Intro to Literary Criticism, Harris, SJSU

Date	Topic	Reading Due	Assignment Due
Thur 1/27	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 Pulp Fiction as Typography (video) Obama State of the Union analyzed	Student Questionnaire OCE: Intellectual Autobiography 600 words, typed, due by Monday, 12pm via email
Tue 2/1		Heart of Darkness (17-46) Handout Critical Model Presentation & Essay Instructions	Discuss & Sign up for Critical Model Presentation (via email by Wed 12pm)
Thur 2/3	NO CLASS -- HARRIS OUT SICK (already!)	Heart of Darkness (47-95)	OCE: Plagiarism Tutorial (email scores by 12pm)
Tue 2/8	What is Literary Criticism?	TC: Introduction & Critical Worlds (3-37) TC: Appendix 2 "A Note on How Theories Relate" (256-59) NTC: Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" (2140-46) HOD: "A Critical History of HoD" ( 99-114) Discussion TaPor Heart of Darkness E-Text Did You Know? Handouts ICE Writing Tips Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Instructions Discussion How to submit Annotated Bibliography materials (wiki, Dropbox?) Using Zotero to keep track of research (maybe a voluntary computer lab day?)	Discuss Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Assignment
Thurs 2/10	Formalism	NTC: Eichenbaum "Theory of the �Formal Method�" (925-51) NTC: Ransom "Criticism, Inc." (971-82) Relevant Info: Gogol Synopsis Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" Skaz	ICE
Tue 2/15	New Criticism	TC: Chp 3 Unifying the Work (37-49 & 60-61) NTC: Brooks, "Heresy of Paraphrase" (1217-29) NTC: Wimsatt & Beardsley "The Intentional Fallacy" & "The Affective Fallacy" (1232-61)	Reztyleen Dori, "The Intentional Fallacy" Wimsatt & Beardsley Emma Furtado, "The Affective Fallacy" Wimsatt & Beardsley
Thur 2/17	Structuralism	NTC: Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics" (850-66) NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1304-15) TC: Structuralism & Semiotics (104-5)	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Nick Olney, Frye
Tue 2/22	Reader-Response	TC: Chp 4 "Creating the Text" (65-80 & 99) HOD: "What is Reader-Response Criticism?" (115-126)HOD: Rabinowitz, "Reader Response, Reader Responsibility" (131-147) NTC: Iser "Interaction" (1524-32) Online: Don Draper Says "What"	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Rachel Eastin, Iser
Thur 2/24	Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction	HOD: "What is Deconstruction" ( 185-200) TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (103-117 & 134-36)	OCE due Monday by 5pm
Tue 3/1	Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction	NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1322-26) TC: Chp. 5 Writing help (117-29) Discussion How to Read Poetry	Tommy Trull, Barthes
Thur 3/3	Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction	NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1475-90) HOD: Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" ( 206-220)	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Matthew Won, Foucault
Tue 3/8	Psychoanalytical Criticism	TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (191-200 & 214-15) NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (824-41) & "Fetishism" (841-45)	Shane Diven, "Fetishism," Freud Katrina Swanson, "The 'Uncanny'" Freud
Thur 3/10	Marxism	TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (139-40 & 150-55)NTC: Trotsky, "The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism" (880-92) NTC: Williams, "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory" (1423-37)	OCE due Monday by 5pm Brittani Leslie, Trotsky Justin Hunter, Williams
Tue 3/15	Marxism	NTC: Benjamin "Work of Art" (1051-71) Discussion Alice Journals, British Library's Turning the Pages Hamlet's Soliloquy La Tour's "Penitent Magdalene" & Mermaid reproduction "Madame X" painting	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Ashley Guin, Benjamin
Thur 3/17	LIBRARY/ RESEARCH TUTORIAL	Meet in library (Rm 213)	OCE: InfoPower Tutorial (email scores by 12pm)
Tue 3/22	~~New Historicism~~ NO CLASS -- HARRIS OUT SICK	NTC: Greenblatt, excerpt from Resonance and Wonder (2150-61) NTC: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2491-2506) TC: various entries (140-150 & 158-60 & 179-89)	~~Katie Luttrell, Greenblatt~~ ~~Cristal Renteria, Knapp & Michaels~~
Thur 3/24	New Historicism	NTC: Greenblatt, excerpt from Resonance and Wonder (2150-61) NTC: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2491-2506) TC: various entries (140-150 & 158-60 & 179-89) -- (MOVED FROM 3/22) HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-257) HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16) TC: Writing a New Historical Essay (173-178 & 179-89)	Katie Luttrell, Greenblatt -- (MOVED FROM 3/22) Cristal Renteria, Knapp & Michaels -- (MOVED FROM 3/22) ICE (on New Historicism; groups)
Tue 3/29	SPRING BREAK
Thur 3/31	SPRING BREAK
Tue 4/5	Anglo-American Feminism	TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (219-34 & 250-51) HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-161) NTC: Bordo, "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" (2240-54) Handouts OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism Extra Online: Gubar, "Feminism Inside Out" (PMLA 121.5)	Matthew Paz, Bordo
Thur 4/7	Anglo-American Feminism	NTC: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (1926-38) NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2084-95)	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Alix Smith, Gilbert/Gubar Pam Haney, Mulvey
Tue 4/12	Gender Theory	NTC: Butler, from Gender Trouble (2540-53) HOD: Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (169-184) Discussion Online: "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women"	Lisa Alway, Butler
Thur 4/14	Gender Theory	Video: "Paris is Burning" (watch in-class) Online: "Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article Online: hooks, "Is Paris Burning?" (warning: graphic!)	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Justine Fajardo, hooks "Is Paris Burning"
Tue 4/19	Queer Theory	NTC: Sedgwick excerpts Between Men (2464-70) & Epistomology of the Closet (2470-77) (moved to 4/21) NTC: Halberstam "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (2638-53) Handouts Definition of Queer Theory (various sources "Forum: Conference Debates" (PMLA 121.5)	Jonathan Barreto, Halberstam
Thur 4/21	Cultural Criticism	NTC: Sedgwick excerpts Between Men (2464-70) & Epistomology of the Closet (2470-77) HOD: "What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1763-78) TC: Cultural Studies (144-47 & 179-89) (moved to 4/26)	possible ICE Jolie Weislak, Between Men, Sedgwick ~~Mary Kate Ryser-Oatman, Ohmann~~
Tue 4/26	Postcolonial Criticism	HOD: "What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1763-78) TC: Cultural Studies (144-47 & 179-89) NTC: Fanon from The Wretched of the Earth (1440-46) NTC: Bhaba "The Commitment to Theory" (2353-72) (moved to 4/28) TC: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies (155-57 &179-89)	Mary Kate Ryser-Oatman, Ohmann Angelique Mabanglo, Fanon ~~Ana Acosta, Bhaba~~
Thur 4/28	Race & Ethnicity Studies	NTC: Bhaba "The Commitment to Theory" (2353-72) NTC: Anzald�a "Borderlands" (2098-2109) NTC: Hughes "Negro Artist" (1192-96) Handouts "Harlem," Langston Hughes	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Ana Acosta, Bhaba Kathleen Schulte, Hughes
Tue 5/3	Race & Ethnicity Studies	HOD: Brantlinger article (277-298) NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94) TC: Writing Help (179-89)	Dayna Armstrong, Achebe
Thur 5/5		Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Due by 12pm in Dropbox
Tue 5/10	Postmodernism	NTC: Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (1846-60) NTC: Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" (2190-2220) TC: an attempt at "hypertext" (70)	Stephanie Sfarzo, Stefani Elizabeth Brown, Haraway
Thur 5/12	Digital Bodies, Digital Literature	NTC: Hayles from How We Became Posthuman (2165-87) NTC: Moretti from Graphs, Maps, Trees Discussion Google Books N-Gram Viewer Searching for the Victorians (Cohen)	OCE due Monday by 5pm Meggyn Watkins, Hayles Kuulei Naipo, Moretti
Tue 5/17	Looking beyond the Print Tex	TC: Appendix 2 "A Note on How Theories Relate" (256-59) redux Online: Reimagining the Book: iPad & Alice Online: Dreaming Methods, Andy Campbell Online: Is Print Dead? (image, in-class) Online: Agrippa, William Gibson Online: Dimension is night (Nelson) Online: Did You Know 2.0 (video) Online: You Know You've Done too Much Theory When (Cartoon) Online: "Think You Know How to Read, Do You?" Discussion "No Round Trip: Two New Primary Sources for Agrippa," Matthew Kirschenbaum, Doug Reside & Alan Liu Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Video) "The Man Behind Spore..."	Discuss Final Exam Essay (only handed out in class)
Final Exam Meeting Essay Due & In-Class Writing Monday, May 23, 2011, 9:45AM-12PM Readings None of Us Will Return (Delbo) Electronic Literature Collection, Volume II
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