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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January 11 |
Introduction |
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January 16 |
Tom McCarthy, Remainder, chs. 1-5 |
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January 18 |
McCarthy, chs. 6-11 |
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January 23 |
McCarthy, chs. 12-16
Peer Edit Book Review |
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January 25 |
Charles Bressler, Literary Criticism, Ch. 1, Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature; Ch. 2, A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism
Quiz on McCarthy's Remainder |
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January 30 |
Bressler, and ch. 3, Russian Formalism and New Criticism; Ch. 4, Reader-Oriented Criticism |
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February 1 |
John Keats, Sonnet II "[To * * * * * *]" (50), Sonnet III "[Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison]" (50-51), Sonnet VII "[O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell]" (52)
Book Review Due |
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February 6 |
Keats, Sonnet X "[To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent]" (54), "Ode on Indolence" (334-336) |
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February 8 |
Keats, "[I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill]" (21-27), "To ---------" (375-376)
Paul de Man, "[The Negative Path]" (537-546) |
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February 13 |
Anonymous, Review in Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, October 1817 (95-97)
Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21, 27?, 1817 (107-109)
Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583) |
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February 15 |
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818 (126-127), "[Dear Reynolds, Last Night As I Lay My Bed]" (133-136)
Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592) |
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February 20 |
Midterm Exam |
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February 22 |
Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark" (307-311)
Peer-edit Poem Analysis Paper |
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February 27 |
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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March 1 |
Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462)
Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-625)
Poem Analysis Paper Due |
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March 5-9 |
Spring Break |
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March 13 |
Bressler, Ch. 5, Modernity/Postmodernism, Structuralism/Poststructuralism, Deconstruction; Ch. 6, Psychoanalytic Criticism |
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March 15 |
Bressler, Ch. 7, Feminism; Ch. 8, Marxism; Ch. 9, Cultural Poetics or New Historicism |
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March 20 |
Bressler, Ch. 10, Postcolonialism; Ch. 11, African-American Criticism |
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March 22 |
Bressler, Ch. 12, Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism; Ch. 13, Ecocriticism |
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March 27 |
Quiz on Bressler
Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Introduction; Book OneThe Shimerdas |
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March 29 |
Cather, Book TwoThe Hired Girls |
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April 3 |
Cather, Book ThreeLena Lindgard; Book FourThe Pioneer Woman's Story |
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April 5 |
Cather, Book FiveCuzak's Boys
Peer-Edit Critical Analysis Paper |
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April 10 |
Contemporary Reviews of My Ántonia |
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April 12 |
Terence Martin, "The Drama of Memory in My Ántonia" |
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April 17 |
Blanche Gelfant, "The Forgotten Reaping Hook: Sex in My Ántonia" |
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April 19 |
Susan J. Rosowski, "Pro/Creativity and a Kinship Aesthetic"
Critical Analysis Paper Due in Class |
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April 24 |
Mike Fischer, "Pastoralism and Its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism"
Janice Stout, "Coming to America/Escaping to Europe" |
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April 26 |
Marilee Lindemann, "'It Ain't My Prairie': Gender, Power and Narrative in My Ántonia" |
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May 3 |
Final Exam, 8-9:50am |
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