Schedule :
Course Objectives| Texts | Policies | Assignments and Grades | Schedule
This is a tentative schedule, and it will likely be revised as we go–consider it a final draft that we’ll be putting the finishing touches on throughout the semester. I will not print out changes to this syllabus, though I will try to tell you about them in class. It’s your job to visit this page online each week to check assignments. There will be some supplementary readings of primary theoretical texts, TBA.
| Date | In-Class | For Next Time |
| TH
Aug 27 |
Introductions to course, each other, and literary criticism; decide which critical approaches to study: are these okay or do you want to do others instead? Sign up for the class wiki and pick a username. | Tyson Ch 1 + at least half of Chopin. Introduce yourself on class wiki. |
| T
Sept 1 |
Discuss Tyson and Chopin (plot-level) (Username crossreference sheet.) | Finish Chopin |
| TH
Sept 3 |
Discuss Chopin and contextual docs | Fitzgerald |
| T
Sept 8 |
Discuss The Great Gatsby | Tyson, Ch 5 |
| TH
Sept 10 |
New Criticism | Tyson, ch 4 |
| T
Sept 15 |
Feminist Criticism | Walker, p 186- 222; Walker, p 223-237 + Cixous’s Laugh of the Medusa |
| TH
Sept 17 |
Feminist/Gender Criticism | READING NOTES: Feminist or Gender Criticism + Fausto-Sterling’s Five Sexes |
| T
Sept 22 |
Feminist/Gender Criticism + 12th Class Day password switch | Tyson, ch 6 |
| TH
Sept 24 |
Reader Response Criticism | Walker, p 337-352 |
| T
Sept 29 |
Reader Response Criticism | READING NOTES: Reader Response Criticism + Tyson, ch 3 |
| TH
Oct 1 |
Marxist Criticism | |
| T
Oct 6 |
Marxist Criticism | READING NOTES: Marxist Criticism
Optional Reading: Althusser: “Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus” |
| TH
Oct 8 |
Marxist Criticism + Review + questions about comparison paper.
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Prepare comparison paper
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| T
Oct 13 |
Peer review first comparison paper | Revise comparison paper.
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| TH
Oct 15 |
[usc] | Tyson, ch 9 |
| T
Oct 20 |
Comparison paper due. New Historical Criticism | Walker, p 257- 274 + contextual documents, p 140-166 + excerpt from Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
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| TH
Oct 22 |
New Historical Criticism | |
| T
Oct 27 |
New Historical Criticism | READING NOTES: New Historical Criticism + Tyson, ch 12 |
| TH
Oct 29 |
Postcolonial Criticism | Read Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” |
| T
Nov 3 |
Postcolonial Criticism
FYI: here’s one example of a fine first analysis paper |
READING NOTES: Postcolonial Criticism + Tyson, ch 2 |
| TH
Nov 5 |
Psychoanalytic Criticism
+ For those who asked, the Bobbitt article: “Breaking Up [at] Phallocracy” |
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| T
Nov 10 |
Rewrites of first comparison paper due. Psychoanalytic Criticism | READING NOTES: Psychoanalytic Criticism + Tyson, ch 8 |
| TH
Nov 12 |
Deconstructive Criticism | Walker, p 291-311 |
| T
Nov 17 |
Deconstructive Criticism | READING NOTES: Deconstructive Criticism |
| TH
Nov 19 |
Deconstructive Criticism + organize peer review groups for online peer review | Prepare comparison paper |
| T
Nov 24 |
peer review comparison paper online | revise comparison paper |
| TH
Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving | |
| T
Dec 1 |
Comparison papers due. Review and questions about final paper | Prepare final paper for peer review |
| TH
Dec 3 |
Peer review final paper. | Revise final paper |
| Saturday
December 5 |
Final papers due by 5pm via email to me |
Course Objectives| Texts | Policies | Assignments and Grades | Schedule