Date
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Topic |
Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
Thur 8/24 |
Introductions: Me,
You, Lit Crit |
Greensheet Policies & Schedule
Handouts:
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Student Questionnaire |
Tues 8/29 |
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Heart of
Darkness, pp.17-46
"Little Red Riding Hood," Politically Correct Bedtime
Stories (HO)
Handouts:
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Discuss & Sign up
for
Presentations
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Thur 8/31 |
No Class Meeting |
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Intellectual
Autobiography (600 words, typed, double-spaced) �
counts as an In-Class Essay; email to me by 5pm |
Tues 9/5 |
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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
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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)
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Presentation:
Nick Colucci (New Criticism,
Brooks article) |
Thur 9/14 |
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Choose a passage from Heart of
Darkness that can be used to explain New Criticism
Handouts:
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In-Class Essay |
Tues 9/19 |
Structuralism |
NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57) Handouts:
Critical Review Essay
Note: Enrollment Census Date 9/20
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Thur 9/21 |
No Class Meeting |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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
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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 |
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"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 |
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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)
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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
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FINAL EXAM:
Tuesday, December 12, 9:45-12pm |
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