English 2906
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.
| T | September 1 | Introduction |
| Th | September 3 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Chs. One-Six |
| T | September 8 | Ishiguro, Chs. Seven-Eleven |
| Th | September 10 | Ishiguro, Chs. Twelve-Sixteen |
| T | September 15 | Ishiguro, Chs. Seventeen-Twenty-Three Peer Edit Book Review |
| Th | September 17 | Charles Bressler, Literary Criticism, Ch. 1, Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature; Ch. 2, A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism |
| T | September 22 | Bressler, and ch. 3, Russian Formalism and New Criticism; Ch. 4, Reader-Oriented Criticism |
| Th | September 24 | William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I Book Review Due |
| T | September 29 | Shakespeare, Acts II and III |
| Th | October 1 | Shakespeare, Acts IV and V Quiz on Othello |
| T | October 6 | Thomas Rymer, "A Bloody Farce" G. K. Hunter, "Othello and Colour Prejudice" |
| Th | October 8 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "[Comments on Othello]" Stanley Cavell, "Epistemology and Tragedy: A Reading of Othello" |
| T | October 13 | James R. Siemon, "'Nay, That's Not Next': Othello, [5.2] in Performance, 1760-1900" |
| Th | October 15 | Michael Neill, "Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery and the Hideous in Othello" Peer-edit Passage Analysis Paper |
| T | October 20 | Michael D. Bristol, "Charivari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello" |
| Th | October 22 | Lois Potter, "[Five Modern Productions]" Discussion of Senior Portfolios for English Majors |
| T | October 27 | Bressler, Ch. 5, Modernity/Postmodernism, Structuralism/Poststructuralism, Deconstruction; Ch. 6, Psychoanalytic Criticism Passage Analysis Paper Due |
| Th | October 29 | Bressler, Ch. 7, Feminism; Ch. 8, Marxism; Ch. 9, Cultural Poetics or New Historicism |
| T | November 3 | Bressler, Ch. 10, Postcolonialism; Ch. 11, African-American Criticism |
| Th | November 5 | Bressler, Ch. 12, Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism; Ch. 13, Ecocriticism |
| T | November 10 | Quiz on Bressler Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Introduction; Book One—The Shimerdas |
| Th | November 12 | Cather, Book Two—The Hired Girls |
| T | November 17 | Cather, Book Three—Lena Lindgard; Book Four—The Pioneer Woman's Story |
| Th | November 19 | Cather, Book Five—Cuzak's Boys |
| T | November 24 | Quiz on My Ántonia Contemporary Reviews of My Ántonia Terence Martin, "The Drama of Memory in My Ántonia" |
| Th | November 26 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| T | December 1 | Blanche Gelfant, "The Forgotten Reaping Hook: Sex in My Ántonia" Peer-Edit Critical Analysis Paper |
| Th | December 3 | Susan J. Rosowski, "Pro/Creativity and a Kinship Aesthetic" |
| T | December 8 | Mike Fischer, "Pastoralism and Its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism" Janice Stout, "Coming to America/Escaping to Europe" |
| Th | December 10 | Marilee Lindemann, "'It Ain't My Prairie': Gender, Power and Narrative in My Ántonia" Critical Analysis Paper Due |
| T | December 15 | Final Exam, 2-3:55pm |
28 August 2020