Tuesday, September 5, 2023

What is World Literature?


First sign-up
  1. Sign up for Blogger (free), create a blog, create a profile, upload a picture (either you or something that represents you), and write an initial post, responding to the Damrosch article. Tag your post with #fa23worldlit. Don’t forget to tag your post since it’s one of the main ways we’ll be able to find each other’s work.
  2. Sign up for our Slack channel by going to fa23worldlit.slack.com/signup, say hello in the #open-forum channel, get familiar with our Slack channel, and share a link to your Blogger post in the #blogger-posts channel


Then read:

David Damrosch, “What is world literature?”


While reading:

Annotate the readings with comments & questions. Sign up for Kami. (free) and use it to annotate the reading.

To learn more about annotating a text, read the following:


After reading:

Think carefully & deeply & write a reflective Blogger post on the reading / 
Tag your blog post #fa23worldlit

Use your annotations to help guide your reflection but don't really on them for your full post. Add new questions and comments. Tell us if you've changed your mind about a particular section of the reading and why. We will talk about annotation a lot this semester.



DUE next class

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