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.

Th	January 11	Introduction
T	January 16	Tom McCarthy, Remainder, chs. 1-5
Th	January 18	McCarthy, chs. 6-11

T	January 23	McCarthy, chs. 12-16 Peer Edit Book Review
Th	January 25	Charles Bressler, Literary Criticism, Ch. 1, Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature; Ch. 2, A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism Quiz on McCarthy's Remainder

T	January 30	Bressler, and ch. 3, Russian Formalism and New Criticism; Ch. 4, Reader-Oriented Criticism
Th	February 1	John Keats, Sonnet II "[To * * * * * ]" (50), Sonnet III "[Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison]" (50-51), Sonnet VII "[O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell]" (52) Book Review Due*

T	February 6	Keats, Sonnet X "[To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent]" (54), "Ode on Indolence" (334-336)
Th	February 8	Keats, "[I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill]" (21-27), "To ---------" (375-376) Paul de Man, "[The Negative Path]" (537-546)

T	February 13	Anonymous, Review in Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, October 1817 (95-97) Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21, 27?, 1817 (107-109) Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583)
Th	February 15	Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818 (126-127), "[Dear Reynolds, Last Night As I Lay My Bed]" (133-136) Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592)

T	February 20	Midterm Exam
Th	February 22	Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark" (307-311) Peer-edit Poem Analysis Paper

T	February 27	Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (445-456) Jack Stillinger, "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in The Eve of St. Agnes" (604-614)
Th	March 1	Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462) Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-625) Poem Analysis Paper Due

	March 5-9	Spring Break

T	March 13	Bressler, Ch. 5, Modernity/Postmodernism, Structuralism/Poststructuralism, Deconstruction; Ch. 6, Psychoanalytic Criticism
Th	March 15	Bressler, Ch. 7, Feminism; Ch. 8, Marxism; Ch. 9, Cultural Poetics or New Historicism

T	March 20	Bressler, Ch. 10, Postcolonialism; Ch. 11, African-American Criticism
Th	March 22	Bressler, Ch. 12, Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Criticism; Ch. 13, Ecocriticism

T	March 27	Quiz on Bressler Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Introduction; Book One—The Shimerdas
Th	March 29	Cather, Book Two—The Hired Girls

T	April 3	Cather, Book Three—Lena Lindgard; Book Four—The Pioneer Woman's Story
Th	April 5	Cather, Book Five—Cuzak's Boys Peer-Edit Critical Analysis Paper

T	April 10	Contemporary Reviews of My Ántonia
Th	April 12	Terence Martin, "The Drama of Memory in My Ántonia"

T	April 17	Blanche Gelfant, "The Forgotten Reaping Hook: Sex in My Ántonia"
Th	April 19	Susan J. Rosowski, "Pro/Creativity and a Kinship Aesthetic" Critical Analysis Paper Due in Class

T	April 24	Mike Fischer, "Pastoralism and Its Discontents: Willa Cather and the Burden of Imperialism" Janice Stout, "Coming to America/Escaping to Europe"
Th	April 26	Marilee Lindemann, "'It Ain't My Prairie': Gender, Power and Narrative in My Ántonia"

Th	May 3	Final Exam, 8-9:50am