English 300: Approaches to Literature, Fall 2011, Sections  001 & 002
Dr. Leslie Bickford
Bancroft 275
Office Phone: 323-4564
E-mail:
bickfordl@winthrop.edu
Web:
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/bickfordl
Office Hours: MW 11-12, TR 12:30-1:30 & by appointment
 

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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 DUEReview 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