Day-by Day Linked 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: Study Questions | Glossary for Day 2 | General Reading Guide for Historical Articles | Giant WAWA Chart

First chap of TC
Criticism Def from Abrams
Abrams Chart
LCB Chap 1

3. W, Aug 25: Classical Mimetic Approach -- Plato

Abyss Notes on Plato
CMS: Republic; The Ion
Allegory of Cave
Plato Links

Unit #1—Critical Issues, Plato-- Due Friday, August 27

4. M, Aug 30: Mimetic -> Rhetorical -- Aristotle:

Abyss Notes on Aristotle
CMS: Poetics.
“Aristotelian Miss Moppet”
LCB on Aristotle
Aristotle Links

5. W, Sep 1: Classical Rhetorical Approaches – Horace

CMS: Longinus

and Horace,

OX “sublime”

LCB

Abyss Notes for Horace
Abyss Notes for Longinus | Longinus WAWA
Links for Horace
Links for Longinus
Hogwarts WAWA Chart (log in; then choose lit crit WAWA chart)

6. M, Sep 6: Longinus, Neo-Platonism, and Dante

CMS: Dante, Letter to Con Grande; OXford: typology, allegory
OX “neo-plat”
LCB
Abyss Notes for Dante | WAWA Notes on Dante
Links for Neoplatonism
Links for Dante

7. W, Sep 8: Neoplatonism, Sidney: "An Apology for Poetry (1595) (K 101-135)

Abyss Notes for Sidney | WAWA Notes on Sidney
Links for Sidney

8. M, Sep 13: The Eighteenth Century: Pope and Johnson:

Oxford "Neo-Classicism"
CMS, Pope, Essay on Crit
Abyss Notes for Pope | Pope WAWA
Links for Pope
Johnson, Preface to Sksp; LCB
Abyss Notes for Johnson | Johnson WAWA
Links for Johnson

9. W, Sep 15 : Shift to Expressive-- Excerpts from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley:

Romanticism, Entry in Oxford Lit Terms
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) pp. 240-44, 247-9, 253-4. (9 pp)
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817), pp. 258 (willing suspension of disbelief), 261-2 (def of a poem and of poet), 263 (def of imagination) (4 pp.)
Keats, Letters (1817-18), 279-top of 281 (Adam’s dream), 283 (negative capability), 285 bottom- 286 (poetical character) (5 pp.)
Shelley, Defence of Poetry, 287-90 (reason vs. imagination, def and origins of poetry), 294 (P 13 moral efficacy), bottom of 305-309 (imagination sup to reason, poets greatest of men) (9 pp.)

Be sure to read all headnotes

Abyss Notes for Romantics (WW, Coleridge, Keats) | Romantic WAWA Chart

Links for Romanticim | Wordsworth, | Coleridge | Keats

Abyss Notes for Shelley

Links for Shelley

Unit#2 – Rhetorical Criticism (Aristotle through Johnson)-- Due Friday, Sept 17

10. M, Sep 20: Midterm Review

11. W, Sep 22: Intro to Research Paper Project TC, Chap 9

Intro to Literary Research Assignmnet

***Midterm Take-home Due Friday, Sept 24***

Part II: Modern Dances
12. M, Sep 27: Early Modern Crit: Arnold and Eliot

CSM: Arnold, "A Study of Poetry"(1880) 333-53
Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) 404-10.
Abyss Notes for Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" | Arnold WAWA
Links for Arnold
Abyss Notes for T.S. Eliot's "Tradition" | Eliot WAWA
Links for T.S. Eliot

13. W, Sep 29: New Criticism 1: Theory

TC Chap 2 on NC, pp 14-17, Chap 3, pp 32-43;
OX, New Crit”;
LCB Chap 3
Links for New Criticism | Our New Crit WAWA

***Proposal and Initial Reference Bibliography Due Monday, Oct 4****

14. M, Oct 4: New Criticism Practice: Brooks, "The Language of Paradox"

Abyss Notes for Brooks| Notes| Canonization
Links for Brooks

Go get Xerox Book at Campus Copy. Need to read essays for class on Wednesday.
15. W, Oct 6: New Criticism vs Historical/ Biographical Criticism: Application:

TC Chap 6 1st part.
“My Life Had Stood” (X) Poem with Notes from Critics
Taggard (X)
Anderson (X)
Weisbach (X)
Reading Criticism
Three Summaries on Dickinson

Unit #3 – Modern Criticism (5 pt unit) – Due Monday, Oct 11 (Last day to drop -->Friday, Oct 8)

16. M, Oct 11: Psychological Criticism & Application:

TC Chap 2, 29-9, Chap 7, 167-176
Maps of the Mind on Freud (X)
Cody (X)
LCB Chap 7
Links on Psychoanalytic Crit and Frued

17. W, Oct 13: Archetypal Criticism -- Links

OX “archetype”
CMS: Frye
Maps of the Mind on Jung (X)
Le Guin (X)
Application: Gelpi (X)
Links on Archetypal Crit, Jung, Frye, and Ursula LeGuin

18. M, Oct 18: Reader Response –

TC, Chap 2,17-20, Chap 4, pp 55-69;
OX “Reader-Resp”
EKS on Response crit ( web)
CMS, Fish "Is There a Text in This Class?" pp. 573-85;
Supplemental: LCB 4
Links on Reader Response Crit and Fish

19. W, Oct 20: Feminist Crit 1:

TC, Chap 2, 27-9, Chap 8, pp 193-205
CMS: Woolf, "Shakespeare's Sister" from A Room of One's Own , pp. 411-421
Abyss Notes on ROO (Do only Chap 3)
CMS, Rich, "When We Dead Awaken" pp. 511-524.
Links on Feminist Criticism | Woolf | Rich

**Response to Dickinson Poem due on Friday*** One pt.

How to Do a Response

***Five Summaries Due on Monday***

20. M, Oct 25: Feminist Crit 2: Class Notes/ Study Guide

CMS: Baym, "Melodrama of Beset Manhood" pp. 586-602
Gilbert and Gubar, "Tradition and the Female Talent" pp. 683-95
CM: Showalter, "Representing Ophelia" pp. 615-29
Links on Feminist Critics

21. W, Oct 27: Feminist Applications:

Rich, Adrienne. "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson" (1975)(X)
Gilbert Sandra and Susan Gubar. Excerpt on "MLHSLG" from The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)(X)
Vivan Pollak, excerpt from Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender (1984) (X)
Additional feminist interpretations of MLHSLG
Notes on Feminist Interpretations
Dickinson Links

Unit #4– Psychological Criticisms (5 pt unit) – Due Firday, Oct 29

FALL BREAKGo Forth and Vote

22. W, Nov 3 : Reader Response Application
Link to Dickinson poem wi chart of responses
5 Summaries due Monday, Nov 8. Directions and Samples for 5 summaries