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Aug 24 |
Class Intro, Requirements, Expectations |
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Aug 26 |
Last day to add/drop courses without Dean’s permission |
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Aug 29 |
The Turn of the Screw 3-20; Bressler, Chapter 1 “Defining Criticism” |
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Aug 31 |
TEXT SELECTION DUE; TTOTS through 72 |
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Sept 5 |
Bressler, Chapter 2 “A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism”; Finish
TTOTS Winthrop is open on Labor Day |
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Sept 6 |
Last day to select or change S/U option |
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Sept 7 |
“Critical History of TTOTS” 235-261 Look through Cultural Documents and Illustrations 157-216 |
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Sept 12 |
Meet in Library Classroom |
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Sept 14 |
Bressler, Chapter 3 “Russian Formalism and New Criticism” & Cleanth Brooks, “The Formalist Critics” 250-256 |
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Sept 19 |
Bressler, Chapter 4 “Reader-oriented Critism” ESSAY # 1 ASSIGNED (evaluation of Booth’s essay as an example of RR criticism) |
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Sept 21 |
TTOTS “Reader-Response Criticism and TTOTS” & Booth’s essay, “He began to read…” (271-301) |
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Sept 26 |
ESSAY # 1 DUE, Finish Reader Response |
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Sept 28 |
Chapter 5 “Modernity/Postmodernism: Structuralism/Postructuralism: Deconstruction” 85-105 & Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” 256-271 |
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Oct 3 |
Bressler, Continue Chapter 5 105-122 |
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Oct 5 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE; Review of Literature assigned |
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Oct 10 |
Bressler, Chapter 6, “Psychoanalytic Criticism”; Essay #2 Assigned (Evaluation of Zacharias’ essay as an example of psychoanalytic criticism) |
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Oct 12 |
TTOTS, “Psychoanalytic Criticism” and Zacharias’ Essay “’The extraordinary flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me’ : Fantasy and Confession in TTOTS” 302-332 |
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Oct 17 |
Fall Break |
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Oct 18 |
Fall Break |
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Oct 19 |
Advising Begins Finish Psychoanalytic; ESSAY # 2 DUE |
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Oct 21 |
Last day to rescind elected S/U option. |
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Oct 24 |
REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE Bressler, Chapter 7, “Feminism” Essay # 3 Assigned (Evaluation of Walton’s essay as Gender Criticism) |
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Oct 26 |
TTOTS “Gender Criticism” and Walton’s essay “Subjectivities and TTOTS” 333-359 Revision of Annotated Bib due to me through email or in hardcopy |
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Oct 31 |
Pre-registration begins Finish Gender Criticism, ESSAY # 3 DUE; Essay # 4 Assigned (Evaluation of Robbins’ essay as Marxist) |
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Nov 2 |
Pre-registration begins Revision of Zacharias essay due Bressler Chapter 8 “Marxism” 165-180 |
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Nov 7 |
TTOTS Marxist Criticism and Robbins’ essay “They Don’t Count Much, Do They?” 360-389 |
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Nov 9 |
Finish Marxist criticism; Begin Bressler, Chapter 9 “Cultural Poetics or New Historicism” 181-196 Review Of Lit. Revision Due |
| F | Nov 11 | ESSAY # 4 DUE;(optional) |
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Nov 14 |
Finish Cultural Poetics Revision of Short Paper 3 due |
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Nov 16 |
Bressler, Chapter 11 “African-American Criticism” 210-219
DuBoise, “Criteria of Negro Art” 276-284 CASEBOOK DUE TO ME BY 5:00 PM |
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Nov 21 |
Bressler, Chapter 10 “Postcolonialism” 197-209 & Larson’s “Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature” |
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Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving Break begins. No classes. |
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Nov 28 |
NO CLASS: Complete DRAFT of Final Paper due to me by 9:00 AM through turnitin.com Begin Conferences |
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Nov 30 |
No Class: Continue Conferences |
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Dec 5 |
Exam Review Last Day of Classes |
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Dec 6 |
Study Day Final Paper due through turnitin.com by 12 NOON |
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Dec. 13 |
2:00 Class: 11:30 Exam
9:30 Class: 3:00 Exam
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