tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post4093772944911630369..comments2023-09-12T06:18:38.552-04:00Comments on The World in the Satin Bag: "You Haven't Read That, Teacher?" and Other "Not a Real Field" Fallacies (Teaching Rambles)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-90664812593978428982013-01-31T13:28:24.154-05:002013-01-31T13:28:24.154-05:00I'll post it later this week :)
That's ac...I'll post it later this week :)<br /><br />That's actually a good question, but one the critical scholarship has generally covered: it's based on the author's present (in the case of Herland, it might be a utopia for women -- maybe).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-21991780588782674922013-01-30T23:14:16.427-05:002013-01-30T23:14:16.427-05:00Definitely, I'd love to see the final syllabus...Definitely, I'd love to see the final syllabus. And I agree that HERLAND is arguably a Utopian novel, not a Dystopian one, and the conflict only occurs because the men from our own society steadfastly refuse to believe that an all-female culture could be anything but false and wrong-headed. The question to any of these writings, I suppose, is: "Utopia/Dystopia to whom?"Dave B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05565133923004044115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-57182367505447639222013-01-28T23:36:31.642-05:002013-01-28T23:36:31.642-05:00I may have to post the syllabus for this course, t...I may have to post the syllabus for this course, then. Plenty of good reads on it, though it is heavily oriented towards American anxieties, which means, of course, that some of our texts are socialist ones :)<br /><br />We're going to read Russ' The Female Man as our feminist text. I considered Herland, but a lot of the critical literature doesn't feel it is accurately described as a dystopia, so I went with a more clearly dystopian feminist text.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-87566780784117886432013-01-28T22:43:38.470-05:002013-01-28T22:43:38.470-05:00Also wanted to put out there, best literature cour...Also wanted to put out there, best literature course in college I ever took was one with a focus on Utopian/Dystopian themes. Sounds like the class you're preparing for here is the same, to which I say "awesome". I'm glad that's getting around.<br /><br />Our class was full of slow readers and the professor ultimately skipped over a lot of the texts we were supposed to cover - I was the only one in the class to read "If On a Winter's Night A Traveler..." before the professor had to announce that we were going to ignore it, but it was worth it. Also I'd never heard of "Herland" before this class. The curriculum stayed pretty high brow-ish, but full of books I actually was thrilled to read, write about, and think about. I hope your course has a long life.Dave B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05565133923004044115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-51170845756113727212013-01-28T08:57:20.881-05:002013-01-28T08:57:20.881-05:00It's possible he latched onto the "I'...It's possible he latched onto the "I'm teaching it" rather than my intended meaning of "I'm going to teach it." I'd never teach something that I haven't read yet. That would be absurd.<br /><br />Good clarification.<br /><br />I think there are a lot of misconceptions about academia and curriculum practices. I may be overreaching, but my experience as an academic has seemed to confirm many of my suspicions about what people know about how academia works.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-59622558475389546452013-01-28T01:12:58.546-05:002013-01-28T01:12:58.546-05:00I'm not in academia but I'm well aware tha...I'm not in academia but I'm well aware that teacher don't get to make up their own curriculum on a whim. If this guy didn't know that, I hope that's not indicative of the larger culture, but I don't think it is.<br /><br />It could be (if your paraphrasing of the conversation is accurate enough) that fact that you said "I'm teaching it" rather than "I'm going to teach it" which, which does imply the "when".Dave B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05565133923004044115noreply@blogger.com