Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
Department
Spring 2015
T 3:30-5:45
Holmes 400B
Professor Marina
Leslie
E-Mail: m.leslie@neu.edu
Office: 407 Holmes Hall
Office Hrs: Thursdays 11:301:00
Class Website:
http://www.northeastern.ed
u/openingthearchive/
Overview
This course showcases the rich archival holdings of print materials in the greater Boston area to
offer training in the materials, methods, and theories of primary source research. We will visit
three remarkable research institutions we have here in the Boston area: the Boston Public Library,
The Massachusetts Historical Society, and Harvards Houghton Library in order to become more
familiar with their unique collections and particular protocols. In class we will examine the
complex traffic between self-consciously literary texts and other artifacts drawn from print culture
along multiple trajectories: One will follow the uses and transformations of source material in
Shakespeares most contemporary play, The Tempest. A second will track important
reinventions and transformations of The Tempest to assess how adaptations negotiate their
complex literary legacies with (and/or against) the multivalent historical, political, and aesthetic
contexts of their own production. A third will seek to incorporate theories of the archive to
dramatize the range of working definitions and the methodological challenges that are invoked by
the theorists we are reading and to enable students to theorize their own research practices. Grades
will be based on two research-based exercises that we will workshop in class and a final research
grant proposal on a topic of your choice related to your own research agenda.
Goals
Grading
Requirements
Boston Athenaeum
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/
Required Texts
The following books are available at the NU Bookstore. All other readings will be available on
the class website: http://www.northeastern.edu/openingthearchive/
Please use these editions for ease of reference:
William Shakespeare, Tempest. Ed. Werstein (Folger Library)
Aim Csaire, A Tempest (Theater Communications Group)
Carol Steedman, Dust. (Longleaf Publishers)
Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain (Princeton University Press)
Reading Schedule
January 13
IntroductionWhat is an archive?
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html
January 27
Junos Wrath
Shakespeares critics and their sources:
Barbara Fuchs, Conquering Islands: Contextualizing The Tempest
Alden T. Vaughan, Trinculos Indian: American Natives in
Shakespeares England
Roger Stritmatter and Lynne Kositsky Shakespeare and the Voyagers
Revisited
February 3
Linus sidelined us
February 17
March 3
March 10
SPRING BREAK
March 24
Archives R Us
March 31
April 7
April 14
Final Presentations
April 21
Final Presentations
April 27