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    WRT 205-M260: Critical Research and Inquiry

    The Prison and the American Imagination

    Spring 2014, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:50 p.m., HB Crouse 306

    Patrick W. Berry, [email protected], office: HBC 235

    office phone: 315-443-1912

    office hours: Fridays, 1:00-3:00 p.m. and by appointment

    http://patrickberry.com/wrt205spring2014

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    You can see quotations asflashpointsin a text, moments given a special intensity, made tostand for key concepts and issues. A useful rule of thumb, then, is to quote only those phrasesor passages that you want to do further work with or bring pressure uponwhose particularimplications and resonances you want to analyze, elaborate, counter, revise, echo, or

    transform.Joseph Harris, Coming to Terms, p. 22

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