ENGL 300 – COURSE CALENDAR - TENTATIVE
Dr. Siobhan Craft Brownson

 Spring 2012

 

 

*All dates and assignments are subject to change

 

 

** Readings are to be prepared for date assigned

Week 1

January 9

Course Introduction

 

January 11

 

Major Movements in Critical Approaches
Bressler, “Defining Criticism” and “A Critical Survey,” 1-47

Discuss/Assign Annotated Bibliography

 

January 13

TEXT SELECTION DUE BY 5:OO PM VIA EMAIL

Last day to add/drop a course via Wingspan

Week 2

January 16

MARTIN LUTHER KING HOLIDAY – NO CLASS

 

January 18

MEET IN DACUS LIBRARY CLASSROOM

Bressler, “Modernity/Postmodernism/Structuralism,” 85-105

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
Discuss/Assign Essay #1 – New Criticism & “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”

 

January 24

Last day to elect or change S/U option with no effect on maximum of 4 allowed

 

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

Week 4

January 30

Bressler, “Reader Oriented Criticism,” 65-84

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” cont.

 

February 1

Murfin, “Reader-Response Criticism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 97-109           

CASEBOOK CHAPTER 1 PROPOSAL DUE

Week 5

February 6

Ferguson, “Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 113-130

 

February 8

Bressler, “Psychoanalytic Criticism,”123 -142

ESSAY #1 DUE

Week 6

February 13

Bressler, continued

Discuss/Assign Essay #2 – Marx

 

February 15

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

Murfin, “Psychoanalytic Criticism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 220-238

Discuss/Assign Review of Literature

Week 7

February 20

Williams, “An I for an Eye: ‘Spectral Persecution’ in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 238-260

 

February 22

Bressler, “Marxism,” 165-180

ESSAY #2 DUE

Discuss/Assign Critical Essay

Week 8

February 27

Murfin, “Marxist Criticism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 131-147

 

February 29

Simpson, “How Marxism Reads ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’”148-167

Week 9

March 5

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

 

March 7

Murfin, “New Historicism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 168-186

REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE

 

 

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.

Week 10

March 12

SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS

 

March 14

SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS

Week 11

March 19

Modiano, “Sameness or Difference? Historical Readings of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 187-219

 

March 21

Murfin, “Feminist and Gender Criticism and ‘The Secret Sharer,’” PDF

 

 

Fall 2012 Advising begins

Week 12

March 26

Bressler, “Feminism,” 143-164; “Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism,” 220-229

CHAPTERS 2 AND 3 DUE

 

March 28

Bressler, “”Modernity/Postmodernism; Structuralism/Poststructuralism: Deconstruction,” 85-122

Week 13

April 2

Murfin, “Deconstructive Criticism and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 261-282                   

 

April 4

Eilenberry, “Voice and Ventriloquism in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’” 282-314

Week 14

April 9

Bressler, “African-American Criticism,” 210-219; “Postcolonialism,” 197-209; “Ecocriticism,” 230-238

 

 

Fall 2011 Registration begins

 

April 11

Assign Abstract

Discuss Final
ROUGH DRAFT OF CRITICAL ESSAY DUE

Week 15

April 18

No Class – Conferences in 241 Bancroft

 

April 20

No Class – Conferences in 241 Bancroft

Week 16

April 23

CRITICAL ESSAY AND ABSTRACT DUE

Review for Final

 

April 24

Study Day

Final

Exam

Friday

April 27

3-5:30 PM

Kinard 316