| ENGL 300 – COURSE SYLLABUS Dr. Siobhan Craft Brownson Fall 2009 |
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| *All dates and assignments are subject to change | ||
| Week 1 | August 26 | Course Introduction |
| August 28 | Last day to add/drop a course via Wingspan | |
| Week 2 | August 31 | Major Movements in Critical
Approaches Bressler, "Defining Criticism" and "A Critical Survey," 1-49 Discuss/Assign Annotated Bibliography |
| September 2 | Conrad, "The Secret Sharer," 24-60
Schwarz, "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts," 3-23 |
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| Week 3 | September 7 | MEET IN DACUS LIBRARY CLASSROOM |
| September 8 | Last day to elect or change S/U option with no effect on maximum of 4 allowed | |
| September 9 | Bressler, "Russian Formalism and
New Criticism," 50-71 Schwarz, "Critical History of ‘Secret Sharer,’"
63-78 Discuss/Assign Critical Articles Packet |
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| Week 4 | September 14 | Bressler, "Reader Oriented
Criticism," 72-95 "The Secret Sharer," cont. |
| September 16 | Murfin, "Reader Response Criticism and ‘The
Secret Sharer,’" 112-128 2 CRIT. ARTICLES W/PARAGRAPHS DUE |
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| Week 5 | September 21 | Phelan, "Reading Secrets," 128-144 ESSAY #1 DUE Discuss/Assign Critical Casebook |
| September 23 | Bressler, "Psychoanalytic Criticism," 142-166 | |
| Week 6 | September 28 | Bressler, continued Discuss/Assign Essay #2 – Marx |
| September 30 | ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE Murfin, "Psychoanalytic Criticism and ‘The Secret Sharer,’" 79-94 Discuss/Assign Review of Literature |
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| Week 7 | October 5 | Schwarz, "‘The Secret Sharer’ as an Act of Memory," 95-111 |
| October 7 | Bressler, "Marxism," 191-211 ESSAY #2 DUE Discuss/Assign Critical Essay |
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| Week 8 | October 12 | Bressler, "Cultural Poetics or New Historicism," 212-232 |
| October 14 | Murfin, "New Historicism and ‘The Secret
Sharer,’" 175-196 REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE |
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| Week 9 | October 19 | FALL BREAK – NO CLASS |
| October 21 | Levenson, "Secret History in ‘The Secret
Sharer,’" 163-174 (Spring 2010 Advising begins) |
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| October 23 | LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM A COURSE WITH AN
AUTOMATIC "N."
LAST DAY TO RESCIND S/U OPTION. WILL COUNT TOWARD MAXIMUM OF 4 ALLOWED. |
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| Week 10 | October 26 | Bressler, "Feminism," 167-190; "Queer Theory," 252-260, 263 |
| October 28 | Murfin, "Feminist and Gender Criticism and ‘The Secret Sharer,’" 175-196 | |
| Week 11 | November 2 | Scott, "Intimacies Engendered in Conrad’s ‘The
Secret Sharer,’" 197-21 CRITICAL CASEBOOK DUE Assign Essay #3 - Derrida |
| November 4 | Bressler, "Modernism and Postmodernism:
Structuralism and Deconstruction," 96-141 (Spring 2010 Registration begins) |
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| Week 12 | November 9 | Murfin, "Deconstruction and ‘The Secret Sharer," 211-231 |
| November 11 | Miller, "Sharing Secrets," 232-252 ESSAY #3 DUE |
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| Week 13 | November 16 | Bressler, "Cultural Studies," 233-252, 261-262, 265-269 |
| November 18 | "Cultural Studies," cont. Assign Abstract ROUGH DRAFT OF CRITICAL ESSAY DUE |
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| Week 14 | November 23 | No Class – Conferences in 241 Bancroft |
| November 25 | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY – NO CLASS | |
| Week 15 | November 30 | No Class – Conferences in 241 Bancroft |
| December 2 | No Class – Conferences in 241 Bancroft | |
| Week 16 | December 7 | CRITICAL ESSAY AND ABSTRACT DUE
Review for Final |
| December 8 | Study Day | |
| Final
Exam |
Tuesday December 15 |
8-10:30 AM Kinard 215 |