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TUESDAY

THURSDAY

1

08/24 Bennett & Royle, Literature, Criticism, and Theory, Chs. 1-3, the beginning; readers and reading; the author (LCT)

08/26 LCT 4-6, the text and the world; the uncanny; monuments [assigned reading to be completed before each class meeting]

2

08/31 Bertens, Literary Theory: The Basics (LTB), Chs. 1-2, reading for meaning: practical criticism and new criticism; reading for form I: formalism and early structuralism, 1914-1960

09/02 LTB 3, reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950-1975

3

09/07 LTB 4, political reading: the 1970s and 1980s

09/09 LCT 7-9, narrative; character; voice

4

09/14 James, The Turn of the Screw (TS), Chs. 1-4; LCT 10-11, figures and tropes; creative writing

09/16 TS 5-12

5

09/21 TS 13-24

09/23 ìA Critical History of The Turn of the Screwî (TS pp.189-214); LCT 12-13, laughter; the tragic; Explication due on The Turn of the Screw

6

09/28 Reader-Response Criticism and TS—Booth (TS 223-53); LCT 14-16, history; me; ghosts

09/30 Psychoanalytic Criticism and TS—Renner (TS 254-89); Group 6 presentation

7

10/05 Gender Criticism and TS—Walton; Marxist Criticism and TS—Robbins (TS 290-346);Group 2 presentation

10/07 Combining Perspectives on TS—Teahan (TS 347-63); LCT 17-18, moving pictures; sexual difference

8

10/12 LTB 5, the poststructuralist revolution: Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism; Thesis-Seeking/Problem-Posing Exploratory Essay due

10/14 LTB 6, poststructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, and French feminism; LCT 19-20, god; ideology; Group 5 presentation

9

10/19 Bee Season pp.1-80; LTB 7, literature and culture: the new historicism and cultural materialism

10/21 Bee Season 80-150; LCT 21, desire

10

10/26 Bee Season 50-220; LTB 8, postcolonial criticism and theory; LCT 22-23, queer; suspense; Group 4 presentation

10/28 Bee Season 220-74; LCT 24, racial difference

11

11/02 Middlesex pp. 3-76; LTB 9, sexuality, literature, and culture; Critical Response due on Bee Season

11/04 Middlesex 79-165; LCT 25, the colony

12

11/09 Middlesex 166-306; LCT 26, mutant

11/11 Middlesex 307-97; LCT 27, the performative; Group 3 presentation

13

11/16 Middlesex 401-529; LCT 28, secrets

11/18 Critical Response due on Middlesex; LCT 29, the postmodern; Group 1 presentation

15

11/30 LCT 30-31, pleasure; war; Freeman, "The Revolt of 'Mother'"; rcommended: James's "In the Cage."

12/02 LCT 32, the end;Wideman, "Weight"; recommended: Wharton, "The Other Two."

16

12/07 Review/share ideas and questions

12/09 Term Essay due

17

12/17 Final meeting 1-3 p.m.