SCHEDULE of READINGS
Introduction to Literary Criticism
English 101, Section 2  (Spring 2008)
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 (print for class)
ICE = In-Class Essay
OCE = Out-of-Class Emailed Essay

 

Office Hours: T/R 1:30-2:30pm & 4:30-5:30pm
Office:  FO 220
Phone: 408.924.4475
Email: kharris@email.sjsu.edu


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Date


Topic

Reading Due

Assignment Due
Tues 8/26 Introductions: Me, You, Lit Crit Why Literary Criticism?
Greensheet Policies & Schedule
Letters from Previous Students
Hints for Reading Fiction
Student Questionnaire
Thur 8/28   CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO INSTRUCTOR'S FAMILY EMERGENCY  

See Authors & Discuss Books at the CLA Events (www.litart.org)

Tues 9/2   Heart of Darkness, pp.17-95

Handout
Critical Model Presentation & Essay Instructions
Discuss & Sign up for Critical Model Presentation (via email by Wednesday 5pm)
Thur 9/4 What is Literary Criticism? TC: Introduction & Critical Worlds (3-37)
NTC
: Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" (2243-2249)
HOD
: "A Critical History of HoD" (99-114)

Handouts:
ICE Writing Tips
Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Instructions

Note: Last day to drop courses without "W" on record 9/5

Discuss Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Assignment

OCE: Intellectual Autobiography 600 words, typed, email by Monday, 5pm

Tues 9/9 Formalism NTC: Eichenbaum "Theory of the �Formal Method�" (1062-87)

Relevant Info:
Gogol Synopsis
Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"

Skaz

Note: Last day to add courses & register late (no exceptions) 9/12
ICE/OCE (deleted 8/26/08)
Thur 9/11 New Criticism TC: Chp 3 Unifying the Work (39-52 & 63-64)
NTC
: Brooks, "Heresy of Paraphrase" & "The Formalist Critic" (1353-71)
NTC: Ransom "Criticism, Inc." (1108-18)


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

Student ICE Example

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

Presentation:
Natalie Hale, Brooks

OCE: Due by Monday, 5pm via email

Tues 9/16 Structuralism  

(9/16 & 9/18 revised to move Library Session to 9/23)

NTC: Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics" (960-977
NTC
: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57)
Presentation:
Anna Baryudin, Saussure
Thur 9/18 Post-Structuralism (Reader-Response) TC: Chp 4 "Creating the Text" (67-84 & 103)
HOD: "
What is Reader-Response Criticism?" (115-126)
HOD: Rabinowitz, "Reader Response, Reader Responsibility" (131-147)
 
NTC: Iser "Interaction" (1673-82) 

Handouts:
Student ICE Example (moved from 9/11)

Note: Enrollment Census Date 9/22

Presentation:
Joelle Driver, Iser

 

Tues 9/23

Library Session
Rm. 217, King Library
Instructor: Toby Matoush

TC: Chp 9 Investigating the Work [Research Strategies] (267-98)
(moved from 9/16)

InfoPower Online Tutorial (The score from the tutorial quiz will be an OCE)

 

 

Thur 9/25 Post-Structuralism (Deconstruction)  HOD: "What is Deconstruction" (HoD 185-200)
TC
: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (107-122 & 140-42)
ICE/OCE
Tues 9/30  

NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) & "From Work to Text" (1470-75)
NTC
: Fish "Interpreting" (2071-89)

Added Reading for help with writing
TC
(122-34) -- be prepared to use this for an in-class writing on Tues.
(added 9/25)

Discussion
Summary of Fish Article, Explanation of Deconstruction & Strategies for Application (KH Lecture Notes)

OCE: due Mon, 5pm, via email (prompt provided in class)

Thur 10/2  

NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36)
HOD: Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (206-220)

Presentations:
Larry Chu, Foucault

ICE (quiz probably on Foucault article)

Tues 10/7 Psychoanalytical Criticism TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (199-209 & 223-24)
NTC
: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56)
Presentations:
Yolanda Perez, "Uncanny"
Eva Rizzo, "Fetishism"
Thur 10/9

Meet in Steinbeck Center
for a peek into Steinbeck Historical Materials

OCE: Due by Monday, 5pm via email

Tues 10/14 Psychoanalytical Criticism (contd.)

NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92)

Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay
Thur 10/16  

Robots Exhibit @ San Jose Museum of Art
http://www.sjmusart.org/ Cost: $2 w/SJ Public Library card or $5 w/Student ID
on your own

OCE: Due by Monday, 5pm via email
Tues 10/21 Marxism TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (158-161)
NTC
: Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" (769-773)
NTC
: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54)
Presentations:
Jenny McCaffery, Marx
Carl Ponzio, Wilson
Thur 10/23   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

Presentations:
Chad Bojorquez, Benjamin

ICE/OCE
Tues 10/28 New Historicism HOD: "What is New Historicism" (221-233)
NTC: Greenblatt, "Introduction to The Power of Forms" (2251-2254)
NTC
: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2460-2475)
Presentations:
Brandon Roos, Greenblatt
Danielle Prosser, Knapp & Michaels
Thur 10/30   HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-257)
TC:
155-58
(added 8/26/08)
HOD:
"Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16)

ICE/OCE
 

Tues 11/4 Anglo-American Feminism TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (227-243 & 261-63)
HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-161)
NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29)

Handouts
OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism

Presentation:
Jennifer Davis, Woolf
Thur 11/6   NTC: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35)
HOD: Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (169-184)
Online: Gubar, "Feminism Inside Out" (PMLA 121.5)
Presentation:
Nicole French, Gilbert & Gubar

OCE

Tues 11/11

VETERAN'S DAY - NO CLASS

Thur 11/13

Gender Studies & Queer Theory

NTC: Sedgwick excerpts, Between Men (2434-38) & Epistemology of the Closet (2438-45)
Online: "Forum: Conference Debates" (PMLA 121.5)
added 8/26/08

Handouts
"Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article
Definition of Queer Theory (various sources)
Presentation:
Joshua Suarez, Between Men
Rebecca Daily, Epistemology

ICE/OCE
Tues 11/18 Writing Workshop & Catch-Up Day Writing Workshop & General Discussions about Criticism & Theory  
Thur 11/20 Cultural Criticism HOD: What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271)
NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1880-1894)
Presentation:
Clarissa Basuil, Ohmann

ICE/OCE

 
Tues 11/25 Race & Ethnicity Studies NTC: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23)
NTC
: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17)

Handouts
"Harlem," Langston Hughes
Presentation:
Tia Rath, Anzaldua
Samantha Rodriguez, Hughes

Revised Annotated Bibliography Entry (discussed in class -- No Handout) (added 11/18/08)

Thur 11/27

THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS
 

Tues 12/2

Continue working on Race & Ethnicity Studies

 

HOD: Brantlinger article (277-298)
NTC
: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94)
Presentation:
Allegra Imazio Jones, Achebe
Thur 12/4 Postmodernism NTC: Lyotard "Defining Postmodernism" (1612-15)
NTC
: Jameson "Postmodernism" (1960-74)
Presentation:
Robin Bravo, Jameson
Jeffrey Ying, Lyotard

ICE
Tues 12/9 Review Online: You Know You've Done too Much Theory When (Cartoon)
Online: "Think You Know How to Read, Do You?"

Handout
Final Exam Essay Instructions (not distributed online)

Discuss Final Exam Essay



Final Exam Meeting
Essays Due & In-Class Writing

Tues, December 16, 9:45am-12pm

(instructions given during last class meeting)
 

Readings for  Final Exam Essay
None of Us Will Return, Charlotte Delbo (pdf)
Spring 2009 Course Descriptions, Department of English & Comparative Literature, SJSU
 

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