Intro to Literary Criticism, Harris, SJSU

Date	Topic	Reading Due	Assignment Due
Tue 8/25	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 8/27		Heart of Darkness (17-46) Handout Critical Model Presentation & Essay Instructions	Discuss & Sign up for Critical Model Presentation (via email by Monday 5pm) OCE: Intellectual Autobiography 600 words, typed, email by Monday, 5pm
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Tue 9/1		Heart of Darkness (47-95) Handouts (moved from 9/3): ICE Writing Tips Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Instructions	Discuss Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay Assignment (moved from 9/3)
Thur 9/3	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)	~~ICE/OCE~~ (deleted 9/3)
Tues 9/8	FURLOUGH DAY -- KH ONLY No Class Meeting moved from Thur 9/10
Thur 9/10	*moved from Tues 9/8* Formalism	*moved from Tues 9/8* NTC: Eichenbaum "Theory of the �Formal Method�" (1062-87) Relevant Info: Gogol Synopsis Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" Skaz	*moved from Tues 9/8* ICE
Tue 9/15	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: Answer questions in TC p.59 & email by Wed 5pm (added during class) Presentations: Carl Evans, Brooks "The Formalist Critic" David Laranjeira, Ransom
Thur 9/17	Structuralism	NTC: Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics" (960-977 NTC: Frye, "Archetypes" (1445-57) Handouts: Student ICE Example (sent via email)	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentations: Katie Holmes, Saussure
Tue 9/22	FURLOUGH DAY -- ALL FACULTY No Class Meeting
Thur 9/24	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) Handouts: Student ICE Example (sent via email)	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentations: Areeba Abid, Iser (Presentation Slides [PDF])
Tue 9/29	Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction	HOD: "What is Deconstruction" (HoD 185-200) TC: Chp 5 "Opening Up the Text" (107-122 & 140-42)	OCE due by 10am Thurs via email (moved from 9/24)
Thur 10/1		NTC: Barthes "Death of the Author" (1466-70) & "From Work to Text" (1470-75) NTC: Fish "Interpreting" (2071-89) TC Chp. 5 Writing help (122-34) Discussion Summary of Fish Article, Explanation of Deconstruction & Strategies for Application (KH Lecture Notes) Handouts: Student ICE Example (sent via email)	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentations: Ruel Galinato, Barthes "Death of the Author" Tony Peluso, Fish
Tue 10/6		NTC: Foucault "What is an Author" (1622-36) HOD: Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (206-220)	Presentations: Charlotte Garcia, Foucault
Thur 10/8	Psychoanalytical Criticism	TC: Chp 7 "Minding the Work" (199-209 & 223-24) NTC: Freud "The 'Uncanny'" (929-52) & "Fetishism" (952-56)	OCE due Monday 1pm via email Presentations: Robyn McCreight, Freud "Fetishism"
Tue 10/13		NTC: Mulvey "Visual Pleasures" (2181-92) Online: "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women"	Presentations: Ylani Roth, Mulvey
Thur 10/15		Catch-up Day: Writing Practice & Discussion Guest Speakers: Maria Judnick & Heather Stanger	Annotated Bibliography & Reflective Essay
Tue 10/20	Marxism	TC: Chp 6 "Connecting the Text" (158-161) NTC: Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" (769-773) NTC: Wilson "Marxism & Literature (1243-54)	Presentations: Montgomery Wilson, Marx
Thur 10/22	CLASS CANCELLED	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	~~ICE/OCE~~
Tue 10/27	New Historicism	Meet in Steinbeck Center for a peek into Steinbeck Historical Materials HOD: "What is New Historicism" (221-33)	OCE
Thur 10/29		NTC: Greenblatt, "Introduction to The Power of Forms" (2251-54) NTC: Knapp & Michaels, "Against Theory" (2460-75)	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentations: Benny Malto, Greenblatt Peter Skeehan, Knapp & Michaels
Tue 11/3		HOD: Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order" (239-57) HOD: "Introduction: Biographical & Historical Contexts" (3-16)	ICE (added 10/29/09)
Thur 11/5	FURLOUGH DAY -- KH ONLY No Class Meeting
Tue 11/10	Anglo-American Feminism	TC: Chp 8 "Gendering the Text" (227-43 & 261-63) HOD: "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism" (148-61) Handouts OED Definition of Feminist/Feminism	Presentations: ~~Mechele Stolar, Woolf~~
Thur 11/12		NTC: Woolf, Room (1021-29) (moved from 11/10) NTC: Gilbert/Gubar, Madwoman (2023-35) Online: Gubar, "Feminism Inside Out" (PMLA 121.5)	~~OCE~~ Presentations: Mechele Stolar, Woolf (moved from 11/10) Amirissa Mina, Gilbert/Gubar
Tue 11/17	Gender Theory	HOD: Smith, "Too Beautiful Altogether" (169-84) (moved from 11/12) Online: "Gender as a Personal Choice," NYTimes article Online: hooks, "Is Paris Burning?" (warning: graphic!) (added 8/24/09) Video: "Paris is Burning" (in-class)	Presentations: Pollyanna Macchiano, Smith (moved from 11/12) Kimberly Troutman, hooks
Thur 11/19	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: due by Monday, 3pm via email Presentations: Enrique Munoz, Sedgwick Epistemology
Tues 11/24	Cultural Criticism	HOD: What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1880-94)	~~ICE/OCE~~ Presentations: ~~Cait Engwall, Ohmann~~
11/26	THANKSGIVING No Class Meeting
Tue 12/1	Race & Ethnicity Studies	HOD: What is Cultural Criticism" (258-271) NTC: Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon" (1880-94) (moved from 11/24) NTC: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23) NTC: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17) Handouts "Harlem," Langston Hughes	Presentations: Cait Engwall, Ohmann (moved from 11/24) ~~Lee Dydo, Anzaldua~~
Thur 12/3		NTC: Anzaldua, Borderlands (2211-23) NTC: Hughes "Negro Artists" (1313-17) (moved from 12/1) HOD: Brantlinger article (277-298) NTC: Achebe "Image of Africa" (1781-94)	~~OCE due by Mon 3pm~~ Presentations: Lee Dydo, Anzaldua (moved from 12/1) Mary Alexander, Achebe Voluntary: Revised Annotated Bibliography Entry & original entire Annotated Bibliography writing- added 11/24
Tue 12/8	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 Monday, December 14, 9:45am-12pm

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