ENGL 801 &1xbet online casino ;Introduction to Graduate Studies&1xbet online casino ;
ENGL 801 is designed to help you develop the following skills:
Reserve, Online, andVideo Resources: Along with some required reserve reading and one required film (Jordan's The Crying Game), I will refer you to additional resources available on reserve at Hale Library, online, or on video to complement our readings and discussions. Links within the online &1xbet online casino ;Schedule of Classes&1xbet online casino ; will take you to related online resources. I will add and update these resources as the semester progresses; if you locate a site or page which you find valuable, please let me know, and I'll consider adding it to the existing links.
Conferences: I want you to succeed in this course, and I am happy to meet with you about your work and your progress. I encourage you to see me before writing assignments are due, or if you have questions about material we discuss in class. Please feel free to stop by during office hours (M, W 9:00-10:00 a.m.) or contact me by phone or email to arrange a time to meet.
Note: All assigned reading should be completed by the date listed.
[CP]= Class Pack [R]=Reserve
August | M 22 | Introduction to ENGL 801 |
The Profession: What’s at Stake in Literary Studies? | ||
W 24 | Altick, &1xbet online casino ;Vocation&1xbet online casino ; (3-13); Graff, &1xbet online casino ;The Scholar in Society&1xbet online casino ; (343-362); Strausbach, &1xbet online casino ;Eggheads' Naughty Word Games&1xbet online casino ;; Pullum, &1xbet online casino ;It's Your Choice at the MLA&1xbet online casino ;; Fish, &1xbet online casino ;The War on Higher Education&1xbet online casino ; and &1xbet online casino ;Make 'Em Cry&1xbet online casino ; [CP] | |
F 26 | Garber, A Manifesto for Literary Studies: &1xbet online casino ;Asking Literary Questions&1xbet online casino ; (3-14) | |
Close Reading, Ways of Reading | ||
M 29 | Marvell, &1xbet online casino ;To His Coy Mistress&1xbet online casino ; [CP]; Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet online casino ;The Formalist Approach&1xbet online casino ; (90-116, 149-150) and &1xbet online casino ;First Things First: Textual Scholarship, Genres, and Source Study&1xbet online casino ; (15-21, 29-35, 46-49) Response paper (2 pp.) on Marvell due in class |
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W 31 | Marvell, continued; Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet online casino ;Historical and Biographical Approaches&1xbet online casino ; (51-57) and &1xbet online casino ;Moral and Philosophical Approaches&1xbet online casino ; (77-80); Garber, Manifesto: &1xbet online casino ;Historical Correctness: The Use and Abuse of History for Literature&1xbet online casino ; (45-69) | |
September | F 2 | Rossetti, &1xbet online casino ;Goblin Market&1xbet online casino ; [CP] |
M 5 | Labour Day
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W 7 | Rossetti, continued; one of the following chapters from Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet online casino ;The Psychological Approach: Freud&1xbet online casino ; (152-181); &1xbet online casino ;Mythological and Archetypal Approaches&1xbet online casino ; (182-221); &1xbet online casino ;Feminisms and Gender Studies&1xbet online casino ; (222-274); &1xbet online casino ;Cultural Studies&1xbet online casino ; (275-349); &1xbet online casino ;The Play of Meaning(s): Reader-Response Criticism, Dialogics, and Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Including Deconstruction&1xbet online casino ; (350-380) Response paper (2 pp.) on Rossetti and your selected chapter due in class. |
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F 9 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;From Close Reading to Persuasive Argumentation.&1xbet online casino ; Preparation for Paper #1 (4 pp.): Keats, &1xbet online casino ;To Autumn&1xbet online casino ; (Option #1) and Atwood, &1xbet online casino ;Spelling&1xbet online casino ; (Option #2) [CP]; Gibaldi, MLA Handbook: &1xbet online casino ;Thesis Statement&1xbet online casino ; (49-51), &1xbet online casino ;The Mechanics of Writing&1xbet online casino ; (77-130), and &1xbet online casino ;The Format of the Research Paper&1xbet online casino ; (131-138) Reminder: Meet the Track Heads, 3:30 p.m. |
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M 12 | Keats, &1xbet online casino ;To Autumn&1xbet online casino ; [CP] Paper #1 (Option #1) due in class |
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W 14 | Atwood, &1xbet online casino ;Spelling&1xbet online casino ; [CP] Paper #1 (Option #2) due in class |
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F 16 | Shelley, Frankenstein (1-101) | |
M 19 | Frankenstein (103-156); Veeder, &1xbet online casino ;The Women of Frankenstein&1xbet online casino ; (271-273); Mellor, &1xbet online casino ;Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein&1xbet online casino ; (274-286) | |
W 21 | Frankenstein; Guerin (87-89, 141-149, 168-169, 208-209, 249-257, 314-325) | |
F 23 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;MLA International Bibliography and MLA Style.&1xbet online casino ; Gibaldi, MLA Handbook: &1xbet online casino ;Conducting Research&1xbet online casino ; (8-37) and &1xbet online casino ;Documenting Sources&1xbet online casino ; and &1xbet online casino ;MLA Style&1xbet online casino ; (142-144) |
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M 26 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Finding the Critical Imperative&1xbet online casino ; and &1xbet online casino ;Writing an Abstract&1xbet online casino ; Read and identify thesis claim and sub-claims of Rose, &1xbet online casino ;Custody Battles: Reproducing Knowledge about Frankenstein&1xbet online casino ; [CP] |
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Textual Scholarship and Scholarly Editing | ||
W 28 | Textual editing of Frankenstein: Joseph, &1xbet online casino ;The Composition of Frankenstein&1xbet online casino ; (157-160); Mellor, &1xbet online casino ;Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach&1xbet online casino ; (160-166); Shelley, &1xbet online casino ;Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition&1xbet online casino ; (169-173) Abstract of Zonana, &1xbet online casino ;'They Will Prove the Truth of My Tale': Safie's Letters as the Feminist Core of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein&1xbet online casino ; (170-184) [CP] due in class |
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F 30 | Nash, &1xbet online casino ;The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon&1xbet online casino ; (1-15); Bruccoli, &1xbet online casino ;What Bowers Wrought: An Assessment of the Center for Editions of American Authors&1xbet online casino ; (237-244); McGann, &1xbet online casino ;Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World&1xbet online casino ; (245-260) [CP] | |
October | M 3 | Fall Break |
W 5 | Guest Speakers: Anne Phillips and Greg Eiselein, Norton Critical Edition of Little Women; brief textual studies exercise due in class. | |
F 7 | Guest Speaker: Philip Nel, The Annotated Cat Seuss, The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back [R]; brief annotation exercise due in class. |
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Boundary Crossings (1): Genre | ||
M 10 | Children's Literature, Cross-Reading, and Audience: Clark, &1xbet online casino ;Kiddie Lit in Academe&1xbet online casino ; (149-157); Byatt, &1xbet online casino ;Harry Potter and the Childish Adult&1xbet online casino ;; Green, &1xbet online casino ;Letter to the Editor&1xbet online casino ;; Donnelly, &1xbet online casino ;Paperback Writer&1xbet online casino ;; and Pullman, &1xbet online casino ;Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech&1xbet online casino ; [CP] | |
W 12 | Cobley, &1xbet online casino ;Genre&1xbet online casino ;; Murfin, &1xbet online casino ;Genre&1xbet online casino ;; Abrams, &1xbet online casino ;Genre&1xbet online casino ;; Goldman, from On Drama: Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self (1-10) | |
F 14 | Dramatic Poetry: Frost, &1xbet online casino ;Home Burial&1xbet online casino ; (792-4); &1xbet online casino ;Two Complimentary Critical Readings: Poirier and Kearns&1xbet online casino ; (1007-9) [CP] Response on Frost (2 pp.) due in class |
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M 17 | Sanders, &1xbet online casino ;Frost's North of Boston, Its Language, Its People, and Its Poet&1xbet online casino ;; Vogt, &1xbet online casino ;Narrative and Drama in the Lyric: Robert Frost's Strategic Withdrawal&1xbet online casino ;; Bell, &1xbet online casino ;Robert Frost and the Nature of Narrative&1xbet online casino ; [CP] Notes | |
W 19 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Print and Online Resources for Scholarly Research&1xbet online casino ; Gibaldi, &1xbet online casino ;Research and Writing&1xbet online casino ; (1-63) and &1xbet online casino ;Plagiarism&1xbet online casino ; (65-75) Paragraph-length description of selected research topic due in class. |
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F 21 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Interventions: Identifying Your Critical Imperative&1xbet online casino ; List of five scholarly resources (print or online, formatted in MLA style) for your proposed topic due in class. Notes |
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M 24 | Redefining Realism: Johnson, &1xbet online casino ;Rambler No. 4&1xbet online casino ;; Woolf, &1xbet online casino ;Modern Fiction&1xbet online casino ; [CP] Notes | |
W 26 | Poetic Prose: Woolf, &1xbet online casino ;Kew Gardens&1xbet online casino ; [CP] | |
F 28 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Refining Your Focus and Developing Your Thesis Claim&1xbet online casino ; Abstract of and response to one scholarly article for your paper due in class |
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Su 30 | Showing of Neil Jordan's The Crying Game | |
M 31 | Political Thriller or Old-Fashioned Love Story?: Jordan, The Crying Game; Jordan, &1xbet online casino ;Introduction to The Crying Game&1xbet online casino ; and Giles, from The Crying Game [CP] | |
November | T 1 | Draft Abstract and Annotated Bibliography for Paper #2 due by 5 p.m. to my mailbox in ECS 119. |
W 2 | The Crying Game, continued; Chumo, &1xbet online casino ;The Crying Game, Hitchcockian Romance, and the Quest for Identity&1xbet online casino ;; Daly, &1xbet online casino ;Post-Colonial Carnival (?): Neil Jordan's The Crying Game&1xbet online casino ;; Wynne, &1xbet online casino ;Crossing the Border: The Post-Colonial Carnival in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game&1xbet online casino ;[CP] | |
F 4 | No class -- read ahead and work on Paper #2. | |
Boundary Crossings (2): Literary Periods, Anthologies, and the Canon | ||
M 7 | Rhys, Wide Saragasso Sea (9-64) Notes | |
W 9 | Wide Sargasso Sea (64-112) | |
F 11 | Wide Sargasso Sea; excerpts from Bronte's Jane Eyre (119-132 ); excerpts from Rhys' letters, unpublished mss. & facsimile of mss. (135-149, 155-156); Thorpe, &1xbet online casino ;'The Other Side': Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre&1xbet online casino ; (173-181); and Rody, &1xbet online casino ;Burning Down the House...&1xbet online casino ; (217-225) | |
M 14 | Emery, &1xbet online casino ;Modernist Crosscurrents&1xbet online casino ; (161-173); Ramchand, &1xbet online casino ;The Place of Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet online casino ;(181-187); Drake, &1xbet online casino ;Race and Carribean Culture as Thematics of Liberation in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet online casino ; (193-206); and Erwin, &1xbet online casino ;History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet online casino ; (207-216) Response on critical readings (2 pp.) due in class. |
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W 16 | Continue discussion of critical essays on Wide Sargasso Sea; bring working thesis claim for Paper #2 to class. | |
F 18 | Besserman, &1xbet online casino ;The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives&1xbet online casino ; (3-27) and one of the following three chapters from Besserman: Griffin, &1xbet online casino ;A Critique of Romantic Periodization&1xbet online casino ; (133-146); Daleksi, &1xbet online casino ;Thomas Hardy: A Victorian Modernist?&1xbet online casino ; (179-195), and Vendler, &1xbet online casino ;Periodizing Modern American Poetry&1xbet online casino ; (233-244) Notes | |
M 21 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Outlining and Drafting&1xbet online casino ; Writing Workshop: Bring two copies of your introduction with your thesis, your outline, and your &1xbet online casino ;Works Cited&1xbet online casino ; to class. Notes |
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W 23 | No Class -- | |
F 25 | Thanksgiving Break | |
M 28 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Revising&1xbet online casino ; Writing Workshop: Bring two copies of your full paper and your &1xbet online casino ;Works Cited&1xbet online casino ; to class. Notes |
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T 29 | Paper #2 (10-12 pp.) and revised abstract due by 5 p.m. to my mailbox in ECS 119. | |
W 30 | &1xbet online casino ;Roundtable: Reviews of The Longman Anthology of British Literature and The Norton Anthology of English Literature&1xbet online casino ; (195-214) [CP] | |
Speech Acts | ||
December | F 2 | Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online casino ;Preparing for a Conference Presentation&1xbet online casino ; |
M 5 | Panel Presentation #1 Panel 1 Abstracts | |
W 7 | Panel Presentation #2 Panel 2 Abstracts | |
F 9 | Reflections on ENGL 801 and Literary Studies |