Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

• 01/22/09
  
  • Topic: Course Overview
    
  • Text: Keats, ''Ode on a Grecian Urn''
    
• 01/26/09
  
  • Due: First Agenda Item Set
    
• 01/28/09
  
  • Due: Ex 1: Taste and Canon
    
• 01/29/09
  
  • Topic: Aesthetics and Canonicity
    
  • Text: Eagleton, ''Introduction: What is Literature?''
    
  • Text: Elliot, ''Tradition and the Individual Talent''
    
  • Text: Austin, ''Toward Resolving Keats's Grecian Urn Ode
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 02/04/09
  
  • Due: Ex 2: Author Intent 1
    
• 02/05/09
  
  • Topic: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Author
    
  • Text: Eagleton, "The Rise of English" and "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"
    
  • Text: Gilman, ''The Yellow Wallpaper''
    
  • Text: Hirsch, ''Objective Interpretation''
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 02/11/09
  
  • Due: Ex 3: Author Intent 2
    
• 02/12/09
  
  • Topic: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Author 2
    
  • Text: Keesey, Introduction and Ch 1 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Shakespeare, The Tempest
    
  • Text: McDonald, ''Reading The Tempest''
    
  • Text: Watson, ''Are Poems Historical Acts?''
    
  • Text: Yachnin, ''Shakespare and the Idea of Obedience: Gonzalo in The Tempest
    
• 02/19/09
  
  • Topic: Formalism
    
  • Text: Eagleton, ''Structuralism and Semiotics''
    
  • Topic: Oral Presentation Assigment
    
  • Text: Keesey, Ch 2 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Kent, ''On the Third Stanza of Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'''
    
  • Text: Brooks, ''Irony as a Principle of Structure''
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 02/25/09
  
  • Due: Ex 4: The Work and the Reader
    
• 02/26/09
  
  • Topic: The Work and the Reader
    
  • Due: Portfolio I
    
  • Text: Keesey, Ch 3 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Iser, ''Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader''
    
  • Text: Melville, ''Benito Cereno''
    
  • Text: O'Connell, ''Narrative Collusion and Occlusion in Melville's 'Benito Cereno'''
    
  • Text: Kolodny, '"A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts''
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 03/04/09
  
  • Due: Ex 5: Psychological Criticism
    
• 03/05/09
  
  • Topic: Psychological Determinism
    
  • Text: Life is a Dream
    
  • Text: Azar Nafisi Lecture
    
  • Due: Project Proposal
    
  • Text: Keesey, Ch 4 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Brann OR Gilbert & Gubar
    
  • Sears, "Freedom Isn't Free: Free Will in La vida es sueño Revisited"
    
  • Text: Rupp, "Reason of State and Repetition in The Tempest and La vida es sueño"
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 03/18/09
  
  • Due: Ex 6: Genre, Influence, Convention
    
• 03/19/09
  
  • Text: Paris, ''The Uses of Psychology''
    
  • Text: Donovan, ''Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as a Moral Criticism''
    
  • Topic: Intertextuality: Arnzen vs. William Carlos Williams
    
  • Text: Keesey, Ch 5 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Frye, ''The Critical Path''
    
  • Text: Frye, ''Shakespeare's The Tempest''
    
  • Text: Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure''
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 03/25/09
  
  • Due: Ex 7: Critical Analysis of SHU's ''Life Is a Dream''
    
• 03/26/09
  
  • Topic: College English Association
    
  • Text: Eagleton, "Post-Structuralism"
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 04/01/09
  
  • Due: Ex 8: CEA Report
    
  • Due: Term Project Progress Report
    
• 04/02/09
  
  • Topic: Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism
    
  • Text: Keesey, Ch 6 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Derrida, ''Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences''
    
  • Text: Wright, ''The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism''
    
  • Text: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms
    
• 04/06/09
  
  • Due: Portfolio II
    
• 04/15/09
  
  • Due: Ex 9: Semiotics and Deconstructionist Rhetoric
    
  • Due: Term Paper Presubmission Report
    
• 04/16/09
  
  • Topic: Words, Words Words
    
  • Text: de Man, ''Semilogy and Rhetoric''
    
  • Text: Miko, ''Tempest''
    
  • Text: Guetti, ''Resisting the Aesthetic''
    
  • Text: Feldstein, ''Reader, Text, and Ambiguous Referentiality in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'''
    
  • Text: Keesey, Ch 7 (Introduction)
    
  • Text: Eagleton, ''Conclusion: Political Criticism''
    
• 04/20/09
  
  • Due: Term Project Progress Report
    
• 04/22/09
  
  • Due: Ex 10: Culture as Context
    
• 04/23/09
  
  • Topic: Cultural Criticism
    
  • Text: Greenblatt, ''Culture''
    
  • Text: Garson, 'Bodily Harm" Keats's Figures in the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'''
    
  • Text: Belsey, ''Literature, History, Politics''
    
  • Text: Barker and Hulme, ''Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish''
    
  • Text: Dock, '''But One Expects That': Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and the Shifting Light of Scholarship''
    
• 04/30/09
  
  • Topic: Term Paper Peer Review
    
  • Due: Term Paper First Draft
    
• 05/01/09
  
  • Due: Graduating Seniors
    
• 05/07/09
  
  • Topic: Final Exam Slot
    
  • Due: Term Paper Portfolio
    
  • Due: Portfolio III
    
  • Due: Term Project
    
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