David Copperfield Audio Adaptation 2

Please enjoy this audio adaptation of a scene from David Copperfield created by Lyz and Aracely:

David Copperfield Audio Adaptation

Please enjoy Stanley and Stephanie’s adaptation of Chapter 25 from David Copperfield:

Radio Assignment for 10/30

For Thursday, October 30, please listen to the radio show episode listed on the right side of this page, Philip Marlowe Radio Mystery: “Where There’s a Will.” Enjoy!

Online Reading Assignment for Oct. 16

For class on Thursday, October 16, you need to read the chapter section entitled “Audiences and Power” (pp. 163-173) from Jennifer Poole Hayward’s Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera. The book is available online through the UCSB library (the library’s paper copy is missing, unfortunately).

To access the text online while you are on campus, simply search Pegasus for the book’s title and click on the link for the online text.  From the Table of Contents menu, select the third chapter, “The Future of the Serial Form,” and then select the section entitled “Audiences and Power.”

To access the text online from an off-campus computer, follow the same instructions as above after you’ve followed the “Off-Campus Login” link on the main library page.

Please email me if you have any trouble accessing the text!

Class 4 Plans

Don’t forget that we meet in the Literature.Culture.Media Center on Tuesday, October 7!

In class we’ll be making final arrangements for the serial fiction writing groups, setting up your group’s blog, and setting dates for each group to lead discussion.

For Tuesday, please read:

-Ch. 7-9 of David Copperfield

-Ch. 1-2 of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and browse http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/ for background information on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his methods of serial authorship

-”Authorship” by Graham Law (Course Reader)

Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero…

Cover of David Copperfield Number 1, May 1849

We’re starting David Copperfield this week!

For our next class meeting (Tuesday September 30), you’ll need to read the following:

-David Copperfield Ch. 1-3

-Paulina Kewes, “‘Give me the sociable pocket books…’: Humphrey Moseley’s Serial Publication of Octavo Play Collections” (Handout from class, also in your course reader when it becomes available)

And please remember to bring your completed Series Brainstorm Questionnaire with you.

Welcome!

Welcome to English 10LC: Serial Media.

This is where you can find the course syllabus, course assignment calendar, and links to online assignments.  Soon you’ll also be able to find links to some exciting, original installments of fiction series written by Serial Media students.