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 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
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| 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 |