Schedule
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.
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September 4 |
Introduction |
Part One: Approaches to Literary Criticism |
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September 6 |
Steven Lynn, Texts and Contexts, Chapters 1-3 |
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September 11 |
Lynn, Chapter 4: Reader Response Criticism
Lynn, Chapter 5: Structuralism and Deconstruction |
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September 13 |
Lynn, Chapter 6: Connecting the TextHistorical Criticism
Lynn, Chapter 7: Minding the WorkPsychological Criticism |
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September 18 |
Lynn, Chapter 8: Gendering the TextFeminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory |
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September 20 |
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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Part Two: The Poetry of John Keats |
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September 25 |
John Keats, II. "To * * * * * *" (50), III. "Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison" (50), VII. [O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell] (52), XVII. [Happy Is England! I Could Be Content] (58), "To Haydon with a Sonnet on Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (72-73), "Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair" (113-114) |
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September 27 |
John Keats, "Ode on Indolence" (334-336), "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (340-341), "Ode to a Nightingale" (457-460), "Ode to Psyche" (463-465), "Ode on Melancholy" (473-474)
PASSAGE ANALYSIS PAPER DUE IN CLASS |
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October 2 |
Paul de Man, "The Negative Path" (537-546)
Marjorie Levenson, "Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style" (547-555) |
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October 4 |
John Keats, "Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21, 27?, 1817" (107-109), "Letter to Fanny Brawne, July 8, 1819" (350-351)
Grant F. Scott, "Keats in His Letters" (555-563)
Margaret Homans, "Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats" (563-572) |
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October 9 |
Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583)
Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592) |
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October 11 |
John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (445-456)
Jack Stillinger, "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes" (604-614) |
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October 16 |
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462)
Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-525) |
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October 18 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
Part Three: As I Lay Dying |
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October 23 |
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, pp. 3-31 |
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October 25 |
Faulkner, pp. 32-63 |
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October 30 |
Faulkner, pp. 64-95 |
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November 1 |
Faulkner, pp. 96-130 |
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November 6 |
Faulkner, pp. 131-149
Margaret Cheney Dawson, "Beside Addie's Coffin" (155-156)
Julia K. W. Baker, "Literature and Less" (156-158) |
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November 8 |
Edwin Muir, from New Novels (168-170)
Carson McCullers, "The Russian Realists and Southern Literature" (205-209)
Fred Hobson, "Benighted South" (210-213)
Andrew Nelson Lytle, "The Hind Tit" (213-217)
James Agee, "The Gudger House" (217-222)
Thomas D. Clark, From "Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store" (222-226) |
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November 13 |
Olga Vickery, "The Dimensions of Consciousness" (236-248)
Cleanth Brooks, "Odyssey of the Bundrens" (248-262) |
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November 15 |
Calvin Bedient, "Pride and Nakedness: As I Lay Dying" (262-275)
André Bleikasten, "The Setting" (276-285) |
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November 20 |
Eric Sundquist, "Death, Grief, Analogous Form: As I Lay Dying" (286-304)
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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November 22 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 27 |
Stephen M. Ross, "[Mimetic Voice]", (304-315)
Doreen Fowler, "Matricide and the Mother's Revenge: As I Lay Dying" (315-328) |
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November 29 |
Patrick O'Donnell, "Between the Family and the State: Nomadism and Authority in As I Lay Dying" (329-335)
Richard Gray, "[A Southern Carnival]" (336-347) |
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December 4 |
John Limon, "Addie in No Man's Land" (348-362)
Donald M. Kartiganer, "'By It I Would Stand and Fall': Life and Death in As I Lay Dying" (363-375)
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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December 6 |
Presentation Day |
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December 11 |
Presentation Day |
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December 13 |
Presentation Day |
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December 19 |
FINAL EXAM, 2-3:55pm |
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