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.

T	September 4	Introduction
Part One: Approaches to Literary Criticism

Th	September 6	Steven Lynn, Texts and Contexts, Chapters 1-3

T	September 11	Lynn, Chapter 4: Reader Response Criticism Lynn, Chapter 5: Structuralism and Deconstruction
Th	September 13	Lynn, Chapter 6: Connecting the Text—Historical Criticism Lynn, Chapter 7: Minding the Work—Psychological Criticism

T	September 18	Lynn, Chapter 8: Gendering the Text—Feminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory
Th	September 20	BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING

Part Two: The Poetry of John Keats

T	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)
Th	September 27	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

T	October 2	Paul de Man, "The Negative Path" (537-546) Marjorie Levenson, "Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style" (547-555)
Th	October 4	John Keats, "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)

T	October 9	Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583) Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592)
Th	October 11	John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (445-456) Jack Stillinger, "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes" (604-614)

T	October 16	John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462) Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-525)
Th	October 18	MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Part Three: As I Lay Dying

T	October 23	William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, pp. 3-31
Th	October 25	Faulkner, pp. 32-63

T	October 30	Faulkner, pp. 64-95
Th	November 1	Faulkner, pp. 96-130

T	November 6	Faulkner, pp. 131-149 Margaret Cheney Dawson, "Beside Addie's Coffin" (155-156) Julia K. W. Baker, "Literature and Less" (156-158)
Th	November 8	Edwin Muir, from New Novels (168-170) Carson McCullers, "The Russian Realists and Southern Literature" (205-209) Fred Hobson, "Benighted South" (210-213) Andrew Nelson Lytle, "The Hind Tit" (213-217) James Agee, "The Gudger House" (217-222) Thomas D. Clark, From "Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store" (222-226)

T	November 13	Olga Vickery, "The Dimensions of Consciousness" (236-248) Cleanth Brooks, "Odyssey of the Bundrens" (248-262)
Th	November 15	Calvin Bedient, "Pride and Nakedness: As I Lay Dying" (262-275) André Bleikasten, "The Setting" (276-285)

T	November 20	Eric Sundquist, "Death, Grief, Analogous Form: As I Lay Dying" (286-304) PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO
Th	November 22	Thanksgiving Holiday

T	November 27	Stephen M. Ross, "[Mimetic Voice]", (304-315) Doreen Fowler, "Matricide and the Mother's Revenge: As I Lay Dying" (315-328)
Th	November 29	Patrick O'Donnell, "Between the Family and the State: Nomadism and Authority in As I Lay Dying" (329-335) Richard Gray, "[A Southern Carnival]" (336-347)

T	December 4	John Limon, "Addie in No Man's Land" (348-362) Donald M. Kartiganer, "'By It I Would Stand and Fall': Life and Death in As I Lay Dying" (363-375) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS
Th	December 6	Presentation Day

T	December 11	Presentation Day
Th	December 13	Presentation Day

W	December 19	FINAL EXAM, 2-3:55pm