August 22rd Introduction, recurring patterns of criticism
August 24th structure, form and theme: Aristotle, "Poetics," NA 90-112
August 29th aesthetics: Kant, from The Critique of Judgment, NA 499-535
August 31st early feminism: Pizan, NA 263-270; Wollstonecraft, NA 582-593 + handout
September 5th romantic aesthetics: Wordsworth, NA 645-665; Coleridge, NA 674-682
September 7th romantic aesthetics: Hegel, NA 626-644
September 12th historical approaches: Marx, NA 759-788
September 14th fiction, realism: Henry James, "The Art of Fiction," NA 851-89; Gyorgy Lukacs, "Realism in the Balance" NA 1030-1040, 1046-58
September 19th psychological approaches: Freud, NA 913-952
September 21st linguistics: Saussure,NA 856-977
September 26th structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum, 1058-1080, Levi-Strauss, NA 1415-1427
September 28th Anglo-American poetics: Cleanth Brooks, NA 1350-1371, Wimsatt and Beardsley, NA 1374-1387
October 3rd Marxists: Althusser NA 1476-1509
October 5th feminism: Woolf, NA 1017-1029; Gilbert and Gubar, NA 2021-2035, Susan Bordo, NA 2360-2376
October 10th race theory: Houston Baker, NA 2223-240; Barbara Christian, NA 225-2266; bell hooks, NA 2475-2484
October 12th Bakhtin, NA 1186-1219
Abstract for first paper due.
October 17th historicism and cultural studies: Foucault, NA 1615-1647
October 19th Andalzua NA 2106-2125
First paper due.
October 24th Peter Brooks, handout; Hayden White, NA 1709-1728
October 26th Poulet, NA 1317-1333; Sartre, NA 1333-1349; Frye 1442-1457
October 31st Heidegger, NA 1118-1134; Derrida, NA 1815-1830
November 2nd Late Twentieth-Century Marxists: Eagleton, NA2240-2250; Jameson NA 1960-1974
November 7th Reader response: Jauss, NA 1547-64
November 9th Iser, NA 1670-81; Tompkins, NA 2126-42
November 14th post-colonial theory: Fanon, handout; Homi Bhaba, NA 377-2397
November 16th Said, handout from Culture and Imperialism
November 28th gay and lesbian studies: Eve Sedgwick, NA 2432-2433; Bonnie Zimmerman, NA 2338-2359; Butler, NA 2485-2501
November 30th rhetorical and psychological approaches: De Man, NA 1509-1526; Lacan, "The Mirror Stage," NA 1278-90; Laura Mulvey, NA 2179-92
December 5th postmodernism and technology, hypertext: Lyotard, NA 1609-1614; Baudrillard, NA 1729-40; Haraway, NA 2266-98
December 7th ethics, 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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