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
ICE = In-Class Essay
OCE = Out-of-Class Emailed Essay
Office Hours:
T/R 2-3pm & 4:30-5pm
Office: FO 220
Phone: 408.924.4475
Email: kharris@email.sjsu.edu
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Reading Due |
Assignment Due |
| Thur 1/24 | Introductions: Me, You, Lit Crit |
Why Literary Criticism? Greensheet Policies & Schedule Letters from Previous Students Hints for Reading Fiction |
Student Questionnaire |
| Tues 1/29 | Heart of
Darkness, pp.17-46 Handout Critical Model Presentation & Essay Instructions |
Discuss & Sign up for Critical Model Presentation (via email by Wednesday 5pm) | |
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See Authors & Discuss Books at the CLA Events (www.litart.org) |
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| Thur 1/31 | Heart of Darkness,
pp.47-95 Note: Last day to drop courses without "W" on record 2/4 |
OCE: Intellectual Autobiography 600 words, typed, email by Sunday, 5pm | |
| Tues 2/5 | 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: |
Discuss Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Assignment |
| Thur 2/7 | 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) 2/11 |
ICE/OCE |
| Tues 2/12 | 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: Leanne Lobue, Brooks OCE: Due by Sunday, 5pm via email |
| Thur 2/14 |
Library Session TC: Chp 9 Investigating the Work [Research Strategies] (267-98) |
InfoPower Online Tutorial (The score from the tutorial quiz will be an OCE) | |
| Tues 2/19 | Structuralism |
NTC: Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics"
(960-977 NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57) Note: Enrollment Census Date |
Presentation: Colleen Burke, Frye |
| Thur 2/21 |
Post-Structuralism (Reader-Response) |
TC: Chp 4 "Creating the Text"
(67-84 & 103) |
Presentation: Matt Schembri, Iser OCE: Due Monday by 5pm via email |
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| Tues 2/26 | Post-Structuralism (Deconstruction) |
HOD: "What is Deconstruction" (HoD 185-200) TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (107-122 & 140-42) |
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| Thur 2/28 |
CLASS CANCELLED
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| Tues 3/4 |
NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) & "From
Work to Text" (1470-75)
NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36) |
Presentations: Stephanie Cianciarulo, Barthes Deborah Godinez, Foucault |
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| Thur 3/6 | Psychoanalytical Criticism |
TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work"
(199-209 & 223-24) NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56) |
Presentation: Levi Lam, Freud "Uncanny" OCE: due by Monday, 5pm via email |
| Tues 3/11 | NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92) |
Presentation: Margie Brasil, Mulvey |
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| Thur 3/13 |
Meet in
Steinbeck
Center |
OCE: due by Monday, 5pm via email | |
| Tues 3/18 | Marxism |
TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text"
(158-161) NTC: Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" (769-773) NTC: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54) |
Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Presentation: Yolanda Perez, Wilson |
| Thur 3/20 |
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 |
ICE/OCE | |
| Tues 3/25 |
SPRING BREAK |
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| Tues 4/1 | 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) |
Presentation: Michel Widman, Greenblatt Sasha
Wallace, Knapp & Michaels |
| Thur 4/3 |
HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-257) TC: 155-58 HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16) |
Presentation: Hazel Laguardia, Thomas ICE/OCE |
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| Tues 4/8 | Anglo-American Feminism |
TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text"
(227-243 & 261-63) NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29) NTC: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35) Handouts OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism |
Presentation: Madison Brewer, Woolf Amanda Byler, Gilbert/Gubar |
| Thur 4/10 |
HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism"
(148-161) HOD: Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (169-184) |
ICE/OCE |
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| Tues 4/15 |
Writing Workshop & Catch-Up Day |
Writing Workshop & General Discussions about Criticism & Theory | |
| Thur 4/17 | Gender Studies & Queer Theory |
NTC: Sedgwick excerpts, Between Men
(2434-38) & Epistemology of the Closet (2438-45) Handouts "Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article Definition of Queer Theory (various sources) |
OCE due Monday by 5pm via email Presentation: Crystle Bruno, Between |
| Tues 4/22 | Cultural Criticism |
HOD:
What is Cultural Criticism" (HoD
258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1880-1894) |
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| Thur 4/24 | Race & Ethnicity Studies |
NTC: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23) NTC: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17) Handouts (print yourself) "Harlem," Langston Hughes |
Presentation: Melissa Garcia, Anzaldua Thuy Nguyen, Hughes |
| Tues 4/29 | Class Cancelled |
NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94) |
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| Thur 5/1 |
Continue working on Race & Ethnicity Studies
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HOD: Brantlinger article (HoD 277-298) NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94) |
Presentation: Adriana Handano, Achebe (moved from 4/29)
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| Tues 5/6 |
Postmodernism Visit from special guest, Erin Angell |
NTC: Lyotard "Defining
Postmodernism" (1612-15) NTC: Jameson "Postmodernism" (1960-74) |
Presentation: Jamie Acosta, Lyotard |
| Thurs 5/8 | Hypertext |
NTC: Moulthrop "Hypertext" (2504) Online: McGann "Literary Scholarship in the Digital Future" Online: Silver, "Introducing Cyberculture" Online: Montfort, "The Hypertext Murder Case"
Handout |
ICE/OCE Presentation: Jennifer Fountain, Moulthrop |
| Tues 5/13 | Review |
Online:
You
Know You've Done too Much Theory When (Cartoon) Online: "Think You Know How to Read, Do You?" Online: Select an article from New Horizons |
Discuss Final Exam Essay |
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Readings for
Final Exam Essay |
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