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ENGL 300 – COURSE CALENDAR - TENTATIVE
Spring 2012 |
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*All dates and
assignments are subject to change |
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** Readings are to
be prepared for date assigned |
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Week 1 |
January 9 |
Course Introduction |
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January 11
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Major Movements in
Critical Approaches
Discuss/Assign Annotated Bibliography |
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January 13 |
TEXT SELECTION DUE BY 5:OO PM VIA EMAIL Last day to
add/drop a course via Wingspan |
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Week 2 |
January 16 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING HOLIDAY – NO CLASS |
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January 18 |
MEET IN DACUS LIBRARY CLASSROOM Bressler,
“Modernity/Postmodernism/Structuralism,” 85-105 |
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Week 3 |
January 23 |
Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner,” 25-75
Fry, “Introduction: Biographical &
Historical Contexts,” 3-24
Discuss/Assign Critical Articles Packets/Casebook Chapter Proposals |
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January 24 |
Last day to elect
or change S/U option with no effect on maximum of 4 allowed |
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January 25 |
Bressler, “Russian
Formalism and New Criticism,” 48-64 Fry, “A Critical
History of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 79-96
“The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner,” continued |
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Week 4 |
January 30 |
Bressler, “Reader
Oriented Criticism,” 65-84 “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner,” cont. |
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February 1 |
Murfin, “Reader-Response Criticism and
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 97-109
CASEBOOK CHAPTER 1 PROPOSAL DUE |
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Week 5 |
February 6 |
Ferguson, “Coleridge and the Deluded
Reader: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 113-130 |
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February 8 |
Bressler,
“Psychoanalytic Criticism,”123 -142
ESSAY #1 DUE |
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Week 6 |
February 13 |
Bressler, continued
Discuss/Assign Essay #2 – Marx |
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February 15 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
Murfin, “Psychoanalytic Criticism and
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 220-238
Discuss/Assign Review of Literature |
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Week 7 |
February 20 |
Williams, “An I for an Eye: ‘Spectral
Persecution’ in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 238-260 |
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February 22 |
Bressler,
“Marxism,” 165-180
ESSAY #2 DUE
Discuss/Assign Critical Essay |
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Week 8 |
February 27 |
Murfin, “Marxist
Criticism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 131-147 |
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February 29 |
Simpson, “How
Marxism Reads ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’”148-167 |
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Week 9 |
March 5 |
Bressler, “Cultural
Poetics or New Historicism,” 181-196 |
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March 7 |
Murfin, “New
Historicism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 168-186
REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE |
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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 |
March 12 |
SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS |
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March 14 |
SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS |
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Week 11 |
March 19 |
Modiano, “Sameness or Difference?
Historical Readings of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 187-219 |
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March 21 |
Murfin, “Feminist
and Gender Criticism and ‘The Secret Sharer,’” PDF |
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Fall 2012 Advising
begins |
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Week 12 |
March 26 |
Bressler,
“Feminism,” 143-164; “Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism,” 220-229
CHAPTERS 2 AND 3 DUE |
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March 28 |
Bressler,
“”Modernity/Postmodernism; Structuralism/Poststructuralism:
Deconstruction,” 85-122 |
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Week 13 |
April 2 |
Murfin,
“Deconstructive Criticism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’”
261-282
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April 4 |
Eilenberry, “Voice and Ventriloquism in
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 282-314 |
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Week 14 |
April 9 |
Bressler,
“African-American Criticism,” 210-219; “Postcolonialism,” 197-209; “Ecocriticism,”
230-238 |
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Fall 2011
Registration begins |
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April 11 |
Assign Abstract
Discuss Final |
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Week 15 |
April 18 |
No Class –
Conferences in 241 Bancroft |
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April 20 |
No Class –
Conferences in 241 Bancroft |
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Week 16 |
April 23 |
CRITICAL ESSAY AND ABSTRACT DUE Review for Final |
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April 24 |
Study Day |
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Final Exam |
Friday April 27 |
3-5:30 PM Kinard 316 |