| March 14 |
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Presentation + Introduction to Literary Criticism |
Teacher |
| 21 |
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Historical Criticism
Hirsch: “Objective Interpretation”
Watson: “Are Poems Historical Acts?”
Yachnin: “Shakespeare and the Idea of Obedience” |
Pedro
Rita
Denise |
| 28 |
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Formal Criticism
Brooks: “Irony as a Principle of Structure”
Wimsatt: “The Structure of the Concrete Universal”
McDonald: “Reading The Tempest” |
Irene
Paula
Teacher |
| Apr 4 |
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Reader-Response Criticism
Reflexive Paper 1 due
Poulet: from Phenomenology of Reading
Rosenblatt: “The Quest for ‘The Poem Itself’”
Meisenhelder: “Wordsworth’s Informed Reader” |
Pedro
Fernanda
Rita |
| 11 |
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Mimetic Criticism
Alter: “Character and Connection with Reality”
Paris: “The Uses of Psychology”
Paris: The Tempest |
Paula
Fernanda
Rita |
| 18 |
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Intertextual Criticism
Midterm Take-home Exam handed out
Frye: “The Critical Path”
Rosmarin: “Defining a Theory of Genre”
Frye: “Shakespeare’s The Tempest" |
Denise
Irene
Rita |
| 25 |
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Poststructural Criticism
Man: “Semiology and Rhetoric”
Fish: “What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?”
Hartman: “‘Timely Utterance’ Once More” |
Paula
Pedro
Fernanda |
| May 9 |
|
Historical Criticism
Midterm Take-home Exam due
Eagleton: “Literature and History”
Greenblatt: “Culture”
Brown: “‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge ...’” |
Denise
Rita
Irene |
| 16 |
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Feminist Criticism
Showalter: “Toward a Feminist Poetics”
Gilbert & Gubar: from The Madwoman in the Attic
Tyson: “... next they’ll throw everything overboard ...” |
Rita
Denise
Fernanda |
| 23 |
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Queer Theory, Gay/Lesbian Studies
Reflexive Paper 2 due
Sedgwick: from Between Men
Lauretis: “The Technology of Gender”
Tyson: “Will the Real Nick Carraway ...” |
Denise
Irene
Paula |
| 30 |
|
Postcolonialist Criticism
Said: “The World, the Text, and the Critic”
Appiah: “Topologies of Nativism”
Tyson: “The Colony Within” |
Irene
Fernanda
Pedro |
| June 6 |
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Cultural Studies
Radway: “Reading the Romance”
Hall: “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology’”
Tyson: “The Discourse of the Self-Made Man” |
Denise
Pedro
Paula |
| 13 |
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After Theory
Reflexive Paper 3 due
Todorov: "Traveling through American Criticism"
Ellis: "Is Theory to Blame?"
Vickers: "Masters and Demons" |
Pedro
Paula
Fernanda |
| 20 |
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After Theory
Good: "Presentism: POMO, POCO, POSTO"
Dowling: "Gender Fallacy"
Perloff: "Crisis in the Humanities?" |
Denise
Irene
Rita
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| 27 |
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Summing-up + Students’ projects |
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