Date |
Lecture/Discussion |
Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
Friday 8/26 |
Introductions |
Theory Query: Who said "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle"? |
|
9/2 |
Formalism |
- TC: Introduction & Critical Worlds (3-34)
- NTC: Eichenbaum �Theory of the ‛Formal Method'� (1062-87)
- NTC: Ransom �Criticism, Inc.� (1108-18)
Theory Query: Formalism and Positivism
Lecture Notes: Formalism & New Criticism
Handouts: Pound's Poem (Historical)
Synopsis of Gogol's "Overcoat"
Definition of "skaz" |
No Office Hours
INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
In-Class Essay (Prompt)
Top |
9/9 |
New Criticism |
- TC: Chp 3 Unifying the Work (37-57)
- NTC: Brooks, "Heresy of Paraphrase" & "The Formalist Critic" (1353-71)
Handouts:
Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - Excerpts
Eliot reads his poem
See Full
Text and more Audio & Historical Material
|
Discuss Presentation/Essay
Discuss
Effective In-Class Essay
In-Class Essay (Prompt) |
9/16 |
Structuralism & Post-Structuralism (Reader- Response) |
- NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57)
- TC: Chp 4 "Creating the Text" (61-93)
- NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) & "From Work to Text" (1470-75)
- NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36)
|
Discuss Critical Review Essay
In-Class Essay (Prompt) |
9/23 |
Post-Structuralism (Reader-Response & Deconstruction) |
- TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (97-129)
- NTC: Johnson "Melville's Fist" (2319-37)
- NTC: Iser "Interaction" (1673-82)
- NTC: Fish "Interpreting" (2071-89)
- Online: Derrida Archive Fever
|
Give
Turnitin: How To,
Turnitin: Submitting & Password (in-class) Student Presentations:
1)
Huma, Iser, "Interaction"
(see Notes from
Huma's presentation)
In-Class Essay (Prompt) |
9/30 |
Psychoanalytical Criticism |
- TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (183-208)
- NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56)
- NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92)
|
CRITICAL REVIEW ESSAY
Student Presentations
1) Mark, Freud, "Fetishism"
(see
Notes from Mark's presentation)
2) Mirina, Mulvey, "Visual
Pleasures" |
10/7 |
Marxism |
|
Student Presentations
1) Jennifer, Benjamin, "Work"
In-Class Essay (Prompt)
Mid-Term Course Evaluation
Top |
10/14 |
Mid-Term Exam Prep |
- See "The Matrix" in preparation for mid-term exam
|
Discuss Mid-Term Exam
(no online handout)
"The Matrix" on IRC reserve
Due by 5pm Monday, 10/24 (English
Dept. mailbox FO 102) |
10/21 |
|
Class Cancelled
Mid-Term Essay
due 5pm Monday, 10/24 |
|
10/28 |
Feminist, Post-Feminist & Queer Theory (New Historicism) |
- TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (211-241)
- NTC: Woolf Room (1021-29)
- NTC: Beauvoir Second Sex (1406-1414)
Handouts: OED "feminist"
& "feminism"
definitions |
Student Presentations
1) Kari, Woolf, Room
2) Kimberly, Beauvoir,
Second Sex
In-Class Essay (Prompt) |
11/4 |
Queer Theory |
- NTC: Sedgwick Between Men (2434-38) & Epistomology of the Closet (2438-45)
- NTC: Gilbert/Gubar Madwoman (2023-35)
- NTC: Bordo Unbearable Weight (2362-76)
Handouts:
Queer Theory Definitions & Literary Text |
Student Presentations
1) Shawn, Between Men,
"Crying Game"
2) Lynesshia, Epistomology
In-Class Essay (Prompt) |
11/11 |
Post-Colonial & Cultural Studies (New Historicism) |
- NTC: Anzaldua Borderlands (2211-23)
- NTC: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17)
- Online: "Harlem" (Poem)
- NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94)
- Online: Excerpts from Conrad's Heart of Darkness UVA E-Text: 80-86 (slavery)
& 93-98 (moon)
|
Student Presentations
1)
Victor, Achebe
2) Monecia, "Negro Artists"
3) Chris, Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman
& Cisneros
4) Raphael, Derrida, Archive
Fever
In-Class Essay (Prompt)Top |
11/18 |
Postmodernism |
- NTC: Lyotard "Defining Postmodernism" (1612-15)
- NTC: Jameson "Postmodernism" (1960-74)
- NTC: Haraway "Cyborg Manifesto" (2269-99)
- NTC: hooks "Postmodern Blackness" (2478-84)
Handouts: Great
Expectations
A,
B,
C,
D
&
Warhol's Art |
Student Presentations
1)
Rachel, Haraway's Cyborgs
2) Charles, hooks
In-Class Essay (Prompt) |
11/25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday � No Class
Note: Pride & Prejudice, San Jose Rep Theater (11/26-12/30)
*Student & Group Discounts
*Post-show discussion w/actors after Matinee
|
12/2 |
New Trends in Theory:
Hyper-Libraries, Dynamic (User-Driven)
Websites, Hypertextual Readers, Authors, Writers (Bloggers?) |
Handout:
You
Know You've Done too Much Theory When:
Cartoon |
Discuss Final Exam Essay
(no online handout)
Student Presentations
1)
Lance, Moulthrop |
Final Exam Readings:
Charlotte Delbo,
None of Us Will
Return
(literature)
September 11th Digital Archive
(website)
Young Frankenstein (movie;
on reserve in IRC 120, Call No. 266)
Texts & Contexts (our handbook)
|
FINAL EXAM:
Wednesday, December 14 (no meeting)
Final Essay Due by
2pm (Also Submit to
Turnitin.com)
Final In-Class
Essay Due
(Prompt)
(Pick up
graded Presentation Essays)
Top |