Please note: beginning with this assignment, posts are due at 10 p.m. the night before class. This will give me and your classmates a chance to review them before class.Read Lanham, chapter two. Also read Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish." This can be read as a single page and printed out through the links at the top and bottom of the page.
Bellow is a great Jewish American writer, one who recently died. It's hard to think of a writer who is more revered for his "great sentences." Review after review raves about his "breathtaking beautiful sentences." But how many could explain what makes them so good?
This story is one of Bellow's most admired short works. Please read it closely, choose several passages to zero in on, and bring Lanham's ideas - or whatever works - to some close analysis. Again, focus on key paragraphs, not the whole story. No need to stay with grammar and structure. Think of Bellow's diction, way of combining words, way of designing a paragraph.
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