| March 3 |
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Presentation + Introduction to Literary Criticism |
Teacher |
| 10 |
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Historical Criticism
Hirsch: “Objective Interpretation”
Watson: “Are Poems Historical Acts?”
Yachnin: “Shakespeare and the Idea of Obedience” |
Felipe
Helenice
Milton
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| 17 |
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Formal Criticism
Brooks: “Irony as a Principle of Structure”
Wimsatt: “The Structure of the Concrete Universal”
McDonald: “Reading The Tempest” |
Eduardo
Glória
Fabrício
|
| 24 |
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Reader-Response Criticism
Poulet: from Phenomenology of Reading
Rosenblatt: “The Quest for ‘The Poem Itself’”
Meisenhelder: “Wordsworth’s Informed Reader” |
Ma. Luíza
Paulo
Ricardo
|
| 31 |
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Mimetic Criticism
Alter: “Character and Connection with Reality”
Paris: “The Uses of Psychology”
Paris: The Tempest |
Ricardo
Julia
Paulo
|
| Apr 7 |
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Intertextual Criticism
Reflexive Paper 1 due
Frye: “The Critical Path”
Rosmarin: “Defining a Theory of Genre”
Frye: “Shakespeare’s The Tempest" |
Milton
Eduardo
Alita
|
| 14 |
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Poststructural Criticism
Midterm Take-home Exam handed out
Man: “Semiology and Rhetoric”
Fish: “What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?”
Hartman: “‘Timely Utterance’ Once More” |
Juliana
Felipe
Glória
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| May 5 |
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Historical Criticism
Eagleton: “Literature and History”
Greenblatt: “Culture”
Brown: “‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge ...’” |
Julia
Ricardo
Fabrício
|
| 12 |
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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 ...” |
Helenice
Ma. Luíza
Juliana
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| 19 |
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Queer Theory, Gay/Lesbian Studies
Midterm Take-home Exam due
Sedgwick: from Between Men
Lauretis: “The Technology of Gender”
Tyson: “Will the Real Nick Carraway ...” |
Eduardo
Ma. Luíza
Glória
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| 26 |
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Postcolonialist Criticism
Said: “The World, the Text, and the Critic”
Appiah: “Topologies of Nativism”
Tyson: “The Colony Within” |
Helenice
Milton
Paulo
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| June 2 |
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Cultural Studies
Radway: “Reading the Romance”
Hall: “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology’”
Tyson: “The Discourse of the Self-Made Man” |
Ma. Luíza
Julia
Fabrício
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| 9 |
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After Theory
Todorov: "Traveling through American Criticism"
Ellis: "Is Theory to Blame?"
Vickers: "Masters and Demons" |
Felipe
Alita
Paulo
|
| 16 |
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After Theory
Reflexive Paper 2 due
Good: "Presentism"
Dowling: "Gender Fallacy"
Perloff: "Crisis in the Humanities?" |
Juliana
Alita
Alita?
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| 23 |
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Summing-up + Students’ projects |
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