
Part I: Waltz of the Dead
White Males
1. W, Aug 18: Intro
to Class:
Policy Statement*,
Syllabus*
2. M, Aug 23:
Intro to Criticism: First chap
of TC; Criticism Def from Abrams
;
Abrams Chart
; LCB Chap
1
3. W, Aug 25: Classical Mimetic
Approach -- Plato: CMS: Republic; The Ion;
Allegory of Cave
; LCB
Unit
#1—Critical Issues, Plato-- Due Friday, August 27
4. M, Aug 30: Mimetic -> Rhetorical
-- Aristotle: CMS: Poetics. “Aristotelian
Miss Moppet” (X) LCB
5. W, Sep 1: Classical Rhetorical
Approaches – CMS: Longinus and Horace, OX
“sublime”LCB
6. M, Sep 6: Neo-Platonism: Dante
and Sidney: CMS: Letter to Con Grande; Apology for Poetry, OX “neo-plat”
LCB
7. W, Sep 8: The Eighteenth Century:
Pope and Johnson: CMS, Essay on Crit; Preface to Sksp; LCB
Unit#2
– Rhetorical Criticism -- Due Friday, Sept 10
8. M, Sep 13: Shift to Expressive
– Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley: CSM
& LCB, OX “Romanticism”
9. W, Sep 15 : Moving Towards
Objective -- Arnold and Eliot: CSM (Study
of P, Tradit and IT) OX “Modernism”
Unit#3
– Early Modern Crit – Due Monday, Sept 20
10. M, Sep 20: Midterm
Review
11. W, Sep 22: Intro to Research
Paper Project and Modern Criticism. TC, Chap 9
***Midterm
Take-home Due Friday, Sept 24***
Part II: Modern
Dances
Unit#4
– Literary Research -- Due Monday, Sept 27
12. M, Sep 27: Historical/
Biographical Criticism: TC Chap 6 1st part. Taggard (X)
13. W, Sep 29: New
Criticism 1: TC Chap 2 on NC, pp 14-17, Chap 3, pp 33-42; OX,
New Crit”; LCB Chap 3
***Proposal
and Initial Reference Bibliography Due Friday, Oct 1****
14. M, Oct 4: New
Criticism 2: CSM : Ransom, Brooks
15. W, Oct 6: New
Criticism Application: “My Life Had Stood”; Anderson; Weisbach (X)
Unit
#5 – New Criticism – Due Friday, Oct 8 (Last
day to drop -->Friday, Oct 8)
16. M, Oct 11: Psychological
Criticism & Application: TC Cahp 2, 29-9, Chap 7, 167-176; Maps
of Mind (X); LCB Chap 7; Cody (X)
17. W, Oct 13:
Archetypal Criticism -- CMS: Frye; Le Guin (X); OX “archetype”;
Application: Gelpi (X)
18. M, Oct 18: Reader
Response – TC, Chap 2,17-20, Chap 4, pp 55-69; CMS, Fish; LCB 4;
EKS Response crit (X) OX “Reader-Resp”
19. W, Oct 20: Feminist
Crit 1: TC, Chap 2, 27-9, Chap 8, pp 193-205; CMS: Woolf,
Rich
**Response
to Dickinson Poem due on Friday***
***Five
Summaries Due on Monday***
20. M, Oct 25: Reader
Response Application
21. W, Oct 27:
Feminst Crit 2: CMS: Baym, Showalter, Gilbert and Gubar
Unit
#6 – Psychological Criticisms – Due Wendesday, Oct 27
FALL
BREAK
22. W, Nov 3 : Feminist
Applications: Rich, G&G etc. (X)
Unit
#7 – Feminist Lit Crit – Due Friday, Nov 5
23. M, Nov 8: Poststructuralism:
OX “Post-structuralism”; LCB 6; CMS, Foucault
24. W, Nov 10: Deconstruction
–
Derrida: TC, Chap 2 20-22, Chap 5 91-102; CMS, Derrida intro only.
Application(X)
25. M, Nov 15: New
Historicism – TC rest of Chap 6, 125-38; CMS: Grenblatt intro; LCB
Chap 10
26. W, Nov 17: Cultural
and Post-Colonial –- CMS: Bhabha; LCB, Chap 11
Unit#8
– Post-Structuralist, New Hist, Post-Colonial – due Monday, Nov 22
27. M, Nov 22: Gusset Day
or project reports
Thanksgiving
Break
28. M, Nov 29: Review for Final
**Research
Paper Due***
29. W, Dec 1: Review for Final

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