SCHEDULE of READINGS
Introduction to Literary Criticism
English 101, Fall 2006
Dr. Katherine D. Harris

Syllabus subject to change
 

Legend of Symbols, etc.
TC = Texts & Contexts
NTC = Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism
HoD = Heart of Darkness
Online = Web hyperlink
HO = Handout

 

Office Hours: M 12-1:45pm
T/Th 3-4pm
Office:  FO 220
Phone: 408.924.4475
Email: kharris@email.sjsu.edu


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Mid-Term Exam    Final Exam


Date


Topic

Reading Due

Assignment Due
Thur 8/24 Introductions: Me, You, Lit Crit Greensheet Policies & Schedule

Handouts:
 
Student Questionnaire
Tues 8/29   Heart of Darkness, pp.17-46
"Little Red Riding Hood," Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (HO)

Handouts:

 

Discuss & Sign up for Presentations

Thur 8/31 No Class Meeting    Intellectual Autobiography (600 words, typed, double-spaced) � counts as an In-Class Essay; email to me by 5pm 
Tues 9/5   Heart of Darkness, pp.47-95
"A Critical History of HoD" (HoD 99-114)
TC
: Introduction & Critical Worlds (3-34)

Handouts:
ICE Writing Tips

Note: Last day to drop courses without "W" on record

 

Thur 9/7 Formalism NTC: Eichenbaum "Theory of the �Formal Method�" (1062-87)
NTC
: Ransom "Criticism, Inc." (1108-18)


Handouts:
Gogol Synopsis
Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"
In-Class Essay
Tues 9/12 New Criticism TC: Chp 3 Unifying the Work (37-57)
NTC
: Brooks, "Heresy of Paraphrase" & "The Formalist Critic" (1353-71)


Handouts:
T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Note: Last day to add courses & register late (no exceptions)

Presentation:
Nick Colucci (New Criticism, Brooks article)
Thur 9/14   Choose a passage from Heart of Darkness that can be used to explain New Criticism

Handouts:
 

In-Class Essay
Tues 9/19 Structuralism   NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57)

Handouts:
Critical Review Essay

Note: Enrollment Census Date 9/20

 
Thur 9/21

No Class Meeting 

  In-Class Essay (Emailed by 5pm) --
instructions given in class
Tues 9/26 Post-Structuralism (Reader-Response) 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)
Presentation:
Joseph Nance (Reader-Response, Barthes article)
Thur 9/28   "What is Reader-Response Criticism?" (HoD 115-126)
Rabinowitz, "Reader Response, Reader Responsibility" (HoD 131-147)
 
In-Class Essay (Done in groups)
Tues 10/3 Post-Structuralism (Deconstruction)  TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (97-129)
NTC
: Iser "Interaction" (1673-82)
NTC
: Fish "Interpreting" (2071-89)
Presentation:
Cara Cameron (Deconstruction, Fish article)
Margaret Baze (Deconstruction, Iser article)
Thur 10/5   "What is Deconstruction" (HoD 185-200)
Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (HoD 206-220)

Discussion
Summary of Fish Article, Explanation of Deconstruction & Strategies for Application (KH Lecture Notes)
In-Class Essay (due Tues 4pm via email)

Presentation:
Jessica McCarthy (Deconstruction, Miller article)

Tues 10/10 Psychoanalytical Criticism TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (183-208)
NTC
: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56)

Discuss Mid-Term Essay (handout given in class; not distributed online)
Critical Review Essay

Emailed In-Class Essay by 4pm

Presentation:
Patricia Kelley (Psychoanalysis, Freud "Fetishism" article)
Thur 10/12

 

NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92) In-Class Essay (due Mon 4pm via email)

Presentation:
Nicole Smith (Psychoanalysis, Mulvey article)
Tues 10/17 Marxism TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (133-179)
NTC
: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54)
Emailed In-Class Essay by 4pm (instructions given in class)

Presentation:
Michael Cruz (Marxism, Wilson article)
Thur 10/19   NTC: Benjamin "Work of Art" (1166-86)

Discussion
Alice Journals, British Library's Turning the Pages

Hamlet's Soliloquy
La Tour's "Penitent Magdalene" & Mermaid reproduction
"Madame X" painting
 
 
Tues 10/24 New Historicism "What is New Historicism" (HoD 221)
Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (HoD 239-257)
Mid-Term Essay (moved from 10/19)

Presentation:
Erik Pangelinan (New Historicism, Thomas article)
Thur 10/26   "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (HoD 3-16) In-Class Essay
Tues 10/31 Feminist & Post-Feminist TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (211-241)
NTC
: Woolf Room (1021-29)
NTC
: Beauvoir Second Sex (1406-1414)

Handouts
OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism
Presentation:
Michele Celino (Feminist Theory, Woolf article)
Diana Woodhouse (Feminist Theory, Beauvoir article)
Thur 11/2   "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (HoD 148-161)
Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (HoD 169-184)
In-Class Essay (emailed by Monday, 4pm)

Presentation:
Katie Smith (Feminist Theory, Smith article)
Tues 11/7 Queer Theory NTC: Sedgwick Between Men (2434-38) & Epistemology of the Closet (2438-45)
NTC
: Gilbert/Gubar Madwoman (2023-35)

Handouts
Definition of Queer Theory (various sources)

"Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article (emailed after class)
Presentation:
Bryan Bance (Queer Theory, Sedgwick articles [do both])
Joseph Cabeca (Queer Theory, Gilbert/Gubar article)
Thur 11/9   Choose a passage from Heart of Darkness that can be used to explain Queer Theory
Bring Queer Theory handout & the Norton
In-Class Essay (emailed by Monday, 4pm)
Tues 11/14 Cultural Criticism IMPROMPTU VISIT TO "FAMILY LEGACIES" AND "LISTENING POST" EXHIBITS AT SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

Readings & Presentations moved to Thursday
Presentation:
moved to Thursday
Thur 11/16   What is Cultural Criticism" (HoD 258-271)
NTC
: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23)
NTC
: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17)
Brantlinger article (HoD 277-298)
NTC
: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94)

Handouts (print yourself)
"Harlem," Langston Hughes
In-Class Essay (emailed by Tuesday, 10am)

Presentation:
Nicole Westart (Cultural Criticism, Anzaldua article)
Veronica Solorzano (Cultural Criticism, Hughes article)

Shaun Lagdamen (Cultural Criticism, Brantlinger article)
Tues 11/21 Postmodernism  NTC: Lyotard "Defining Postmodernism" (1612-15)
NTC
: Jameson "Postmodernism" (1960-74)
In-class essay assigned last Thursday: due by 10am via email

Group 1 Mid-Terms: Optional Revise/Resubmit Deadline on Wednesday, 12pm (drop in my Dept. mailbox, FO 102)


Presentation:
Marisyn Camper (Postmodernism, Lyotard article)
Daniel Oglivie (Postmodernism, Jameson article)
Thur 11/23

 

Thanksgiving - No Class

 

Tues 11/28 Postmodern Feminism  NTC: Haraway "Cyborg Manifesto" (2269-99)
NTC
: hooks "Postmodern Blackness" (2478-84)

Discuss Final Exam Essay
Group 2 Mid-Terms: Optional Revise/Resubmit Deadline on Monday, 10:30am (drop in my Dept. mailbox, FO 102)

Presentation:
Mark Mukoyama (Postmodern Feminism, hooks article)
Thur 11/30 New Trends in Theory  NTC: Moulthrop "Hypertext" (2504)
Online
: Monke "Charlotte's Webpage"
In-Class Essay

Presentation:
Marina Jaramillo (New Trends in Theory�Hypertext, Moulthrop article)
Tues 12/5   Print: McGann "Literary Scholarship in the Digital Future," Term Paper Objections, Google's Proposal (website), Criticism of Google, Recent Google Article, Wikipedia Use Policy (proposal by Alan Liu), You Know You've Done too Much Theory When:  Cartoon, Description of Digital Literature Course
Review
: Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (website), Towards Tag Poetry (website), Wikipedia (website)
Group 3 Mid-Terms: Optional Revise/Resubmit Deadline on Monday, 12am (drop in my Dept. mailbox, FO 102)

Presentation:
Ahmed Al-Sheikh (New Trends in Theory, McGann article)
Thurs 12/7 Review for Final Exam  Visit to Steinbeck Center
 
Meet in King Library in front of Steinbeck Center (5th Floor)

Handouts
Final Exam Essay Instructions (not distributed online)
 
OCE - Out of Class Email (ICE)
Due Monday 12pm (300-500 words)


Readings for Final Exam (Pick One)
:
Wikipedia

None of Us Will Return, Charlotte Delbo
The Simpsons Go to New York Episode (on reserve in IRC 120)
Department of English & Comparative Literature Newsletter
 

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, December 12, 9:45-12pm

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