LitCrit Schedule

Schedule :

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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.

 

Prepare comparison paper

 

T

Oct 13

Peer review first comparison paper Revise comparison paper.

 

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

 

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”

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

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