Intro to Literary Criticism, Harris, SJSU

Date	Topic	Reading Due	Assignment Due
Thur 1/22	Introductions: Me, You, Lit Crit	Greensheet Policies & Schedule Letters from Previous Students Handout Hints for Reading Fiction Syllabus Policies & Schedule Discussion Linguistics, Cloud Tagging & the Value of Literary Criticism	Student Questionnaire
Tues 1/27		Heart of Darkness (17-46) Handout Critical Model Presentation & Essay Instructions	Discuss & Sign up for Critical Model Presentation (via email by Wednesday 5pm)
See Authors & Discuss Books at the CLA Events (www.litart.org)
Thur 1/29		Heart of Darkness (47-95)	OCE: Intellectual Autobiography 600 words, typed, email by Monday, 5pm
Tues 2/3	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	Discuss Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Assignment
Thur 2/5	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)	ICE
Tues 2/10	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) Note: Last day to add courses & register late (no exceptions)
Thur 2/12	Structuralism	NTC: Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics" (960-977 NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57) Handouts: Student ICE Example (sent via email) ********************** ~~Library Session~~ -- moved to 2/19; schedule amended Rm. 217, King Library Instructor: Toby Matoush TC:** Chp 9 Investigating the Work [Research Strategies] (267-98)	Presentation: Gustavo Quintero, Frye ~~ICE~~ ************* InfoPower Online Tutorial ~~(The score from the tutorial quiz will be an OCE)~~ --** moved from 2/12
Tues 2/17	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) Note: Enrollment Census Date 2/18	ICE (moved from 2/12)
Thur 2/19	Library Session -- moved from 2/12; schedule amended Rm. 125, King Library (please note room change!) Instructor: Toby Matoush TC: Chp 9 Investigating the Work [Research Strategies] (267-98)		InfoPower Online Tutorial (The score from the tutorial quiz will be an OCE) -- moved from 2/12
Tues 2/24		HOD: "What is Deconstruction" (HoD 185-200) TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (107-122 & 140-42)
Thur 2/26		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 Thur. (added 1/22/09) Discussion Summary of Fish Article, Explanation of Deconstruction & Strategies for Application (KH Lecture Notes)	OCE Presentation: Dominique White, "From Work to Text" ~~Samara Meir-Levi, "Death of the Author"~~
Tues 3/3		NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) (moved from 2/26) NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36) HOD: Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (206-220)	Presentations: Samara Meir-Levi, "Death of the Author" (moved from 2/26) Dominika Bialek, Foucault
Thur 3/5	Psychoanalytical Criticism	TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (199-209 & 223-24) NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56)	Presentations: Kris Anderson, "Uncanny" Al Breneman, "Fetishism" OCE
Tues 3/10		NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92)	Presentation: Dustin Coleman, Mulvey
Thur 3/12	CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO INSTRUCTOR ILLNESS ~~Marxism~~	TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (158-161) NTC: Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" (769-773) NTC: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54)	presentations moved to 3/17 ~~ICE/OCE~~
Tues 3/17	Marxism	TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (158-161) NTC: Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" (769-773) NTC: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54) 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	Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Presentation: Nathan Garavaglia, Marx Kristina Casto, Wilson David Taylor, Benjamin
Thur 3/19	New Historicism	Meet in Steinbeck Center for a peek into Steinbeck Historical Materials HOD: "What is New Historicism" (221-33)	OCE
Tues 3/24	SPRING BREAK
Thur 3/26	SPRING BREAK
Tues 3/31	CESAR CHAVEZ DAY - CAMPUS CLOSED
Thur 4/2	New Historicism (contd)	NTC: Greenblatt, "Introduction to The Power of Forms" (2251-54) NTC: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2460-75)	Presentation: David Wans, Greenblatt Mark Cuen, Knapp & Michaels Revised Steinbeck OCE due Fri 5pm, via email
Tues 4/7		HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-57) HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16)	ICE (added 4/2/09)
Thur 4/9	Anglo-American Feminism	TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (227-43 & 261-63) HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-61) NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29) Handouts OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism	ICE/OCE
Tues 4/14		NTC: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35) HOD: Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (169-84) Online: Gubar, "Feminism Inside Out" (PMLA 121.5) Resources Definition, Masculinity Studies Masculinity Studies Reader Note: Guest visit from Prof. Sandra Gilbert, Lurie Chair � to be confirmed	Presentation: Julia Abb, Gilbert/Gubar
Thur 4/16		Andy Warhol Exhibit @ San Jose Museum of Art Cost: $2 w/SJ Public Library card or $5 w/Student ID on your own	OCE: due Mon, 4/20 by 5pm via email
Tues 4/21	Gender Studies & Queer Theory	NTC: Sedgwick excerpts, Between Men (2434-38) & Epistemology of the Closet (2438-45) Online: "Forum: Conference Debates" (PMLA 121.5) Handouts "Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article Definition of Queer Theory (various sources)	Presentation: Rosalinda Verceluz, Between
Thur 4/23	Writing Workshop & Catch-Up Day	Writing Workshop & General Discussions about Criticism & Theory	ICE
Tues 4/28	Cultural Criticism	HOD: What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1880-94)	Presentation: Jason Moore, Ohmann
Thur 4/30	Race & Ethnicity Studies	NTC: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23) NTC: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17) Handouts "Harlem," Langston Hughes	Presentation: Jonathan Poso, Anzaldua David Chiem, Hughes ~~OCE~~
Tues 5/5		HOD: Brantlinger article (277-298) NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94)	Presentation: Kendal White, Achebe Revised Annotated Bibliography Entry due @ beginning of class (added 4/28/09)
Thur 5/7	Postmodernism	NTC: Lyotard "Defining Postmodernism" (1612-15) NTC: Jameson "Postmodernism" (1960-74) Online: "The Sitcom Digresses" (NYT Magazine) Just for Fun Liberal Lies on Fox News (video) Did You Know 2.0 (video)	OCE (due via email, Friday by 5pm)
Tues 5/12	Review	Online: You Know You've Done too Much Theory When (Cartoon) Online: "Think You Know How to Read, Do You?" Handout: "How 'bout that Wordsworth!" (3-4) Added Hypertext Novel Handout Final Exam Essay Instructions (not distributed online)	Discuss Final Exam Essay

Final Exam Submit Essay by Monday, May 18, 10am to my office (FO 220) or English Dept. (FO 102) (instructions given during last class meeting)

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