English 526 | Fall 2007 The Edge Probing Geographic & Psychological Borderlands Hey, all you comp lit, english, spanish, chicano studies lit heads! you like living on the edge? inhabit the slippery sliding fringes of a giant culture machine? revel in ambiguity, ambivalence? are you ambidextrous? love the border ambience where night becomes day and day night, codes switch, morphing is the name of the game with its shifting rules? then English 526 The Edge is for you. The naked edge, the broken code, the generative volcanic matrix of the new made up of a wild bricolage of languages, signifiers, unstable identities. In short, poetry, fiction, essays, criticism: anthropology, sociology, border-ology, edge-ology. Required weekly readings will form a basis for the examination of borders or edges between nations, ethnic groups, genders, modes of discourse, languages, disciplines, and art media, among others. Formal requirements include the prescribed readings, a final examination, and weekly written responses to readings. Note: Your tour guide to this multiply mapped yet unknown wilderness is Harry Polkinhorn--poet, critic, translator, psychoanalyst, publisher, border-ologist. Thursdays 3:30-6:10  | Hepner Hall 210 | schedule # 12062 | Open to ALL majors; graduate students AND undergraduates.  Prerequisites? Curiosity and an open-mind.