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 9 |
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
Quiz on Lynn, Chs. 1-5 |
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September 16 |
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 23 |
Quiz on Lynn, Chs. 6-8
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 30 |
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)
Quiz on Keats, de Man, Levenson |
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October 7 |
John Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark" (307-311), "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 |
John Keats, "[Dear Reynolds, As Last Night I Lay in Bed]"
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 14 |
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 21 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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Part Three: The Sound and the Fury |
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October 23 |
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, April Seventh, 1928 |
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October 28 |
Faulkner, June Second, 1910 (48-79) |
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October 30 |
Faulkner, June Second, 1910 (79-113)
Quiz on Faulkner up through p. 113 |
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November 4 |
Falkner, April Sixth, 1928 |
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November 6 |
Faulkner, April Eighth, 1928 |
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November 11 |
Faulkner, Introduction (Two Versions) (225-232)
Interviews, (232-237)
C. Van Woodward, "The Irony of Southern History" (241-243)
Robert Penn Warren, "Faulkner: Past and Future" (243-246) |
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November 13 |
Richard H. King, "A Southern Renaissance" (246-255)
Carolyn Porter, "Faulkner's America" (255-261)
Jean-Paul Sartre, "On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner" (265-271)
Quiz on Faulkner, Woodward, Warren, King, Porter, Sartre |
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November 18 |
Irving Howe, "Faulkner and the Negroes" (272-275)
Ralph Ellison, "Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity" (275-278)
Olga Vickery, "The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective" (278-289) |
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November 20 |
Cleanth Brooks, "Man, Time, and Eternity" (289-297)
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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November 25 |
Michael Millgate, "The Sound and the Fury: [Story and Novel]" (297-310)
John T. Irwin, "[Doubling and Incest in The Sound and the Fury]" (310-316)
Myra Jehlen, "[Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Society]" (317-324) |
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November 27 |
Donald Kartiganer, "[The Meaning of Form in] The Sound and the Fury" (324-343)
David Minter, "Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury" (343-358)
Quiz on Howe, Ellison, Vickery, Brooks, Millgate, Jehlen, Minter |
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December 2 |
Warwick Wadlington, "The Sound and the Fury: A Logic of Tragedy" (358-370)
John T. Mathews, "The Discover of Loss in The Sound and the Fury (370-397) |
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December 4 |
Wesley Morris with Barbara Alverson, "A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone" (397-404)
Minrose C. Gwin, "Hearing Caddy's Voice"(405-412)
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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December 9 |
André Bleikasten, "The Quest for Eurydice" (412-430)
Philip M. Weinstein, "'If I Could Say Mother': Construing the Unsayable about Faulknerian Maternity" (430-442) |
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December 11 |
Presentation Day |
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December 18 |
FINAL EXAM, 10-11:55am |
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