Bibliography

Nicole Ponsler

October 26, 2008

Packet #3

BUTLER, JUDITH. Precarious Life. Verso, 2004.

I have read very little of this book, as I only recently purchased it. I am currently reading the chapter regarding ungrieveable lives and public mourning. Butler suggests that it is possible to move past melancholia into the consideration of the vulnerability of others. Butler also argues that we are all interdependent upon one another.

FELMAN, SHOSHANA. “Education and Crisis”. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. John Hopkins University Press, 1995.

This article discusses artists’ testimony, the role of the audience and the necessity of truth-telling through testimony. Felman argues that trauma testimony should be integral in the pedagogy of teaching as the individual’s creative response to trauma can be instructive in terms of establishing a discernable place and time to said event. Felman explains her own hands-on experience with teaching poetry inclusive of artistic testimony.

KOHL, HERBERT. The Open Classroom. 1969

I am only referencing the quote that you provided in the packet #2 response. I have not read the book.

PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Stranger than Fiction: True Stories. 2008

This book is a combination of non-fiction essays mixed with short fiction. The premise of the book is essentially that people need people and that we generally align ourselves with people who have similar interests. Palahniuk writes about public sex acts on display as part of an annual bike rally in Wyoming, combine demolitions in a small town Missouri, and people who have experienced the calling to build castles.