ENGL 602 (section 001): Critical Theory (3 credit hours)

Spring 2012

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, T 12:30-2:30 & by appointment

Please have all reading DONE by the date indicated.

 

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Jan. 9

Classes begin.

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Jan. 11

 Introduction to the course, each other, and review of major critical trends

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Jan. 13

Last day to add/drop a class

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Jan. 16

Martin Luther King holiday. No classes.

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Jan. 18

Preface v-xv and Introduction 1-22;  Classic Texts Plato, 25-38; Aristotle, 55-81; Horace, 82-94; Longinus, 95-108

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Jan. 24

Last day to elect S/U option

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Jan. 25

De Pisan, 124-131; Sidney, 132-143 (end at “dumb speakers”), 155 (pick up at “Chaucer”)-159;  Dryden, 160-162, 167 (second column)-168 (to “But”), 183 (“But”)-188;  Behn, 189 – 197; Pope, 198 – 209

Michelle: Mary Wollstonecraft

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Feb. 1

Wordsworth, 304-318; Coleridge, 319-322, 325-329; Arnold, 412-417 (bottom of right column), 427 (column 2)-429; James, 462-475

Eric: Samuel Johnson; John: Nietzche?

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Feb. 8

Formalism, Russian Formalism, & New Criticism 749-763; T. S. Eliot, 534-541; Brooks, 797-806; Wimsatt and Beardsley, 810-818; Bakhtin, 575-595 (read last)

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Feb. 15

Reader Response Theory 962-981; Iser, 1001-1014; Holland, 1014-1022;  Fish, 1022-1030; Fetterly, 1035-1042

Dylan: Booth

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Feb. 22

Psychoanalytic Theory & Criticism 1106-1122; Freud, 497-514; Jung, 542-544, 554-564; Lacan, 1122-1138 (middle of column 1); Mulvey, 1172-1180; Žižek, 1180-1197 (Write your response paper only to Lacan for today)

Short Paper Due

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Feb. 27

Midterm grades due this week

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Feb. 29

Kristy: Freud's "Creative Writers and Daydreaming"

Feminist Criticism 1502-1519; Joan: Woolf, 596-607; de Beauvoir, 673-678; Kolodny, 1550-1562; Kristeva, 1563-1578; Showalter, 1591-1599

Crystal: Gilbert and Gubar

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March 7

Gender Studies and Queer Theory 1611-1627; Foucault, 1627-1636; Wittig, 1637-1642; Cixous, 1643-1655; Sedgwick, 1683-1691; Butler, 1707-1718; Halberstam, 1734-1752

Last day to withdraw or rescind S/U option. 

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March 14

Spring Break

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March 21

Structuralism & Deconstruction 819-841; Saussure, 841-847 (top of column 1); Lévi-Strauss, 859-868; Barthes, 868-877; Foucault, 904-914; Derrida, 914-926

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March 28

I am at a conference this week

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April 4

Marxist Theory and Criticism 1198-1217; Minette: Marx, 397-400, 406-409; Benjamin, 1232-1249; Althusser, 1263-1272; Jameson, 1290-1306

Advising begins

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April 11

New Historicism and Cultural Studies 1320-1341; Foucault, 1357-1366; Geertz, 1366-1383; Greenblatt, 1442-1447; Kipnis, 1484-1501
Merritt: Hayden White

Registration begins

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April 18

Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies 1753-1776; Pamel:a DuBois, 565-568; Bobbi: Morrison, 1791-1801; Patrice, Gates, 1890-1902; Said, 1801-1814

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April 23

Last day of classes

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April 24

Study day

 

S April 28 Final Exam Due to turnitin.com by midnight

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April 30

6:30 PM

Final Paper Due to turnitin.com