1. W, Aug 18: Intro to Class:Policy Statement*, Syllabus*

2. W, Jan 17: 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

• Abyss Notes on Plato
• Republic -- Beds &; The Ion Allegory of Cave 
• Plato Links

4. W, Jan 24 : Mimetic -> Rhetorical -- Aristotle:

• Abyss Notes on Aristotle
• Excerpts from The Poetics. “
• Aristotelian Miss Moppet”  LCB on Aristotle
• Aristotle Links

Horace, "The Art of Poetry"

• Abyss Notes for Horace
• Links for Horace
• WAWA Chart   

6. W, Jan 31: Neo-Platonism, Dante, and Sidney

• Oxford: typology, allegory, “neo-plat”
• Links for Neoplatonism
• Dante,  Letter to Can Grande;
• Abyss Notes for Dante 
• Links for Dante
• Excerpt From Sir Philip Sidney, "An Apology for Poetry"  (1595)
• Bressler on Dante and Sidney
• Abyss Notes for  Sidney
• Links for Sidney
• WAWA Chart  

• Romanticism, Entry in Oxford Lit Terms
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• Excerpt from Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) pp. 240-44, 247-9, 253-4.  (9 pp) 
• Bressler on Wordsworth
• Excerpt fromColeridge, 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, Excerpts from 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.)

• Abyss Notes for Romantics (WW, Coleridge, Keats)

Links for Romanticim | Wordsworth, | Coleridge | Keats
• Abyss Notes for Shelley

Links for Shelley

8. W, Feb 7: Moving Towards Objective -- Matthew Arnold

• Excerpt from Arnold, "A Study of Poetry"(1880)
• Bressler on Arnold
• . Abyss Notes for Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" 
•   Links for Arnold

9. M, Feb 12: Modernism: T.S. Eliot

• Oxford on Modernism
• Eliot, ”Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) Text for annotating 
•  Bressler on Eliot 
• Abyss Notes on "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
  

Unit#2 – Early Modern Crit (Dante through Eliot) – Due Friday, Feb 16

10. W, Feb 14: Midterm Review

• Big WAWA Chart 
• Midterm Core List
• Miderterm list of terms
  
• Midterm Essay Questions

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• TC, Lynn, Chap 9: Investigating the Work

• Intro to Literary Research Assignment
• Literary Research Project (these explanations are pretty up-to-date, except that most people do not do the web option, but instead do a traditonal paper.  Talk to me if you really want to do the web project.  Also dates and sometimes weights of assignmnets have not been updated.  You will receive handouts in class on Monday which give all of the dates for this smester)
• Doing Literary Research: How to Build Your Bibliography
• Dickinson Samples (Each part of the project illustrated for hypothetical paper on "My life had stood a loaded gun")
  

Part II:  Modern Dances
12.  W, Feb 21, Historical/ Biographical Criticism: Application:

• TC Chap 6  1st part. 
• “My Life Had Stood” (X)  

•  Taggard (X)  

13. M,Feb 26 : New Criticism 1: Theory

• TC Chap 2 on NC, pp 14-17, Chap 3, pp 32-43; 
• OX, on "New Crit”; 
• Bressler, Chap 3
• Links for New Criticism | 

14.  W, Feb 28: New Criticism Practice:  

• Brooks, "The Language of Paradox"

• Abyss Notes for Brooks| Notes| Canonization
• Links for Brooks

15. M, March 5: New Criticism Dickinson Application

• Short Form for Reading Criticism 
• Taggart  Notes
  
• Anderson (BB)   Anderson Notes
• Weisbach (BB) 
• Three Summaries on Dickinson
• Poem with Notes from Taggard, Johnson, Anderson, and Weisbach
  

16. W, March 7: Psychological Criticism & Application:

• TC Chap 2, 28-31, Chap 7, 182-93
•  Maps of the Mind on Freud
• Cody 
• Links on Psychoanalytic Crit and Frued

Unit #3 – Modern Criticism (5 pt unit) – Due Friday, March 9)

• OX “archetype” 
• Maps of the Mind on Jung
•  Le Guin, "The Child and the Shadow"
• Dickinson Application:  Gelpi (X)
• Links on Archetypal Crit, Jung, Frye, and Ursula LeGuin

• Whomsely on Campbell
• Campbell Charts
• Hero's Quest
• Versions of the Quest
• Female Hero
• Comparision of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz wiht Luke in Star Wars
 

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SPRING BREAK  

19. M, March 26: Reader-Response Crit 

• EKS on  Response crit ( web) 
•   Fish "Is There a Text in This Class?" pp. 573-85; Supplemental: LCB 4

Links on Reader Response Crit and Fish

• How to Do a Response

20. W, March 28: Reader Response Application

Link to Dickinson poem wi chart of responses

***Five Summaries Due on Monday, April 2***     

Directions and Samples for 5 summaries 

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)
• Links on Feminist Criticism  | Woolf  |  Rich

22. W, April 4 : Feminist Crit 2:  Class Notes/ Study Guide

• Rich, "When We Dead Awaken" pp. 511-524
• Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood" 
• Links on Feminist Critics |  Rich
  

Unit #4– Psychological & Reader-Response Criticisms 

23.M, April 9: 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)
• ( Vivan Pollak, excerpt from Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender (1984)
•  ( Additional feminist interpretations of MLHSLG 
• Notes on Feminist Interpretations
• Dickinson Links  | Dickinson Homestead

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• OX “Post-structuralism”
  
• CMS, Foucault "What is an Author"
• LCB 6
Links on Poststructuralism

Unit #5 – Feminist Lit Crit – Due Friday, Nov 12

25.M, April 16: Deconstruction –

• TC, Lynn,  TC, Chap 2 20-22, Chap 5 97-112; 
• , Derrida intro only  
• Class Notes on PS & DC
  
• Daring to Derrida | A Similar explanation
Links on Deconstruction & Derrida

• TC rest of Chap 6,  on Cultural Studies, New Historicism, History as Text138-45
• Grenblatt intro.  "Shakespeare and the Exorcists"
• Bressler Chap 1---Cultural Politics or New Historicism
Link to Class Notes on New Historicism  | WAWAChart
Links on New Historicism

27. M, April 23 : Post-Colonial Cultural Studies–-

•  TC on PoCo: 148-54
•  Rivkin and Ryan "English without Shadows" 
• Bressler, Chap 11-- Cultural Studies

**Research Paper Due***
28. W, Apr 25: Review for Final

• Final Exam
• Core List
• WAWA Chart Moderns  | Ancients
  

Unit#6– Feminist Post-Structuralist, New Hist, Post-Colonial – due Monday, Nov 29 (Unit points=6)