Analysis of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
- Review = Essay 3 Prompt: Analysis of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
- Complete reading entire book = Maggie Nelson – BLUETS – Free Full Text – Required for Essay 3.pdf
- The purpose of this assignment is to collectively come up with a collective bank to draw from. What you submit does not have to be what you end up writing about. You might alter your own submission or use a classmate’s submission to expand upon.
INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT:
- TOPIC: Specific, but general. Your declaration of Nelson’s topic does not and should not contain an argument
- THESIS: Your thesis should encompass both of the following:
- Select one: Does the content control the structure (new form: partially leans on preexisting forms)? Or does the structure control the content (new genre: full experimental).
- Explore how Bluets queers (subverts/challenges) the traditional linear narrative arch to renegotiate the readership experience.
- EVIDENCE:Since you will not analyze the book in its entirety, you must select propositions that are most representative of the book’s topic vs. theme/thesis to provide a unique new type of genre name. Select 12-15 numbered propositions; then, type them all out (include proposition # & page #).
All of your proposition selections must share 1 topic; 1 theme/thesis; 1 genre. I gave you three examples below, but you only need to submit one set. - GENRE:Come up with a new creative genre name that does not over lap with current existing genres to best describe Bluets.
| SAMPLE TOPIC | SAMPLE Theme/Thesis | SAMPLE EVIDENCE | SAMPLE GENRE |
| Topic = general; does not contain argument | Theme/Thesis = must contain debatable argument; avoid summary and avoid obvious statements of facts
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Evidence = Numbered Proposition | New Creative Genre |
| Conversation with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Color Theory and poets, painters, philosophers | Maggie Nelson’s speaker relies on intertextual conversations to take inventory and contextualize her pain and obsessive of blue objects. | 8, 23, 24, 25, 36, 111, 117, 183, 191, 196. // 5, 12, 31, 32, 54, 55, 58, 61, 74, 77, 78, 79, 98, 105, 106, 107 (hurt color), 108, 110, 111, 143 (V.Woolf), 135, 137, 138, 150, 161 + 168 + 227(Wittgenstein), 181, 182, 183, 186, 197, 207, 208, 210, 231, 234, 236. | literary junkyard -or-
literary fragments |
| Prince of Blue vs. Artistic Process | Nelson’s speaker’s inability to let go of a failed relationship parallels her prolonged process of making art. The birth of a finished project and the acceptance of herself without the Prince of Blue result in a painful acceptance of the death of the process. | 14, 18, 19, 28, 96, 116, 18, 185, 188, 212, 238 // 9, 13, 20, 37, 42, 70, 121, 130, 154, 156, 160, 178, 184, 193, 195, 196, 200, 201, 206. // 10, 100, 115, 131, 161, 216, 232, 237. | blue encyclopedia;
anti-mantras; meditation on paralysis |
| Friendship v. Guilt | Nelson’s speaker wants to prolong her obsession with blue in order to combat the guilt of her able-body and sexuality in regards to her paraplegic friend. | 22, 26, 92, 99, 102, 103, 104, 109, 119, 218, 228. | therapeutic diary;
poetic self help; fragments on internal conflict |
