English 300: Approaches to Literature

Spring 2016, section 001, 3 hours credit

Dr. Leslie Bickford                                                                       

Bancroft 234

Office Phone: 323-4564 

E-mail: bickfordl@winthrop.edu

Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/bickfordl

Office Hours: Th 1:00-3:00 (Bancroft)

ONCA Office Hours: M, T, W 1:00-3:00, Th 9:00-11:00, F 9:00-12:00 (Dinkins 222) & by appointment

 Please have reading done by the date indicated.

M

Jan 11

Class Intro, Requirements, Expectations

W

Jan 13

The Turn of the Screw 3-20; Bressler, Chapter 1 “Defining Criticism”

M

Jan 18

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday: no class

W

Jan 20

TEXT SELECTION DUE; TTOTS through 72

M

Jan 25

Bressler, Chapter 2 “A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism”

Scenic island tour of theory?

Finish TTOTS

Annotated Bibliography Assigned

W

Jan 27

“Critical History of TTOTS” 235-261

Look through Cultural Documents and Illustrations 157-216

M

Feb 1

Bressler, Chapter 3 “Russian Formalism and New Criticism”  & Cleanth Brooks, “The Formalist Critics” 250-256

W

Feb 3

Bressler, Chapter 4 “Reader-oriented Criticism”  ESSAY # 1 ASSIGNED

(evaluation of Booth’s essay as an example of RR criticism)

M

Feb 8

Meet in Library Classroom

W

Feb 10

TTOTS “Reader-Response Criticism and TTOTS” & Booth’s essay, “He began to read…”  (271-301)

M

Feb 15

ESSAY # 1 DUE, Finish Reader Response

Annotated Bibliography clinic: bring at least one entry for your annotated bib

W

Feb 17

Chapter 5 “Modernity/Postmodernism:  Structuralism/Postructuralism: Deconstruction” 85-105

M

Feb 22

Bressler, Continue Chapter 5  105-122 & Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” 256-271

W

Feb 24

 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUEReview of Literature assigned

M

Feb 29

Bressler, Chapter 6 “Psychoanalytic Criticism”

W

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

Optional revision of Booth paper due through email to me by 11:00,

M

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”   

W

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

M

Mar 14

Spring Break

 

W

Mar 16

Spring Break

 

M

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)

W

Mar 23

Bressler Chapter 8 “Marxism” 165-180

F Mar 25 by 5 PM on turnitin.com REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE 

M

Mar 28

TTOTS Marxist Criticism and Robbins’ essay “They Don’t Count Much, Do They?” 360-389

W

Mar 30

ESSAY # 2 DUE; Finish Marxism

Bressler, Chapter 9 “Cultural Poetics or New Historicism” 181-196

M

Apr 4

Bressler, Chapter 11 “African-American Criticism” 210-219 & DuBoise, “Criteria of Negro Art” 276-284

W

Apr 6

Bressler, Chapter 10 “Postcolonialism” 197-209 & Larson’s “Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature”

Casebook Chapters 2 & 3 due

M

Apr 11

Bressler, Chapter 13 “Ecocriticism” 230-238

W

Apr 13

Correct Use of Borrowed Information

Complete DRAFT of Research Paper due by midnight through turnitin

M

Apr 18

No class: Begin Conferences

W

Apr 20

No Class: Continue Conferences

Robbins revision due through email to me

 

M

Apr 25

Last Class. Review for Final Exam. Review of Lit revision Due!

T

Apr 26

Study Day; Final Paper Due through turnitin.com by 5 PM

 T

May 3 8:00 AM

Final Exam