Tuesday (November 30)

Welcome back from vacation!

We'll start our discussion of The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes on Tuesday.

Semiotic Analysis

For Tuesday (November 16), you'll want to hand in your semiotic analysis exercise.  Here's how you do it:

1) copy your 50 or so lines from Chapter 11 of Wuthering Heights into a new document.   You can either find the text at gutenberg.org or on the page I've created here on our blog.

2) read through your excerpt carefully - - circling, underlining, or highlighting all of the semiotically significant terms or phrases.

3) on a separate sheet of paper, list the binary oppositions that you find in the text.  You should quote or cite the language of the text.  If the opposite term in the opposition is not "in" the text - - put brackets around it.  For instance, "the dismal house" vs. [Thrushcross Grange], etc.  Your goal is to analyze as closely as possible how the text is structured or organized around binary oppositions.

4) on a separate sheet or sheets of paper, you should reflect and comment on the oppositions that you discover.  What patterns do you see?  How do the oppositions in this particular, limited text reflect "larger" binary oppositions that structure the novel? (e.g. Wuthering Heights vs. Thrushcross Grange, gypsy vs. gentleman, wild vs. domesticated, etc.)

Make sure you work is typed up.  Be sure to include your name and date on the pages.  Staple all the sheets together.  Enjoy!

For Thursday (November 4)

Finish Volume I of Wuthering Heights.

Don't forget our semiotic analysis of part 2 of Lockwood's nightmare.  You can find the text here.  No need to write paragraphs etc.  Just construct a table or list of binary oppositions.