English 1907
Schedule
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. Please note that Tuesday classes meet in a location (Chemistry 251) that is different from that of the MWF classes.
| T | September 6 | Introduction |
| Part One: Approaches to Literary Criticism | ||
| W | September 7 | Steven Lynn, Texts and Contexts, Chapters 1-2 |
| F | September 9 | Lynn, Chapter 3: New Criticism |
| M | September 12 | Lynn, Chapter 4: Reader Response Criticism |
| T | September 13 | Workshop: Writing about Literature |
| W | September 14 | Lynn, Chapter 5: Structuralism and Deconstruction |
| F | September 16 | Lynn, Chapter 6: Connecting the Text—Historical Criticism |
| M | September 19 | Lynn, Chapter 7: Minding the Work—Psychological Criticism |
| T | September 20 | Workshop: Writing about Literature |
| W | September 21 | Lynn, Chapter 8: Gendering the Text—Feminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory |
| F | September 23 | BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| Part Two: The Scarlet Letter | ||
| M | September 26 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom-House" |
| T | September 27 | Hawthorne, Letters, pp. 220-230 |
| W | September 28 | Hawthorne, Chapters I-IV PASSAGE ANALYSIS PAPER DUE IN CLASS |
| F | September 30 | Hawthorne, Chapters V-VII |
| M | October 3 | Reviews of The Scarlet Letter, pp. 237-273 |
| T | October 4 | Hawthorne, Chapters VIII-X |
| W | October 5 | Hawthorne, Chapters XI-XIV |
| F | October 7 | Michael Colacurcio, "Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson," pp. 304-330 |
| M | October 10 | Hawthorne, Chapters XV-XVIII |
| T | October 11 | Hawthorne, Chapters XIX-XXIV |
| W | October 12 | Laura Hanft Korobkin, "The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice," pp. 426-451 |
| F | October 14 | Hawthorne, Chapters XX-XXI |
| M | October 17 | Hawthorne, Chapters XXII-XIV |
| T | October 18 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| W | October 19 | Charles Rykamp, "The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter," pp. 291-303 |
| F | October 21 | Millicent Bell, "The Obliquity of Signs: The Scarlet Letter," pp. 451-463 |
| M | October 24 | Stephen Railton, "The Address of The Scarlet Letter," pp. 481-500 |
| T | October 25 | Sacvan Bercovitch, "The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter," pp. 576-597 |
| W | October 26 | Nina Baym, "Revisiting Hawthorne's Feminism," pp. 541-558 |
| F | October 28 | Michael T. Gilmore, "Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class," pp. 597-614 IN-CLASS ESSAY ON HAWTHORNE CRITICISM |
| Part Three: The Waste Land | ||
| M | October 31 | T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
| T | November 1 | T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
| W | November 2 | T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land |
| F | November 4 | Sources |
| M | November 7 | Sources |
| T | November 8 | Lyndall Gordon, "The Composition of The Waste Land" |
| W | November 9 | Lawrence Rainey, "The Price of Modernism: Publishing The Waste Land" |
| F | November 11 | Reviews of The Waste Land by Woolf, Times Literary Supplement, Seldes, Wilson, Wylie, Aiken MOODLE DISCUSSION OF SOURCE TEXTS DUE |
| M | November 14 | Reviews of The Waste Land by Time, Times Literary Supplement, Powell, Munson, Cowley, Ellison |
| T | November 15 | John Crowe Ransom, "Waste Lands" |
| W | November 16 | I. A. Richards, "The Poetry of T. S. Eliot" |
| F | November 18 | F. R. Leavis, "The Significance of the Modern Waste Land" |
| M | November 21 | PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| T | November 22 | Cleanth Brooks, Jr., "The Waste Land: An Analysis" |
| W | November 23 | Delmore Schwartz, "T. S. Eliot As the International Hero" |
| F | November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| M | November 28 | Denis Donoghue, "The Word within a Word" |
| T | November 29 | Robert Langbaum, "The Walking Dead" |
| W | November 30 | Marianne Thormählen, "The City in The Waste Land" |
| F | December 2 | A. D. Moody, "A Cure for the Crisis of Civilization?" ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| M | December 5 | Ronald Bush, "Unknown Terror and Mystery" |
| T | December 6 | Maud Ellman, "A Sphinx without a Secret" |
| W | December 7 | Tim Armstrong, "Eliot's Waste Paper" |
| F | December 9 | Presentation Day |
| M | December 12 | Presentation Day |
| T | December 13 | Presentation Day |
| W | December 14 | Presentation Day |
| F | December 15 | Presentation Day |
| W | December 21 | FINAL EXAM, 10-11:55am |
16 September 2011