Date
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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 |
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CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO
INSTRUCTOR'S FAMILY EMERGENCY |
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See Authors & Discuss Books at the
CLA Events (www.litart.org) |
Tues 9/2 |
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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
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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) |
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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 |
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NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36)
HOD: Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (206-220)
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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 |
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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 |
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Final Exam Meeting
Essays Due & In-Class Writing
Tues,
December 16, 9:45am-12pm
(instructions
given during last class meeting)
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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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