August 23rd Introduction, recurring patterns of criticism
August 25th structure, form and theme: Aristotle, "Poetics," NA 90-112
August 30th aesthetics: Kant, from The Critique of Judgment, NA 499-535
September 1st early feminism: Pisan, NA 263-270; Wollstonecraft, NA 582-593 + handout
September 6th nineteenth-century humanism: Arnold, NA 802-825; Pater, NA 833-41
September 8th Nietzsche NA 870-895
September 13th historical approaches: Marx, NA 759-788
September 15th applications of Marxism: Williams, NA 1565-75; Eagleton, NA 2243-49; Bourdieu, NA 1806-14
September 20th psychological approaches: Freud, NA 913-952
September 22nd tradition and formalism: T. S. Eliot, NA 1088-1105; Cleanth Brooks, NA 1350-71
September 27th structuralism and narratology: Todorov, NA 2097-2105; Bakhtin, NA 1186-1219
September 29th Peter Brooks, handout; Paula Gunn Allen, NA 2106-2125
October 4th Hayden White, NA 1709-1728
October 6th feminism: Woolf, NA 1017-1029; Cixous, NA 2035-2055; Kolodny, NA 2143-2164
October 11th Hughes, NA 1311-1316; Gates NA 2421-31; bell hooks, NA 2475-2484
October 13th Andalzua, NA 2208-2222; Vizenor, NA 1975
Abstract for first paper due.
October 18th historicism and cultural studies: Foucault, NA 1615-1647
October 20th Benjamin, NA 1163-85; Mulvey, NA 279-92
First paper due.
October 25th gay and lesbian studies: Rich, NA 1759-1780; Barbara Smith, NA 2299-2315; Butler, NA 2485-2501
October 27th psychological approaches: Jung, 987-1003; Lacan, 1278-1310
November 1st Lacan; Kristeva, NA 2165-79
November 3rd reader-response theory: Jauss, NA 1547-64; Iser, NA 1670-81
November 8th Barthes, NA 1457-75; Fish, NA 2067; Tompkins, NA 2126-42
November 10th post-colonial theory: Fanon, handout; Spivak, NA 2193-2207
November 15th Ngugi wa Thiongo, NA 2089-2096; Chinua Achebe, NA 1781-1793
November 17th Said, handout from Culture and Imperialism
November 29th literature and ethics: Booth, handout
December 1st postmodernism: Lyotard, NA 1609-1614; Baudrillard, NA 1729-40; Deleuze and Guattari, NA 1601-1608
December 6th technology, hypertext: Haraway, NA 2266-98; Moulthrop, NA 2502-2524
December 8th ecocriticism, handout from Carolyn Merchant
December 13th: final essay (take-home exam) due; students will summarize the contents of their papers in class.
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