T

Aug 21

Class Intro, Requirements, Expectations

R

Aug 23

The Turn of the Screw 3-20; Bressler, Chapter 1 “Defining Criticism”

T

Aug 28

 TEXT SELECTION DUE; TTOTS through 72

R

Aug 30

Finish TTOTS; Annotated Bibliography Assigned

T

Sept 4

Bressler, Chapter 2 “A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism”

 TTOTS

Last day for undergraduate students to select the S/U (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) option for a course. Students may also change a course from S/U to a letter grade and still keep their total number of S/U's.

R

Sept 6

“Critical History of TTOTS” 189-214

Look through Cultural Documents 121-186

T

Sept 11

Meet in Library Classroom

R

Sept 13

Bressler, Chapter 3 “New Criticism”  student essay 67-71 plus Keats “On First Looking into…” p. 270

T

Sept 18

Bressler, Chapter 4 “Reader Response”  ESSAY # 1 ASSIGNED

(evaluation of Booth’s essay as an example of RR criticism)

R

Sept 20

TTOTS “Reader Response Criticism and TTOTS Booth’s essay, “He began to read…”  223 and forward

T

Sept 25

 ESSAY # 1 DUE, Finish Reader Response

R

Sept 27

Chapter 5 “Modernity and Postmodernism:  Structuralism and Deconstruction” 96-116; student essay 136 – 139

T

Oct 2

Bressler, Continue Chapter 5  116-135

R

Oct 4

Bressler, student essay 139-141 and further discussion of deconstruction; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE;  Review of Literature assigned

T

Oct 9

Bressler, Chapter 6, “Psychoanalytic Criticism; Essay # 2 Assigned (Evaluation of Renner’s essay as an example of psychoanalytical criticism)

R

Oct 11

TTOTS, “Psychoanalytic Criticism” and Renner’s Essay “Sexual Hysteria in TTOTS”

T

Oct 16

Fall Break

R

Oct 18

Finish Psychoanalytic; ESSAY # 2 DUE

F

Oct 19

Last day to withdraw from courses (automatic ‘N’) without documentation of extenuating circumstances. Last day to rescind elected S/U option. A rescinded S/U will still count toward the maximum of four allowed.

T

Oct 23

REVIEW OF LITERATURE DUE

Bressler, Chapter 7, “Feminism”    Essay # 3 Assigned (Evaluation of Walton’s essay as Gender Criticism)

R

Oct 25

TTOTS “Gender Criticism” and Walton’s essay “Subjectivities and TTOTS”

T

Oct 30

Finish Gender Criticism, ESSAY # 3 DUE; Essay # 4 Assigned (Evaluation of Robbins’ essay as Marxist)

R

Nov 1

Pre-registration begins

Bressler Chapter 8 “Marxism”

T

Nov 6

TTOTS Marxist Criticism and Robbins’ essay “They Don’t Count Much, Do They?”

R

Nov 8

ESSAY # 4 DUE; Finish Marxist criticism;  Begin Bressler, Chapter 9 “Cultural Poetics”

T

Nov 13

Finish Cultural Poetics

R

Nov 15

NO CLASS – WRITING DAY—CASEBOOK DUE TO ME BY 5:00 PM

T

Nov 20

TTOTS “Combining Perspectives” and Teahen’s essay “The Ghostly Effects of Reading TTOTS”

R

Nov 22

Thanksgiving Break begins. No classes.

T

Nov 27

 Complete DRAFT of Major ESSAY by 9:00 am

Bressler, Chapter 10 “Cultural Studies” ; Begin Conferences

R

Nov 29

Finish Chapter 10, Exam Review; Continue Conferences

M

Dec 3

 Last Day of Classes

T

Dec 4

Study Day – MAJOR ESSAY DUE TO ME BY 12:00 NOON

T

DEC 11

EXAM 11:30 am

Exam schedule available at http://www.winthrop.edu/recandreg/calendars/default.htm