The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself. Please note that Tuesday classes meet in a location (Chemistry 251) that is different from that of the MWF classes.
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September 6 |
Introduction |
Part One: Approaches to Literary Criticism |
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September 7 |
Steven Lynn, Texts and Contexts, Chapters 1-2 |
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September 9 |
Lynn, Chapter 3: New Criticism |
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September 12 |
Lynn, Chapter 4: Reader Response Criticism |
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September 13 |
Workshop: Writing about Literature |
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September 14 |
Lynn, Chapter 5: Structuralism and Deconstruction |
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September 16 |
Lynn, Chapter 6: Connecting the TextHistorical Criticism |
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September 19 |
Lynn, Chapter 7: Minding the WorkPsychological Criticism |
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September 20 |
Workshop: Writing about Literature |
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September 21 |
Lynn, Chapter 8: Gendering the TextFeminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory |
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September 23 |
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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Part Two: The Scarlet Letter |
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September 26 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom-House" |
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September 27 |
Hawthorne, Letters, pp. 220-230 |
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September 28 |
Hawthorne, Chapters I-IV
PASSAGE ANALYSIS PAPER DUE IN CLASS |
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September 30 |
Hawthorne, Chapters V-VII |
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October 3 |
Reviews of The Scarlet Letter, pp. 237-273 |
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October 4 |
Hawthorne, Chapters VIII-X |
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October 5 |
Hawthorne, Chapters XI-XIV |
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October 7 |
Michael Colacurcio, "Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson," pp. 304-330 |
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October 10 |
Hawthorne, Chapters XV-XVIII |
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October 11 |
Hawthorne, Chapters XIX-XXIV |
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October 12 |
Laura Hanft Korobkin, "The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice," pp. 426-451 |
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October 14 |
Hawthorne, Chapters XX-XXI |
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October 17 |
Hawthorne, Chapters XXII-XIV |
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October 18 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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October 19 |
Charles Rykamp, "The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter," pp. 291-303 |
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October 21 |
Millicent Bell, "The Obliquity of Signs: The Scarlet Letter," pp. 451-463 |
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October 24 |
Stephen Railton, "The Address of The Scarlet Letter," pp. 481-500 |
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October 25 |
Sacvan Bercovitch, "The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter," pp. 576-597 |
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October 26 |
Nina Baym, "Revisiting Hawthorne's Feminism," pp. 541-558 |
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October 28 |
Michael T. Gilmore, "Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class," pp. 597-614
IN-CLASS ESSAY ON HAWTHORNE CRITICISM |
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Part Three: The Waste Land |
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October 31 |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
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November 1 |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
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November 2 |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
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November 4 |
Sources |
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November 7 |
Sources |
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November 8 |
Lyndall Gordon, "The Composition of The Waste Land" |
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November 9 |
Lawrence Rainey, "The Price of Modernism: Publishing The Waste Land" |
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November 11 |
Reviews of The Waste Land by Woolf, Times Literary Supplement, Seldes, Wilson, Wylie, Aiken
MOODLE DISCUSSION OF SOURCE TEXTS DUE |
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November 14 |
Reviews of The Waste Land by Time, Times Literary Supplement, Powell, Munson, Cowley, Ellison |
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November 15 |
John Crowe Ransom, "Waste Lands" |
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November 16 |
I. A. Richards, "The Poetry of T. S. Eliot" |
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November 18 |
F. R. Leavis, "The Significance of the Modern Waste Land" |
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November 21 |
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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November 22 |
Cleanth Brooks, Jr., "The Waste Land: An Analysis" |
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November 23 |
Delmore Schwartz, "T. S. Eliot As the International Hero" |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 28 |
Denis Donoghue, "The Word within a Word" |
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November 29 |
Robert Langbaum, "The Walking Dead" |
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November 30 |
Marianne Thormählen, "The City in The Waste Land" |
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December 2 |
A. D. Moody, "A Cure for the Crisis of Civilization?"
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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December 5 |
Ronald Bush, "Unknown Terror and Mystery" |
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December 6 |
Maud Ellman, "A Sphinx without a Secret" |
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December 7 |
Tim Armstrong, "Eliot's Waste Paper" |
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December 9 |
Presentation Day |
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December 12 |
Presentation Day |
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December 13 |
Presentation Day |
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December 14 |
Presentation Day |
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December 15 |
Presentation Day |
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December 21 |
FINAL EXAM, 10-11:55am |