Peter Schmidt@English Literature, Swarthmore XPress
"out of this same light, out of the central mind…." –Wallace Stevens, "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
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Digital Humanities Projects
Annotations for Fae Myenne Ng’s novel Bone (1993)
Key Terms in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010)
Lesson Plans to Aid High School U.S. Literature Teachers in classes reading short stories
Online Essays
A review-essay on William Carlos Williams’ _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_
on Edward Hopper’s East Wind Over Weehawken being sold by PAFA
Publications
“Truth so mazed”: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction
A selection of older print and digital scholarly work
Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War
On Eros Crossing the Color-Line in William Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell
On Optimists’ Sons and Daughters: Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter and Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
The “Raftsmen’s Passage,” Huck’s Crisis of Whiteness, and _Huckleberry Finn_ in U.S. Literary History
On Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015
Poetry chapbooks / creative writing
Ecotone // 14 poems by Peter Schmidt // wondering through the natural world …
SPLEEN poetry chapbook: pissed-off poems for a pissant age.
Akwete Weave poetry chapbook
Pocketa Pocketas (pulses & pips of poems)
Very Large Array // a poetry collage project by Peter Schmidt (1990-2000)
A Tour of Nefertari’s Tomb [part of the Array but presented separately here]
Pocketa Pocketas (pulses & pips of poems)
Short poems, including haiku, in many different moods and modes….
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Recent Posts
post #5, concluding the Preface to my book in progress, _Upcycling Ecopoetry_
post #4 in the series, from the preface to my book in progress, Upcycling Ecopoetry
post #3 in the series, from my book in progress Upcycling Ecopoetry
Post #2 in the series, from the preface to Upcycling Ecopoetry
Post #1 in a series, all from the preface of my book in progress, _Upcycling Ecopoetry_
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On the Game of Thrones title sequence
Fireborn
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Some Reasons Why Daenerys Targaryen’s Character Is Even Better in Game of Thrones Than in Song of Ice and Fire
Daniel Bosch
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Daniel Bosch on Daisy Fried’s poem “Torment”
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What Should I Do With the Dead Turk in the Bedroom? Class, Sex, and Otherness in Downton Abbey
Rahul Shayar
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On the Game of Thrones title sequence
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About Me
Akwete Weave poetry chapbook
Digital Humanities Projects
Annotations for Fae Myenne Ng’s novel Bone (1993)
Key Terms in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010)
Lesson Plans to Aid High School U.S. Literature Teachers in classes reading short stories
Ecotone // poems by Peter Schmidt // wondering through the natural world …
Engl 009H “Portraits of the Artist” — an introduction to literary and cultural studies for first-year students.
English 116 American Literature Honors Seminar, Fall 2014: the Literature of the U.S. South
English 52A (U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950)
English 52B, U.S. Fiction 1945 to the Present. Swarthmore College, Fall 2017.
English 53: Modern American Poetry
English 53, Modern American Poetry syllabus
English 53R: Advanced Research Topics in U.S. Literature
English 71B: The Lyric Poem in English (Fall 2013)
English 71B, The Lyric Poem in English syllabus (Fall 2013)
English 71D: The Short Story in the U.S. (Fall 2018)
English 71D, The Short Story in the U.S. (Fall 2013)
Online Essays
on Edward Hopper’s East Wind Over Weehawken being sold by PAFA
On Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, 1962 and 2015
Pocketa Pocketas (pulses & pips of poems)
Publications
“Truth so mazed”: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction
A review-essay on William Carlos Williams’ _By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959_
A selection of older print and digital scholarly work
Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War
On Eros Crossing the Color-Line in William Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell
Faulkner-Mitchell
On Optimists’ Sons and Daughters: Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter and Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
The “Raftsmen’s Passage,” Huck’s Crisis of Whiteness, and _Huckleberry Finn_ in U.S. Literary History
Selected Courses
English 71D: The Short Story in the U.S. Fall 2018
Portraits of the Artist: a first-year seminar
SPLEEN poetry chapbook: pissed-off poems for a pissant age.
Very Large Array // a poetry collage project by Peter Schmidt (1990-2000)
Very Large Array project
A Tour of Nefertari’s Tomb
First Chamber in the Descent
Nefertari’s Tomb: The Final Chamber
Nefertari’s Tomb: The Second Chamber
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