English 3906
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.
| W | September 4 | Introduction |
| Part One: Approaches to Literary Criticism | ||
| M | September 9 | Steven Lynn, Texts and Contexts, Chapters 1-3 |
| W | September 11 | Lynn, Chapter 4: Reader Response Criticism Lynn, Chapter 5: Structuralism and Deconstruction Quiz on Lynn, Chs. 1-5 |
| M | September 16 | Lynn, Chapter 6: Connecting the Text—Historical Criticism Lynn, Chapter 7: Minding the Work—Psychological Criticism |
| W | September 18 | Lynn, Chapter 8: Gendering the Text—Feminist Criticism, Postfeminism, and Queer Theory |
| M | September 23 | Quiz on Lynn, Chs. 6-8 BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| Part Two: The Poetry of John Keats | ||
| W | 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) |
| M | September 30 | 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 |
| W | October 2 | Paul de Man, "The Negative Path" (537-546) Marjorie Levenson, "Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style" (547-555) Quiz on Keats, de Man, Levenson |
| M | October 7 | John Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark" (307-311), "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) |
| W | October 9 | John Keats, "[Dear Reynolds, As Last Night I Lay in Bed]" Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583) Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592) |
| M | October 14 | John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (445-456) Jack Stillinger, "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes" (604-614) |
| W | October 16 | John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462) Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-525) |
| M | October 21 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| Part Three: The Sound and the Fury | ||
| W | October 23 | William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, April Seventh, 1928 |
| M | October 28 | Faulkner, June Second, 1910 (48-79) |
| W | October 30 | Faulkner, June Second, 1910 (79-113) Quiz on Faulkner up through p. 113 |
| M | November 4 | Falkner, April Sixth, 1928 |
| W | November 6 | Faulkner, April Eighth, 1928 |
| M | November 11 | Faulkner, Introduction (Two Versions) (225-232) Interviews, (232-237) C. Van Woodward, "The Irony of Southern History" (241-243) Robert Penn Warren, "Faulkner: Past and Future" (243-246) |
| W | November 13 | Richard H. King, "A Southern Renaissance" (246-255) Carolyn Porter, "Faulkner's America" (255-261) Jean-Paul Sartre, "On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner" (265-271) Quiz on Faulkner, Woodward, Warren, King, Porter, Sartre |
| M | November 18 | Irving Howe, "Faulkner and the Negroes" (272-275) Ralph Ellison, "Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity" (275-278) Olga Vickery, "The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective" (278-289) |
| W | November 20 | Cleanth Brooks, "Man, Time, and Eternity" (289-297) PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| M | November 25 | Michael Millgate, "The Sound and the Fury: [Story and Novel]" (297-310) John T. Irwin, "[Doubling and Incest in The Sound and the Fury]" (310-316) Myra Jehlen, "[Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Society]" (317-324) |
| W | November 27 | Donald Kartiganer, "[The Meaning of Form in] The Sound and the Fury" (324-343) David Minter, "Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury" (343-358) Quiz on Howe, Ellison, Vickery, Brooks, Millgate, Jehlen, Minter |
| M | December 2 | Warwick Wadlington, "The Sound and the Fury: A Logic of Tragedy" (358-370) John T. Mathews, "The Discover of Loss in The Sound and the Fury (370-397) |
| W | December 4 | Wesley Morris with Barbara Alverson, "A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone" (397-404) Minrose C. Gwin, "Hearing Caddy's Voice"(405-412) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| M | December 9 | André Bleikasten, "The Quest for Eurydice" (412-430) Philip M. Weinstein, "'If I Could Say Mother': Construing the Unsayable about Faulknerian Maternity" (430-442) |
| W | December 11 | Presentation Day |
| W | December 18 | FINAL EXAM, 10-11:55am |
23 September 2013