Please
have reading done by the date indicated.
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Jan 11 |
Class Intro, Requirements, Expectations |
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Jan 13 |
The Turn of the Screw
3-20; Bressler, Chapter 1 “Defining Criticism” |
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Jan 18 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday: no class |
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Jan 20 |
TEXT SELECTION DUE;
TTOTS through 72 |
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Jan 25 |
Bressler, Chapter 2 “A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism”
Finish TTOTS
Annotated Bibliography Assigned |
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Jan 27 |
“Critical History of TTOTS” 235-261
Look through Cultural Documents and Illustrations 157-216 |
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Feb 1 |
Bressler, Chapter 3 “Russian Formalism and New Criticism” &
Cleanth Brooks, “The Formalist Critics” 250-256 |
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Feb 3 |
Bressler, Chapter 4 “Reader-oriented Criticism” ESSAY # 1
ASSIGNED
(evaluation of Booth’s essay as an example of RR criticism) |
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Feb 8 |
Meet in Library Classroom |
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Feb 10 |
TTOTS
“Reader-Response Criticism and TTOTS”
& Booth’s essay, “He began to read…” (271-301) |
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Feb 15 |
ESSAY # 1 DUE,
Finish Reader Response
Annotated Bibliography clinic: bring at least one entry for your
annotated bib |
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Feb 17 |
Chapter 5 “Modernity/Postmodernism: Structuralism/Postructuralism:
Deconstruction” 85-105 |
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Feb 22 |
Bressler, Continue Chapter 5 105-122 & Derrida’s “Structure, Sign
and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” 256-271 |
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Feb 24 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE;
Review of Literature assigned |
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Feb 29 |
Bressler, Chapter 6 “Psychoanalytic Criticism” |
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Mar 2 |
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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Mar 7 |
Casebook Chapter One Due (through turnitin, only hardcopy if you'd
rather I grade a hardcopy): Please remember to bring your article to
hand in too!
Bressler, Chapter 7 “Feminism” |
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Mar 9 |
TTOTS
“Gender Criticism” and Walton’s essay “Subjectivities and TTOTS”
333-359 |
| F | Mar 11, 5 PM | Optional Annotated Bib revision due through email to me |
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Mar 14 |
Spring Break
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Mar 16 |
Spring Break
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Mar 21 |
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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Mar 23 |
Bressler Chapter 8 “Marxism” 165-180 |
| F | Mar 25 by 5 PM on turnitin.com | REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE |
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Mar 28 |
TTOTS
Marxist Criticism and Robbins’ essay “They Don’t Count Much, Do They?”
360-389 |
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Mar 30 |
ESSAY # 2 DUE;
Finish Marxism
Bressler, Chapter 9 “Cultural Poetics or New Historicism” 181-196 |
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Apr 4 |
Bressler, Chapter 11 “African-American Criticism” 210-219 & DuBoise,
“Criteria of Negro Art” 276-284 |
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Apr 6 |
Bressler, Chapter 10 “Postcolonialism” 197-209 & Larson’s “Heroic
Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature”
Casebook Chapters 2 & 3 due |
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Apr 11 |
Bressler, Chapter 13 “Ecocriticism” 230-238 |
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Apr 13 |
Correct Use of Borrowed Information
Complete DRAFT of Research Paper due
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Apr 18 |
No class:
Begin Conferences |
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Apr 20 |
No Class: Continue Conferences
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Apr 25 |
Last Class. Review for Final Exam. |
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Apr 26 |
Study Day; Final Paper Due through turnitin.com by 5 PM |
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May 3 8:00 AM |
Final Exam |