Genre fiction in literature classes
In our meeting on January 7 we talked a little bit about genre fiction and its relationship to literary fiction, so here are a few related links that people may find interesting:
Science Fiction Authors That Lit Geeks Think It's Cool To Read — people who blur those boundaries.
Beautiful Sci-Fi covers — about an experiment in non-cheesy covers for science fiction books.
Thoughts on Genre — a quote from Joyce Carol Oates on "a tacit contract between [genre readers] and the writer."
Formula, Convention, and Cliche: Repetition in Genre Fiction — slightly more formal than the above posts.
Literature classes on Facebook
In our meeting today I talked about my dad's Facebook groups for the classes he's teaching at USC in American Studies (he's an English professor):
ARLT101.Spring2009, "Los Angeles: The Fiction"
AMST301.Spring2009, "America, the Frontier, and the New West"
Check out the "discussions" for his lecture notes. They're kind of silly but good, including lecture notes and a "YouTube Bibliography". He's told me that his students like to check Facebook during his classes anyway, so why not put the class there as well?
There's one UCSB English class that I know of with a Facebook page: ENGL 122NW: Narratives of War.
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There are actually several UCSB classes that have Facebook pages set up, many of which are based in the English Department. Check out the "Favorite Pages" section of the ENGL 122NW Page for more examples of how we are using Facebook for lit and writing classes.
-Amanda Phillips, ENGL 122NW TA
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