SCHEDULE of READINGS & ASSIGNMEN

Date	Lecture/Discussion	Reading Due	Assignment Due
Friday 8/26	Introductions	�Little Red Riding Hood,� Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (See library reserve for entire collection) Theory Query: Who said "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle"?
9/2	Formalism	TC: Introduction & Critical Worlds (3-34) NTC: Eichenbaum �Theory of the ‛Formal Method'� (1062-87) NTC: Ransom �Criticism, Inc.� (1108-18) Theory Query: Formalism and Positivism Lecture Notes: Formalism & New Criticism Handouts: Pound's Poem (Historical) Synopsis of Gogol's "Overcoat" Definition of "skaz"	No Office Hours INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY In-Class Essay (Prompt) Top
9/9	New Criticism	TC: Chp 3 Unifying the Work (37-57) NTC: Brooks, "Heresy of Paraphrase" & "The Formalist Critic" (1353-71) Handouts: Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - Excerpts Eliot reads his poem See Full Text and more Audio & Historical Material	Discuss Presentation/Essay Discuss Effective In-Class Essay In-Class Essay (Prompt)
9/16	Structuralism & Post-Structuralism (Reader- Response)	NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57) TC: Chp 4 "Creating the Text" (61-93) NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) & "From Work to Text" (1470-75) NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36)	Discuss Critical Review Essay In-Class Essay (Prompt)
9/23	Post-Structuralism (Reader-Response & Deconstruction)	TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (97-129) NTC: Johnson "Melville's Fist" (2319-37) NTC: Iser "Interaction" (1673-82) NTC: Fish "Interpreting" (2071-89) Online: Derrida Archive Fever	Give Turnitin: How To, Turnitin: Submitting & Password (in-class) Student Presentations: 1) Huma, Iser, "Interaction" (see Notes from Huma's presentation) In-Class Essay (Prompt)
9/30	Psychoanalytical Criticism	TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (183-208) NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56) NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92)	CRITICAL REVIEW ESSAY Student Presentations 1) Mark, Freud, "Fetishism" (see Notes from Mark's presentation) 2) Mirina, Mulvey, "Visual Pleasures"
10/7	Marxism	TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (133-179) NTC: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54) NTC: Benjamin "Work of Art" (1166-86) Online: Hamlet's Soliloquy, La Tour's "Penitent Magdalene" & Mermaid reproduction, Edvard Munch, "The Scream," "Madame X" painting	Student Presentations 1) Jennifer, Benjamin, "Work" In-Class Essay (Prompt) Mid-Term Course Evaluation Top
10/14	Mid-Term Exam Prep	See "The Matrix" in preparation for mid-term exam	Discuss Mid-Term Exam (no online handout) "The Matrix" on IRC reserve Due by 5pm Monday, 10/24 (English Dept. mailbox FO 102)
10/21		Class Cancelled Mid-Term Essay due 5pm Monday, 10/24
10/28	Feminist, Post-Feminist & Queer Theory (New Historicism)	TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (211-241) NTC: Woolf Room (1021-29) NTC: Beauvoir Second Sex (1406-1414) Handouts: OED "feminist" & "feminism" definitions	Student Presentations 1) Kari, Woolf, Room 2) Kimberly, Beauvoir, Second Sex In-Class Essay (Prompt)
11/4	Queer Theory	NTC: Sedgwick Between Men (2434-38) & Epistomology of the Closet (2438-45) NTC: Gilbert/Gubar Madwoman (2023-35) NTC: Bordo Unbearable Weight (2362-76) Handouts: Queer Theory Definitions & Literary Text	Student Presentations 1) Shawn, Between Men, "Crying Game" 2) Lynesshia, Epistomology In-Class Essay (Prompt)
11/11	Post-Colonial & Cultural Studies (New Historicism)	NTC: Anzaldua Borderlands (2211-23) NTC: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17) Online: "Harlem" (Poem) NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94) Online: Excerpts from Conrad's Heart of Darkness UVA E-Text: 80-86 (slavery) & 93-98 (moon)	Student Presentations 1) Victor, Achebe 2) Monecia, "Negro Artists" 3) Chris, Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman & Cisneros 4) Raphael, Derrida, Archive Fever In-Class Essay (Prompt) Top
11/18	Postmodernism	NTC: Lyotard "Defining Postmodernism" (1612-15) NTC: Jameson "Postmodernism" (1960-74) NTC: Haraway "Cyborg Manifesto" (2269-99) NTC: hooks "Postmodern Blackness" (2478-84) Handouts: Great Expectations A, B, C, D & Warhol's Art	Student Presentations 1) Rachel, Haraway's Cyborgs 2) Charles, hooks In-Class Essay (Prompt)
11/25	Thanksgiving Holiday � No Class Note: Pride & Prejudice, San Jose Rep Theater (11/26-12/30) Student & Group Discounts Post-show discussion w/actors after Matinee
12/2	New Trends in Theory: Hyper-Libraries, Dynamic (User-Driven) Websites, Hypertextual Readers, Authors, Writers (Bloggers?)	NTC: Moulthrop "Hypertext" (2504) Online: Monke "Charlotte's Webpage" Online: McGann "Literary Scholarship in the Digital Future," Term Paper Objections, Google's Proposal (website), Criticism of Google, Recent NYT Article on Google Online (Dynamic): Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (website), Towards Tag Poetry (website), Wikipedia (website) Handout: You Know You've Done too Much Theory When: Cartoon	*Discuss Final Exam Essay* (no online handout) Student Presentations 1) Lance, Moulthrop
Final Exam Readings: Charlotte Delbo, None of Us Will Return (literature) September 11th Digital Archive (website) Young Frankenstein (movie; on reserve in IRC 120, Call No. 266) Texts & Contexts (our handbook)
FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, December 14 (no meeting) Final Essay Due by 2pm (Also Submit to Turnitin.com) Final In-Class Essay Due (Prompt) (Pick up graded Presentation Essays) Top