READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006

Please print out and read the following full-text articles which can be located via Project Muse, in the USD Library Research Databases. To access the articles, Click HERE to get to the USD Library Research Databases page. Next, click on Arts and Humanities. On the next screen, click on Language and Literature. On the screen after that, scroll down and click on Project Muse. Now you can simply type in article or author titles to pull up the full-text articles from the Project Muse database. (Please note that at some point during this process you'll most likely be prompted for your USD User ID and Password). Once in Project Muse, you can search for the articles using title or author's last name, etc. The articles are available in both HTML and PDF format:

"Elizabeth Bishop and Containment Policy," by Steven Gould Axelrod, American Literature, Vol. 75, No. 4 (December 2003), pp. 843-867.

"Elizabeth Bishop's Impersonal Personal," by Bonnie Costello, American Literary History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2003), pp. 334-366.

Please also read the following poems from Elizabeth Bishop's Complete Poems: 1927-1976 :

"Arrival at Santos," p. 89
"Brazil," p. 91
"Questions of Travel," p. 93
"Electrical Storm," p. 100
"The Armadillo," p. 103
"First Death in Nova Scotia," p. 125
"Filling Station," p. 127
"Visits to St. Elizabeths," p. 133
"Giant Toad," p. 139
"Strayed Crab," p. 140
"Giant Snail," p. 141
"Under the Window," p. 153
"In the Waiting Room," p. 159
"Crusoe in England," p. 162
"The Moose," p. 159
"One Art," p. 178
"Santarem," p. 185
"Pink Dog," p. 190
"Sonnet," p. 192
"Exchanging Hats," p. 200

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And finally, here is this week's memoir prompt from The Autobiography Box for blog posts due by midnight on Monday, November 13, 2006:

Write about a strange family member. Were you frightened of this person or were they frightened of you? Were they funny? Did they look strange or behave strangely? Do you still carry on a relationship with that person? Write a scene in which that person is doing or exhibiting the things that made them strange. Are you involved in this scene?