English 300: Approaches to Literature
Fall 2013, section 001, 3 hours credit
Dr. Leslie Bickford
Bancroft 275
Office Phone: 323-4564
E-mail: bickfordl@winthrop.edu
Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/bickfordl
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00 (Bancroft)
ONCA Office Hours:M-R 1:00-3:00, F 9:00-12:00 (Dinkins 222) & by appointment
Please
have reaing done by the date indicated.
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Aug 21 |
Class Intro, Requirements, Expectations |
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Aug 26 |
The Turn of the Screw 3-20; Bressler, Chapter 1 “Defining Criticism” |
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Aug 28 |
TEXT SELECTION DUE; TTOTS through 72 |
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Sept 2 |
Bressler, Chapter 2 “A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism”
Finish TTOTS |
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Sept 4 |
“Critical History of TTOTS” 235-261
Look through Cultural Documents and Illustrations
157-216 |
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Sept 9 |
Bressler, Chapter 3 “Russian Formalism and New
Criticism” & Cleanth Brooks, “The Formalist Critics” 250-256 |
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Sept 11 |
Meet in Library Classroom |
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Sept 16 |
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 18 |
TTOTS
“Reader-Response Criticism and TTOTS”
& Booth’s essay, “He began to read…” (271-301) |
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Sept 23 |
ESSAY # 1 DUE at midnight through turnitin.com |
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Sept 25 |
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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Sept 30 |
Bressler, Continue Chapter 5 105-122 |
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Oct 2 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
at midnight through turnitin.com;
Review of Literature assigned |
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Oct 7 |
Bressler, Chapter 6, “Psychoanalytic Criticism” |
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Oct 9 |
TTOTS, “Psychoanalytic Criticism” and Zacharias’ Essay “’The extraordinary
flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me’ : Fantasy and Confession
in TTOTS” 302-332
Casebook Chapter One Due |
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Oct 14 |
Fall Break. No classes. |
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Oct 16 |
Bressler, Chapter 7, “Feminism”
Advising Begins |
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Oct 18 |
Course Withdrawal Deadline (Automatic N) |
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Oct 21 |
REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE: please bring a hardcopy to class and turn it in though turnitin.com
TTOTS “Gender Criticism” and Walton’s essay
“Subjectivities and TTOTS”
333-359 |
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Oct 23 |
Bressler Chapter 12 “Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism” 220-229
Finish Gender Criticism, Essay # 2 Assigned
(Evaluation of Robbins’ essay as Marxist) |
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Oct 28 |
Bressler Chapter 8 “Marxism” 165-180 |
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Oct 30 |
TTOTS
Marxist Criticism and Robbins’ essay “They Don’t Count Much, Do They?”
360-389
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Nov 1; noon |
Revision of Annotated Bib due through email to me |
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Nov 4 |
ESSAY # 2 DUE; Bressler, Chapter 9 “Cultural Poetics or New
Historicism” 181-196
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Nov 6 |
Finish Cultural Poetics; Bressler, Chapter 11
“African-American Criticism” 210-219 & DuBoise, “Criteria of Negro Art”
276-284 |
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Nov. 10 |
Review of Lit Revision due to me through email |
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Nov 11 |
Finish African American criticism;
Bressler, Chapter 10 “Postcolonialism” 197-209 & Larson’s “Heroic
Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature” |
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Nov 13 |
Finish Postcolonialism
Casebook Chapters 2 & 3 due |
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Nov 18 |
Draft workshop; final exam talk; attendance IS mandatory today! |
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Nov 20 |
NO CLASS: Complete DRAFT of Research Paper due to me by 9:00 AM
Begin Conferences |
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Nov 25 |
No Class: Continue Conferences |
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Nov 27 |
No class. Thanksgiving Break |
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Dec 2 |
Last Class. Review for Final Exam. |
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Dec 3 |
Final Paper due through turnitin.com |
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Dec 4th |
NCUR abstracts due! See http://www.cur.org/ncur_2014/ for more information & let me know if you want to talk about an abstract (at ANY time) |
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Dec 9 8:00 AM |
Final Exam |