing”
Schultz, Max F. "Toward a Definition of Black Humor." Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Sarah Blacher Cohen. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1978. 14-27.
Materialism and Modernism
Sinclair, Lewis Babbit .
Faulkner, William Mosquitoes
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Babylon Revisited
Violence and Materialism
Kummunyakaa. Yuseff “For You, Sweetheart, I’d Sell Plutonium Reactors”
Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho
Pahlunik, Chuck Fight Club
Powers, Richard Gain
Contemporary Humor and Satires of Materialism
Gaddis, William. A Frolic of One’s Own.
Buckley, Christopher. Thank You For Smoking
Fashion and Materialism
Killens, John. Cotillion
Dodd, Susan “Public Appearances”
Jordan, June. “Memo:”
Altman, Ready To Wear
Fields, Julia. “High On the Hog”
Media and Materialism
Sedaris, David. “Based Upon A True Story”
Cather, Willa. “Paul’s Case”
Delillo, Don. Cosmopolis.
Kelly, William Melvin, Dem
Columnists and satires of materialism
O’Rourke, P.J. Modern Manners
Ivans, Molly. Molly Ivans Can’t Say That (Can She?)
List 2: Nazis in American Pop Culture
American History X (film)
Apt Pupil (film)
Casablanca (film)
Dr. Strangelove (film)
Boys From Brazil (film)
Stalag 17 (film)
The Producers (film)
The Third Man (film)
The Judgement at Nuremberg (film)
Swing Kids (film)
Schindler’s List (film)
Hogan’s Heroes (Television Series)
DeLillo, Don. White Noise
Ericson, Steve. Tours of the Black Clock
Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Douglas, Lawrence. “Film As Witness: Screening Nazi Concentration Camps Before The Nuremberg Tribunal”. The Yale Law Review. Vol. 105, number 2, November 1995. pp. 449-481.
Kracauer, Siegrid. From Caligari To Hitler
Mann, Klaus. “What’s Wrong With Anti-Nazi Films?” New German Critique, number 89, Spring 2003, pp 173-182.
Orwell, George. “Politics and The English Language”
"Now a Major Motion Picture": War Films and Hollywood's New Patriotism
Saul Friedlander "Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death"
Insdorf, Annette. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust
Hans Christoph Kayser. “the Changing Nazi Image in the American Media” The Journal of Popular Culture vol. 10, number 4, 848-851
Peter C. Rollins. “Film and American Studies: Questions, Activities, Guides.” American Quarterly > Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug., 1974), pp. 245-265
Leo C. Rosten. “Movies and Propaganda.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science > Vol. 254, The Motion Picture Industry (Nov., 1947), pp. 116-124
List 3 Atomic Literature
Alan Nade. Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Barth. “Lost In The Funhouse”
Derrida, Jaques. “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives)”. Diacritics- Volume 14, number 2, Summer 1984, pp. 20-31.
Ericson, The Sea Came In At Midnight.
LeGuin, Ursela K. The Lathe of Heaven
Gibson. Pattern Recognition
Ginsberg, “Plutonium Ode”
Lowell Robert, “Fall 1961”
Joseph Dewey In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age
Korseau, “The Bomb”
Stein, Gertrude. Reflections On The Atomic Bomb
Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
Louis Parker Zamora Writing The Apocalypse
Marth Bartter The Way to Ground Zero
Pamela Sargent. The Shore of Women
Prochnou, William. Trinity’s Child
Pychon, Against The Day
Pynchon, Entropy
Sturgeon, Theodore, “August Sixth, 1945”
Russel Hoban. Ridley Walker
Saint-Armour, Paul K. “Bombing and the Symptom: Traumatic Earliness and the Nuclear Uncanny”. Diacritics. Volume 30, number 4, pp. 59-82
Dick, Phillip K., “The Penultimate Truth”
Tim O’Brien. The Nuclear Age
Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
2 Comments:
Did you finish ATD? I still have 200 pp or so (got sidetracked this month).
Congratulations on almost being done!
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