Intro to Literary Criticism, Harris, SJSU

Date	Topic	Reading Due	Assignment Due
Tue 1/26	Introductions: Me, You, Lit Crit	Greensheet Policies & Schedule Letters from Previous Students FURLOUGH DAYS Handout Hints for Reading Fiction Syllabus Policies & Schedule Discussion Linguistics, Cloud Tagging & the Value of Literary Criticism	Student Questionnaire
Thur 1/28		Heart of Darkness (17-46) Handout Critical Model Presentation & Essay Instructions	Discuss & Sign up for Critical Model Presentation (via email by Monday 12pm) OCE: Intellectual Autobiography 600 words, typed, email by Monday, 12pm
See Authors & Discuss Books at the CLA Events (www.litart.org)
Tue 2/2		Heart of Darkness (47-95) Handouts ICE Writing Tips Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Instructions	OCE: Plagiarism Tutorial (email scores by Wed 12pm - changed during 2/2 class meeting) Discuss Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Assignment
Thur 2/4	What is Literary Criticism?	TC: Introduction & Critical Worlds (3-37) NTC: Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" (2243-2249) HOD: "A Critical History of HoD" (99-114) Discussion TaPor Heart of Darkness E-Text Did You Know?	ICE
Tues 2/9	Formalism	NTC: Eichenbaum "Theory of the �Formal Method�" (1062-87) Relevant Info: Gogol Synopsis Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" Skaz
Thur 2/11	New Criticism	TC: Chp 3 Unifying the Work (39-52 & 63-64) NTC: Brooks, "Heresy of Paraphrase" & "The Formalist Critic" (1353-71) NTC: Ransom "Criticism, Inc." (1108-18)	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email) Presentations: Katherine Raynes, Brooks "Heresy of Paraphrase"
Tue 2/16	Structuralism	NTC: Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics" (960-977 NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57)	Presentations: Hoan Phan, Frye
Thur 2/18	Post-Structuralism & Reader-Response	TC: Chp 4 "Creating the Text"(67-84 & 103) HOD: "What is Reader-Response Criticism?" (115-126) HOD: Rabinowitz, "Reader Response, Reader Responsibility" (131-147) NTC: Iser "Interaction" (1673-82)	OCE due Monday by 5pm (via email)
Tue 2/23	Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction	HOD: "What is Deconstruction" (HoD 185-200) TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (107-122 & 140-42)
Thur 2/25		NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) NTC: Fish "Interpreting" (2071-89) TC Chp. 5 Writing help (122-34) Discussion How to Read Poetry	OCE due Monday by 5pm (moved to 3/3) Presentations: Melanie Heisinger, Barthes Desiree Seusy, Fish
Tue 3/2		NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36) HOD: Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (206-220)	Presentations: Tiffany Baptist, Foucault OCE (Deconstruction) due Wednesday by 5pm (via email) (moved from 2/25)
Thur 3/4	Psychoanalytical Criticism	TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (199-209 & 223-24) NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56)	OCE (Psychoanalysis) due Monday by 5pm (via email) Presentations: Ryan Howard, Freud "Fetishism" Gabriele Sanchez, Freud "The 'Uncanny'"
Tue 3/9	Marxism	TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (158-161) NTC: Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" (769-773) NTC: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54)	Presentations: Andrew Mitchell, Marx Michael Schauf, Wilson
Thur 3/11	NO CLASS: KH attending Digital Humanities meeting at Stanford University (per Dean Toepfer's request)	All assignments, readings & presentations have been moved back a class meeting NTC: Benjamin "Work of Art" (1166-86)	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentation: Scott Skinner, Benjamin
Tue 3/16	New Historicism	Meet in Steinbeck Center for a peek into Steinbeck Historical Materials HOD: "What is New Historicism" (221-33)	OCE: Pick one artifact from the Steinbeck Center collection (something they will let you observe). In 300-500 words, discuss the importance of that artifact to the study of Steinbeck (the author) or his writings. (No critical model identified here just yet.) In your response, be sure to provide a brief description of the artifact. (Due Wed by 5pm via email)
Thur 3/18	Marxism (contd.)	NTC: Benjamin "Work of Art" (1166-86) Discussion Alice Journals, British Library's Turning the Pages Hamlet's Soliloquy La Tour's "Penitent Magdalene" & Mermaid reproduction "Madame X" painting NTC: Greenblatt, "Introduction to The Power of Forms" (2251-54) NTC: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2460-75)	ICE/OCE Presentation: Scott Skinner, Benjamin Presentations: Saida Ammani, Greenblatt April Speights, Knapp & Michaels
Tue 3/23	New Historicism (contd)	NTC: Greenblatt, "Introduction to The Power of Forms" (2251-54) NTC: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2460-75) HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-57) HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16)	Presentations: Saida Ammani, Greenblatt April Speights, Knapp & Michaels Presentation: Stephanie Adkins, Thomas
Thur 3/25	FURLOUGH DAY -- KH ONLY No Class Meeting
Tue 3/30	SPRING BREAK
Thur 4/1	SPRING BREAK
Tue 4/6	No Class Today -- Instructor Illness	HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-57) HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16) TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (227-43 & 261-63) HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-61) NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29)	Presentation: Stephanie Adkins, Thomas Presentation: Nicole French, Woolf
Thur 4/8		HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-57) HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16) TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (227-43 & 261-63) HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-61) NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29) ~~NTC~~~~: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35)~~	ICE using Boy's Own Annual Presentation: Stephanie Adkins, Thomas Presentation: Nicole French, Woolf ~~Presentation:~~ ~~Dan Lu, Gilbert/Gubar~~
Tue 4/13	Anglo-American Feminism	TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (227-43 & 261-63) HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-61) NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29) ~~NTC~~~~: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35)~~ Handouts OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism Extra Online: Gubar, "Feminism Inside Out" (PMLA 121.5) NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92) Online: "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women"	Presentations: Nicole French, Woolf ~~Dan Lu, Gilbert/Gubar~~ Presentation: Samantha von Summer, Mulvey
Thur 4/15		NTC: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35) (moved from 4/13) NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92) Online: "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women" HOD: Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (169-84)	~~OCE~~ Presentation: Dan Lu, Gilbert/Gubar (moved from 4/13) Samantha von Summer, Mulvey
Tue 4/20	Gender Theory	Online: "Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article Online: hooks, "Is Paris Burning?" (warning: graphic!) Video: "Paris is Burning" (in-class)	OCE on "Paris is Burning" video due Thursday 10am via email (added 4/20) Presentations: Erica King, hooks
Thur 4/22	Queer Theory	NTC: Sedgwick excerpts, Between Men (2434-38) & Epistemology of the Closet (2438-45) Online: "Forum: Conference Debates" (PMLA 121.5) Handouts Definition of Queer Theory (various sources)	OCE Presentation: Amanda Garcia, Sedgwick Between Men DJ Avilucea, Epistemology
Tues 4/27	Cultural Criticism	HOD: What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1880-94)	~~ICE/OCE~~
Thur 4/29	FURLOUGH DAY -- KH ONLY No Class Meeting
Tue 5/4	Race & Ethnicity Studies	NTC: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23) NTC: ~~Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17)~~ (moved to 5/11)	Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Presentations: Sharlene Cabudoy, Anzaldua ~~Jessica Sauceda, Hughes~~ (moved to 5/11)
Thur 5/6	FURLOUGH DAY -- ALL FACULTY No Class Meeting
Tue 5/11		HOD: Hughes "Negro Artist" (1313-17) (moved to 5/11) HOD: Brantlinger article (277-298) NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94) Handouts "Harlem," Langston Hughes	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentations: Jessica Sauceda, Hughes Jesus Espinoza, Achebe
Thur 5/13	Review & Looking Forward to Postmodernism, Masculinist Studies & Digital Studies	Online: "The Sitcom Digresses" (NYT Magazine Online: Liberal Lies on Fox News (video) Online: Did You Know 2.0 (video) Online: You Know You've Done too Much Theory When (Cartoon) Online: "Think You Know How to Read, Do You?" Online: "How 'bout that Wordsworth!" (3-4) Online: Hypertext Novel Resources Definition, Masculinity Studies Masculinity Studies Reader	Discuss Final Exam Essay (only handed out in class)
Final Exam Meeting Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 12:15-2:30pm
Readings for Final Exam Essay: Charlotte Delbo, None of Us Will Return Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"
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