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ENGL 618: Seminar in the Romance Spring 2008 Course Calendar Course Home Page Syllabus RESOURCES Assignments Reserve LIST Bibliographies return to Dr. K's home page |
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Discussion Focus &
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Starting Points |
Other Readings and Directions | |
W Jan 16 |
Introductions, books, theory, etc.
Ovid, Metamorphoses: The Tale of Ceyx and Alcyone.
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe. Determine discussion leader pairings. |
Corinne Saunders, "Introduction," A Companion to Romance (2004; Eric Murphy Selinger, "Rereading the Romance," Contemporary Literature 48.2 (2007): 307-24. | Dr. K | |
M Jan 21 | Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Offices closed; no classes. | |||
W Jan 23![]() |
The Romance begins: Heliodorus, An Ethiopian Romance. Starting Point Paper 1 is due. |
Marla Harris, "Not
Black and/or White: Reading Racial Difference in Heliodorus's
Ethiopica and Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood," African American Review
35.3 (Sept. 2001): 375-390. Northrup Frye, from The Secular Scripture (end of ch. 1 and ch. 2, "The Context of Romance") |
Dr. K | |
W Jan 30 ![]() |
The Romance goes East (and feminizes): Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (Here's a genealogical chart if it helps...). |
Bettina L. Knapp, "Lady Muraski Shikubu's The Tale of Genji: Search for the Mother,"
Symposium 46.1 (Spring 1992): 34-48. Royal Tyler, "Marriage, Rank and Rape in The Tale of Genji," Intersections 7 (March 2002). |
Kathryn and Kim | Let me recommend the "Tale of Genji" website, which has a lot of pictures and useful information, and a list of the characters. Genji is one of the most beautifully-illustrated works of Japanese literature; the Art Library has a great videotape that shows many of them if you become interested in the relationship of reader, image, and text. Also, this archived web page has a summary of all 54 chapters. |
W Feb 6 | The Romance meets Chivalry: Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain and Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart. Starting Point Paper 2 is due. |
Eric Auerbach, from
Mimesis: "The Knight Sets Forth" Northrup Frye, "The Myth of Summer: Romance," from The Anatomy of Criticism |
Stephanie and Robin | If you need some background on amor courtois, sometimes called courtly love, click here. |
W Feb 13 | The Romance meets Allegory: Guillaume Loris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose. Jimmy's slideshow: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2069262/Rose |
Claire Nouvet, "An
Allegorical Mirror: The Pool of Narcissus in Guillaume de Loris'
Romance of the Rose," Romanic Review 91. 4 (Nov. 2000):
353-65. Northrup Frye, "The Recovery of Myth," ch. 6 of The Secular Scripture |
Matt and Jimmy |
If you have time you
might want to dip into Deborah Madsen's Rereading Allegory: A
Narrative Approach to Genre; she has posted
chapter 1
on her website. Here's a nice, brief summary of the role of allegory in the Middle Ages. |
W Feb 20 | The Romance meets the Novel (and Parody): Cervantes, Don Quixote. Starting Point Paper 3 is due. |
Lisa Vollendorf, "Cervantes and His Women Readers."
Romance Quarterly 52.4
(Fall 2005): 312-27. Harry Veléz Quiñones, "Barefoot and Fallen: Dorotea, Athena, Cervantes, and Homer." Romance Quarterly 52.4 (Fall 2005): 281-293. |
Courtney and Kim | I recently found this article: Anthony J. Cascardi, "Genre Definition and Multiplicity in Don Quixote," Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Societyof America 6.1 (1986): 39-49. Pretty interesting. |
W Feb 27 | The Romance meets Romanticism: Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes |
Angus Nicholls, "Goethe,
Romanticism, and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition,"
Romanticism on the Net 28 (Nov. 2002): 54 para. From Daniel Couégnas, "Forms of Popular Narrative in France and England: 1700-1900," in The Novel ed. Franco Moretti (vol. 1, Princeton, 2006). |
Alison and Michael | Germanists read Goethe in a different light: see Edgar Landgraf, "Romantic Love and the Enlightenment: From Gallantry and Seduction to Authenticity and Self-Validation." German Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2004): 29-46. |
W Mar 5 | The Romance meets the Gothic: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Starting Point Paper 4 is due. |
Carla Kaplan, "Girl Talk: Jane Eyre and the Romance of
Women's Narration." Novel: A Forum on Fiction
30.1 (Fall 1996): 5-31.
Joanne Spiegel, "The Construction of Romance in Jane Eyre." Readerly/Writerly Texts 9.1 & 9.2 (Spring/Summer 2001 and Fall/Winter 2001): 133-146. |
Robin and Stephanie | |
W Mar 12 Last day to withdraw from a spring semester course. |
The Romance goes Philosophical:
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance.
Abstract for Seminar Paper is due. Please note change!!!! |
David Greven, "'In
a Pig's Eye': Masculinity, Mastery, and the Returned Gaze of Hawthorne's
The Blithedale Romance." Studies in American Fiction
34.2 (Autumn 2006): 131-159. Angela Mills, "'The Sweet Word' Sister: The Transformative Threat of Sisterhood in The Blithedale Romance." American Transcendental Quarterly [ATQ] 17.2 (June 2003): 97-121. |
Dick | |
W Mar 19 |
Spring Break.
This might be time to read the preface to The American, from which the title of the seminar is taken. Or not. |
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W Mar 26 Advising for Fall 2008 begins. |
Catch-up day.
Take time to discuss the romance novel as a subset of the romance
and some of the historical forces that have shaped it, and to contemplate the notions of genre conventions and semiotic codes.
Starting Point Paper 5 is due. Please note change!!!! |
Linda Barlow & Jayne
Ann Krentz, "Beneath
the Surface: The Hidden Codes of Romance," in Dangerous Men and
Adventurous Women ed. Jayne Ann Krentz (Philadelphia: U of
Pennsylvania P, 1992): 15-29. George Eliot, from Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (1856) Pamela Regis, A Natural History of the Romance Novel (Phila.: U of Penn P, 2003): 19-50. Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (rev. ed. 1991), ch. 1, "The Institutional Matrix" |
We
will break early, at 7:45, to allow you to attend the Alan Lightman
lecture in Johnson Theatre. If you want to see a great, farcical example of genre confusion caused by publisher interference, read Thurber's "The Macbeth Murder Mystery." It's good for a laugh. |
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W April 2 |
The
Romance meets Semiotics, Commercial Publishing and Feminism: Georgette Heyer, Sylvester or
the Wicked Uncle.
Annotated bibliography for
Seminar Paper is due.
Dr Jones' handout on
Annotated Bibliographies:
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/jonesg/ |
A. S. Byatt, "An
Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer" (1969), in her Passions of
the Mind (1996). Germaine Greer, from The Female Eunuch (1970) Marghanita Laski, "The Appeal of Georgette Heyer," The Times (London) 1 October 1970: 16; Lillian S. Robinson, "On Reading Trash," Sex, Class, and Culture (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978): 202, 207-22. Jayne Ann Krentz, "Trying to Tame the Romance: Critics and Correctness," in Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women ed. Jayne Ann Krentz (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1992): 107-114. |
Becca and Michael | Since Heyer was a very reclusive person, biography and scholarship on her is hard to come by; you may want to read A. S. Byatt's appreciation, "The Ferocious Reticence of Georgette Heyer," Sunday Times Magazine 5 October 1975: 28-38. |
W April 9 Registration for Fall 2008 begins. |
The Romance meets Post-Modernism: A. S. Byatt, Possession. Starting Point Paper 6 is due. |
Suzanne Becker,
"Postmodernism's Happy Ending: Possession!" in
Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in
Britain, ed. Beate Neumeier (Amsterday: Rodopi, 2001): 17-30. Jackie Buxton, "What's Love Got to Do With It? Postmodernism and Possession," English Studies in Canada 22.2 (June 1996): 199-219. Mark Hennelly, "'Repeating Patterns' and Textual Pleasures: Reading (in) A.S. Byatt's Possession," Contemporary Literature 44.3 (Autumn 2003): 442-71. [JSTOR] |
Alison and Becca | A nice piece on the neo-Victorian genre: Dana Shiller, "The Redemptive Past in the Neo-Victorian Novel, " Studies in the Novel 29. 4 (Winter 1997): 538-60. |
W April 16![]() |
The Romance challenges time: García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera. If I had had access to Harold Bloom's collection Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (NY: Chelsea House, 2005) before April 13, I would have probably used these selections from it instead of Columbus: Michael Bell, "Not Flaubert's Parrot: Love in the Time of Cholera" Michael Wood, "Reading Dazzle" Jimmy's PowerPoint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2556066/LOVE-IN-THE-TIME-OF-CHOLERA |
Michael Palencia-Roth, "Gabriel
García Márquez: Labyrinths of Love and History,"
World Literature Today 65.1 (December
1991): 54-58. Claudette Kemper Columbus, "Faint Echoes and Faded Reflections: Love and Justice in the Time of Cholera," Twentieth Century Literature 38.1 (Spring 1992): 89-100. David Buehrer, "A Second Chance on Earth': The Postmodern and the Post-Apocalyptic in García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,32.1 (Fall 1990): 15-26. |
Jimmy and Dick | For a brief appreciation of García Márquez, you might want to scan Algis Valiunas' "The Magic of Gabriel García Márquez," Commentary (April 2004): 51-55. |
W April 23![]() |
The Romance goes Post-Colonial: Prawer-Jhabvala,
Heat and Dust. Take-home examination given out. Starting
Point Paper 7 is due. You may be interested in reading a non-Western critic's take on Heat and Dust. I've posted part of I. H-Shihan's Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust, published in New Delhi in 2006. I'd suggest skimming it so that you get a sense of a non-Western male critic's response to the book. |
Elizabeth Abel, "(E)Merging
Identities: The Dynamics of Female Friendship in Contemporary Fiction by
Women," Signs 6.3 (Spring 1981): 413-35. D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke, "Disillusionment with More than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust," Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World. Ed. Geoffrey V. Davis et al. (NY: Rodopi; 2005): 249-57. |
Courtney and Kathryn | I'm planning Evil Ways to import an Indian dinner for us to celebrate the end of the semester. Details will follow. |
M April 28 | Last Day of Classes. In response to your pleas, mandatory conferences today and tomorrow on seminar papers. | |||
T April 29 | Study Day | |||
R May 1 | Seminar Paper due in hard copy (and in www.turnitin.com) by 5 pm. | |||
Sat May 3 | Final exam due by 3 p.m. (scheduled exam beginning). |