The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. Items followed by an asterisk are in the Adams anthology of critical theory. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
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August 31 |
Introduction |
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September 2 |
William Deresiewicz, "The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market" (available on Moodle)
Plato, from Ion*, from Republic* |
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September 7 |
Labor Day Holiday |
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September 9 |
Guest Q and A: Craig Stroupe on the English M. A. Program
Plato, Phaedrus (available online) |
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September 14 |
Aristotle, Poetics*
Horace, Art of Poetry* |
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September 16 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON CLASSICAL CRITICISM
Longinus, On the Sublime* |
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September 21 |
PROPOSAL DUE
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Chapters 1-5 (1-60) |
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September 23 |
Ishiguro, Chapters 6-9 (61-114) |
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September 28 |
Ishiguro, Chapters 10-17 (115-206) |
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September 30 |
Ishiguro, Chapters 18-23 (207-288) |
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October 5 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON NEVER LET ME GO
Sir Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning*, "Preface to the Wisdom of the Ancients,"* from The New Organon*
Pierre Corneille, "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place"* |
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October 7 |
ABSTRACT DUE
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, from Laocoön*
Friedrich Schiller, from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man* |
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October 12 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry"*
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The American Scholar,"* from "The Poet"* |
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October 14 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM
Bruce Robbins, "Cruelty Is Bad"
Keith MacDonald, "Days of Past Futures" |
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October 19 |
Karl Shaddox, "Generic Considerations in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
Shameem Black, "Ishiguro's Inhuman Esthetics"
Anne Whitehead, "Writing with Care" |
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October 21 |
PROSPECTUS DUE
Nancy Armstrong, "The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction"
Jane Elliott, "Suffering Agency" |
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October 26 |
Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"*
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Marxism and Existentialism"*
Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture"* |
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October 28 |
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"
Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas"
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, The Body of the Condemned |
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November 2 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
Foucault, Discipline and Punish, The Spectacle of the Scaffold |
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November 4 |
Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Panopticism |
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November 9 |
Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Prison |
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November 11 |
WORKSHOP: TOPIC PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION
Barbara Johnson, Translator's Introduction to Dissemination |
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November 16 |
Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, Outwork |
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November 18 |
Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, Plato's Pharmacy, Part I
PEER-EDITING OF SEMINAR PAPER |
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November 23 |
Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, Plato's Pharmacy, Part II |
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November 25 |
Paul de Man, "The Resistance to Theory"* |
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November 30 |
Edward Said, from Orientalism*
Stanley Fish, "Is There a Text in This Class?"* |
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December 2 |
RESPONSE PAPER ON POSTMODERN CRITICISM DUE |
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December 7 |
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, "Introduction: Rhizome"* |
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December 9 |
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Epistemology of the Closet*
SEMINAR PAPER DUE |