Overview Syllabus

TC=Texts & Contexts by Lynn

CMS= Criticism: Major Statements by Kaplan

OX= Oxford Dict Lit Terms

LCB= Literary Criticism by Bressler (optional)

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