Syllabus
Required Texts (all on 2-hour reserve at Rush Rhees Library):
Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. [PW]
Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004. [RR]
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Norton, 1976.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. New York: Norton, 1999.
| Date | Reading | Writing | Discussant |
| Jan 17 | Introduction | ||
| 22 | PW, 37-80. Mimesis, romantic authorship, hermeneutics, literary value (CRG) | ||
| 24 | RR 3-27. Formalisms (CRG) | ||
| 29 | PW 166-187. New Criticism; intentional fallacy (CRG) | Ruth | |
| 31 | PW 259-278. Structuralism (CRG) | Emily, Trevor | |
| Feb 5 | RR 53-75; 81-89. Structuralism, Saussureian linguistics | CRG 1** | Perrine |
| 7 | The Awakening, first half | ||
| 12 | Foucault, fromThe Archaeology of Knowledge, pp. 3-30 (electronic reserve) (CRG) | Ashley | |
| 14 | Foucault | Joe, Jess | |
| 19 | PW 319-338. Feminisms (CRG) | Heather, Michelle | |
| 21 | RR 766-790, 795-97. Feminist criticism | CRG 2** | |
| 26 | Kathleen Kearns, "The Nullification of Edna Pontellier" (electronic reserve) | Charlotte | |
| 28 | PW 362-385; RR 964-972. Race, nation, ethnicity (CRG) | Na Na | |
| Mar 4 | RR, 1005-1015. From Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark | Cheryl, Diana | |
| 6 | M. Birnbaum, "Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race" (electronic reserve) | Grant | |
| 18 | RR 643-46; 653-57; 693-701. Marx, The German Ideology; Althusser. | Danielle | |
| 20 | CRG 3** | ||
| 25 | PW 298-317. Deconstruction | Kevin, Kellie | |
| 27 | PW 340-360. Postcolonialism | Donté, Libet | |
| Apr 1 | Writing lab | Biblio** | |
| 3 | RR 1075-1088; 1100-1110. Story, history, language, power | Christy | |
| 8 | PW 199-209; RR 441-446. Psychoanalysis | Cynthia, Kelly | |
| 10 | PW 508-517. The gaze | Pavel | |
| 15 | Beth Newman, "Getting Fixed: Feminine Identity and Scopic Crisis in The Turn of the Screw" (electronic reserve) Blackboard seems to be broken again. Try clicking here for the article | Dave | |
| 17 | Apply different methodologies to Turn of the Screw | ||
| 22 | PW 427-447; RR 900-910. Gender and sexuality | CRG 4** | Pat |
| 24 | Writing lab--your first 3 pages | ||
| 29 | Writing lab--your first 5 pages |
Final Papers are due in my mailbox, 402 Lattimore Hall, 11:00 am on Wednesday, May 7. There are absolutely no exceptions.
And please don't put papers anywhere other than my mailbox, 402 Lattimore Hall. I won't get them if you do.
**These CRGs must be written and submitted in class on the day indicated.