Those who do not become wild beasts when they write, who write to please, write nothing that has not already been written, teach us nothing, and forge extra bars for our cage. -- Hélène Cixous.

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As per our conversation, I am willing to hold another review class. Please meet me at my office, on Wednesday the 14th, at 11:30. We will find a classroom dependant on the number of people in attendance. Bring your questions and your good moods!

I will be holding office hours Friday, the 11th from 2-4

This place might be a good resource for those of you looking for an approach or clarity for your upcoming essay. It is a good place to get information, in a clear, concise manner or theorists.

In order to accommodate the next peer review class which is now scheduled for March 16th, "Blood Relations" will now begin on March 4th. Please come to class on the 4th prepared to discuss it. We will also be discussing Cixous on that day. Please read "Laugh of the Medusa" in advance.

Go to Dino Felluga's Introductory Guide to Critical theory, OR to the Salter Library where two books have been put on hold for you, chose an approach, become familiar with its tenets, pick a specific author discussed, and do more research. Do gender- based, psychoanalytical, new-historicist, marxist, or narratological reading of Sharon Pollack's Blood Relations OR Douglas Coupland's Neuromancer. You may (with my permission) likewise bring in any theory you have learned outside of this class.

You will need 5 secondary sources for this paper. No secondary sources can be used from online without permission.

Please include all the regular paratextual apparatus.

2000 word minimum.

Due March 23rd.

The paper is now due on Febuary 12, 2003

Tips for "Polished" Papers:
from "Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers"

Revision

To engage in the process of revision, you should evaluate, add, cut, replace and move material, and then edit and proofread carefully.

Some tips for revision:
(if you cannot answer "yes" to the following questions, then you need to revise)

Please find a copy of Plath's Spider here