ENGL 801 &1xbet online sports betting ;Introduction to Graduate Studies&1xbet online sports betting ;

Fall 2006 ~ MWF, 10:30-11:20 a.m.
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Schedule of Classes | WebResources | Bulletin Board

Professor Karin Westman
106 English/ Counseling Services; 532-2171
Office Hours: M, W 9:00-10:00 a.m. and by app't
westmank@ksu.edu

Required Texts
Shelley, Frankenstein. Norton Critical Edition.
Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea. Norton Critical Edition.
Garber, A Manifesto for Literary Studies (2003)
Guerin et. al., A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, 5th Ed.(2005)
Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet online sports betting ;They Say / I Say&1xbet online sports betting ;: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (2006)
Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003)
Class Pack for ENGL 801. (Available at Eisenhower Copy Center.)


Course Description
As the catalog explains, ENGL 801 provides a foundation for the M.A. in English, serving as an intensive introduction to &1xbet online sports betting ;the methods and aims of advanced-level research and scholarship in language and literature.&1xbet online sports betting ; We will read and talk about literary periods, literary genres, current conversations in English studies, and various kinds of texts.


Course Objectives

ENGL 801 is designed to help you develop the following skills:


Class Participation: Given the learning outcomes for ENGL 801, this class will foreground discussion. Class participation is therefore expected and will count for 20% of your final grade. This portion of your grade includes your contributions to our discussions in class (in large and small groups) and to our discussions on the Electronic Bulletin Board (further information below). Your goal is to be an active presence in the class: you should complete the reading assigned for each class session, think carefully about what you have read, and be ready to share your ideas -- in class and online.

Electronic Bulletin Board: Each week, each student is required to post at least one paragraph-length comment about the materials we're reading and discussing in class. I will read these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of your comments, their ability to foster discussion among your classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to your classmates' comments in class and on the board. I'll provide some question prompts as I follow these conversations, and I may also participate, but I see the bulletin board primarily as a way for you to raise issues we haven't addressed -- or addressed fully or to your satisfaction -- during our regular class meetings. Your postings do not need to be long, but they do need to be substantive: they must be long enough to convey clearly the problem you are taking up and your point of view, connecting your comment to others' comments whenever possible. I will offer models of successful comments early in the semester.

To post to the bulletin board, follow these directions:
  1. Go to my homepage at http://www.ksu.edu/english/westmank/ and click on our course (ENGL 801).
  2. From the course web page, click on Bulletin Board.
  3. A window will pop up that asks for your user name. Type: engl801 (Be sure to use lower-case letters, since the software is case-sensitive.)
  4. Click into the password box and type the password I've distributed in class.
  5. You should see all the messages posted to date and the newest ones first. (If not, click on &1xbet online sports betting ;Preferences&1xbet online sports betting ; and set the options to &1xbet online sports betting ;12 months&1xbet online sports betting ; and &1xbet online sports betting ;Mixed Threaded, Reversed.&1xbet online sports betting ; Click on the button that says &1xbet online sports betting ;View Message Index.&1xbet online sports betting ; You should be able to see all the messages posted to the threaded bulletin board.)
  6. To post, you can choose to &1xbet online sports betting ;reply&1xbet online sports betting ; to a message you are viewing or you can &1xbet online sports betting ;post a new message.&1xbet online sports betting ;
  7. I encourage you to select &1xbet online sports betting ;reply,&1xbet online sports betting ; so you can engage directly in the conversation and your message can &1xbet online sports betting ;thread&1xbet online sports betting ; beneath the one you're responding to. I also encourage you to change the subject line so it reflects the content of your message. Whether you &1xbet online sports betting ;reply&1xbet online sports betting ; or &1xbet online sports betting ;post a new message,&1xbet online sports betting ; you will have to enter your name, your email address, and the subject of the message. You can preview your message before sending it; then, click &1xbet online sports betting ;post message.&1xbet online sports betting ;


Attendance: Your attendance is important, but I recognize that the unexpected will happen. Therefore, you will not be penalized for your first three absences. However, subsequent absences will lower your final course grade; excessive absences (six or more) may result in failure of the course. While I appreciate your offering explanations for absences, the only way to excuse an absence is to provide me with an official letter from the Graduate School or an official notice of illness from the Health Center or your doctor.


Writing Assignments: ENGL 801 is predominately a skills class, so you will be practicing various writing skills over the course of the semester. Writing assignments will include the following:



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 sports betting ;Schedule of Classes&1xbet online sports betting ; 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.



Honor Code: When you turn in written work, you pledge that the work is your own and that you have faithfully abided by the guidelines for documenting sources. The University's Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not your own. If you quote, paraphrase, or use another's ideas, you must give credit to the person whose ideas you are using. Otherwise, you have plagiarized. If you have any questions, please ask. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course.


Note: If you have any condition such as a physical or learning disability that will make it difficult for you to carry out the work as I have outlined it or which will require academic accommodations, please notify me in the first two days of the course.

Grading:
Class Participation 20%
In-class 10%
Postings 10%
Two Abstracts 10%
Responses 15%
Paper #1 15%
Paper #2 40%
Annot. Biblio 10%
Abstract 5%
Paper 25%



Schedule of Classes (Subject to change.)

Note: All assigned reading should be completed by the date listed.
[CP]= Class Pack [R]=Reserve

August M 21 Introduction to ENGL 801
The Profession: What's at Stake in Literary Studies?
W 23 Altick, &1xbet online sports betting ;Vocation&1xbet online sports betting ; (3-13); Graff, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Scholar in Society&1xbet online sports betting ; (343-362); Strausbach, &1xbet online sports betting ;Eggheads' Naughty Word Games&1xbet online sports betting ;; Pullum, &1xbet online sports betting ;It's Your Choice at the MLA&1xbet online sports betting ;; Malesic, &1xbet online sports betting ;Yielding to Convention&1xbet online sports betting ;; Fish, &1xbet online sports betting ;The War on Higher Education&1xbet online sports betting ; and &1xbet online sports betting ;Make 'Em Cry&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
F 25 Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet online sports betting ;They Say / I Say&1xbet online sports betting ;... (ix-xviii; 1-14); Garber, A Manifesto for Literary Studies: &1xbet online sports betting ;Asking Literary Questions&1xbet online sports betting ; (3-14)
Close Reading, Ways of Reading
M 28 Marvell, &1xbet online sports betting ;To His Coy Mistress&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]; Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet online sports betting ;The Formalist Approach&1xbet online sports betting ; (90-116, 149-150) and &1xbet online sports betting ;First Things First: Textual Scholarship, Genres, and Source Study&1xbet online sports betting ; (15-21, 29-35, 46-49)
Response paper (2 pp.) on Marvell due in class
W 30 Marvell, continued; Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet online sports betting ;Historical and Biographical Approaches&1xbet online sports betting ; (51-57) and &1xbet online sports betting ;Moral and Philosophical Approaches&1xbet online sports betting ; (77-80); Garber, Manifesto: &1xbet online sports betting ;Historical Correctness: The Use and Abuse of History for Literature&1xbet online sports betting ; (45-69)
September F 1 Rossetti, &1xbet online sports betting ;Goblin Market&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
M 4 Labour Day
W 6 Rossetti, continued; one of the following chapters from Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet online sports betting ;The Psychological Approach: Freud&1xbet online sports betting ; (152-181); &1xbet online sports betting ;Mythological and Archetypal Approaches&1xbet online sports betting ; (182-221); &1xbet online sports betting ;Feminisms and Gender Studies&1xbet online sports betting ; (222-274); &1xbet online sports betting ;Cultural Studies&1xbet online sports betting ; (275-349); &1xbet online sports betting ;The Play of Meaning(s): Reader-Response Criticism, Dialogics, and Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Including Deconstruction&1xbet online sports betting ; (350-380)
Response paper (2 pp.) on Rossetti and your selected chapter due in class.
F 8 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;From Close Reading to Persuasive Argumentation.&1xbet online sports betting ;
Preparation for Paper #1 (4 pp.): Keats, &1xbet online sports betting ;To Autumn&1xbet online sports betting ; (Option #1) and Atwood, &1xbet online sports betting ;Spelling&1xbet online sports betting ; (Option #2) [CP]; Gibaldi, MLA Handbook: &1xbet online sports betting ;Thesis Statement&1xbet online sports betting ; (49-51), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Mechanics of Writing&1xbet online sports betting ; (77-130), and &1xbet online sports betting ;The Format of the Research Paper&1xbet online sports betting ; (131-138); Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet online sports betting ;They Say / I Say&1xbet online sports betting ;... (39-47; 99-132)
Reminder: Meet the Track Heads, 3:30 p.m. in ECS017
M 11 Keats, &1xbet online sports betting ;To Autumn&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
Paper #1 (Option #1) due in class
W 13 Atwood, &1xbet online sports betting ;Spelling&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
Paper #1 (Option #2) due in class
F 15 Shelley, Frankenstein (1-101)
M 18 Frankenstein (103-156); Veeder, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Women of Frankenstein&1xbet online sports betting ; (271-273); Mellor, &1xbet online sports betting ;Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein&1xbet online sports betting ; (274-286)
W 20 Frankenstein; Guerin (87-89, 141-149, 168-169, 208-209, 249-257, 314-325)
F 22 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;MLA International Bibliography and MLA Style.&1xbet online sports betting ;
Gibaldi, MLA Handbook: &1xbet online sports betting ;Conducting Research&1xbet online sports betting ; (8-37) and &1xbet online sports betting ;Documenting Sources&1xbet online sports betting ; and &1xbet online sports betting ;MLA Style&1xbet online sports betting ; (142-144)
M 25 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Finding the Critical Imperative&1xbet online sports betting ; and &1xbet online sports betting ;Writing an Abstract&1xbet online sports betting ;
Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet online sports betting ;They Say / I Say&1xbet online sports betting ;... (17-38); read and identify thesis claim and sub-claims of Rose, &1xbet online sports betting ;Custody Battles: Reproducing Knowledge about Frankenstein&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
Textual Scholarship and Scholarly Editing
W 27 Textual editing of Frankenstein: Joseph, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Composition of Frankenstein&1xbet online sports betting ; (157-160); Mellor, &1xbet online sports betting ;Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach&1xbet online sports betting ; (160-166); Shelley, &1xbet online sports betting ;Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition&1xbet online sports betting ; (169-173)
Abstract of Zonana, &1xbet online sports betting ;'They Will Prove the Truth of My Tale': Safie's Letters as the Feminist Core of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein&1xbet online sports betting ; (170-184) [CP] due in class
F 29 Nash, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon&1xbet online sports betting ; (1-15); Bruccoli, &1xbet online sports betting ;What Bowers Wrought: An Assessment of the Center for Editions of American Authors&1xbet online sports betting ; (237-244); McGann, &1xbet online sports betting ;Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World&1xbet online sports betting ; (245-260); Howard, &1xbet online sports betting ;Call Me Digital&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
October M 2 Fall Break
W 4 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.
F 6 Guest Speakers: Anne Phillips and Greg Eiselein, Norton Critical Edition of Little Women; brief textual studies exercise due in class.
Boundary Crossings (1): Genre
M 9 Children's Literature, Cross-Reading, and Audience: Clark, &1xbet online sports betting ;Kiddie Lit in Academe&1xbet online sports betting ; (149-157); Byatt, &1xbet online sports betting ;Harry Potter and the Childish Adult&1xbet online sports betting ;; Green, &1xbet online sports betting ;Letter to the Editor&1xbet online sports betting ;; Donnelly, &1xbet online sports betting ;Paperback Writer&1xbet online sports betting ;; and Pullman, &1xbet online sports betting ;Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
W 11 Cobley, &1xbet online sports betting ;Genre&1xbet online sports betting ;; Murfin, &1xbet online sports betting ;Genre&1xbet online sports betting ;; Abrams, &1xbet online sports betting ;Genre&1xbet online sports betting ;; Goldman, from On Drama: Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self (1-10)
F 13 Dramatic Poetry: Frost, &1xbet online sports betting ;Home Burial&1xbet online sports betting ; (792-4); &1xbet online sports betting ;Two Complimentary Critical Readings: Poirier and Kearns&1xbet online sports betting ; (1007-9) [CP]
Response on Frost (2 pp.) due in class
M 16 Sanders, &1xbet online sports betting ;Frost's North of Boston, Its Language, Its People, and Its Poet&1xbet online sports betting ;; Vogt, &1xbet online sports betting ;Narrative and Drama in the Lyric: Robert Frost's Strategic Withdrawal&1xbet online sports betting ;; Bell, &1xbet online sports betting ;Robert Frost and the Nature of Narrative&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
W 18 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Print and Online Resources for Scholarly Research&1xbet online sports betting ;
Gibaldi, &1xbet online sports betting ;Research and Writing&1xbet online sports betting ; (1-63) and &1xbet online sports betting ;Plagiarism&1xbet online sports betting ; (65-75)
Paragraph-length description of selected research topic due in class.
F 20 No class -- read ahead and work on Paper #2.
M 23 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Interventions: Identifying Your Critical Imperative&1xbet online sports betting ;
Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet online sports betting ;They Say / I Say&1xbet online sports betting ;... (49-97); list of five scholarly resources (print or online, formatted in MLA style) for your proposed topic due in class.
W 25 Redefining Realism: Johnson, &1xbet online sports betting ;Rambler No. 4&1xbet online sports betting ;; Woolf, &1xbet online sports betting ;Modern Fiction&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
F 27 Poetic Prose: Woolf, &1xbet online sports betting ;Kew Gardens&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
Su 29 Showing of Neil Jordan's The Crying Game
M 30 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Refining Your Focus and Developing Your Thesis Claim&1xbet online sports betting ;
Abstract of and response to one scholarly article for your paper due in class
November W 1 Political Thriller or Old-Fashioned Love Story?: Jordan, The Crying Game; Jordan, &1xbet online sports betting ;Introduction to The Crying Game&1xbet online sports betting ; and Giles, from The Crying Game [CP]
U 2 Draft Abstract and Annotated Bibliography for Paper #2 due by 5 p.m. to my mailbox in ECS 119.
F 3 The Crying Game, continued; Chumo, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Crying Game, Hitchcockian Romance, and the Quest for Identity&1xbet online sports betting ;; Daly, &1xbet online sports betting ;Post-Colonial Carnival (?): Neil Jordan's The Crying Game&1xbet online sports betting ;; Wynne, &1xbet online sports betting ;Crossing the Border: The Post-Colonial Carnival in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game&1xbet online sports betting ;[CP]
Boundary Crossings (2): Literary Periods, Anthologies, and the Canon
M 6 Rhys, Wide Saragasso Sea (9-64)
W 8 Wide Sargasso Sea (64-112)
F 10 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 sports betting ;'The Other Side': Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre&1xbet online sports betting ; (173-181); and Rody, &1xbet online sports betting ;Burning Down the House...&1xbet online sports betting ; (217-225)
M 13 Emery, &1xbet online sports betting ;Modernist Crosscurrents&1xbet online sports betting ; (161-173); Ramchand, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Place of Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet online sports betting ;(181-187); Drake, &1xbet online sports betting ;Race and Carribean Culture as Thematics of Liberation in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet online sports betting ; (193-206); and Erwin, &1xbet online sports betting ;History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet online sports betting ; (207-216). Cover designs for Rhys's novel.
Response on critical readings (2 pp.) due in class.
W 15 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Integrating Other Voices into Your Argument&1xbet online sports betting ; Bring working thesis claim for Paper #2 to class.
F 17 Besserman, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives&1xbet online sports betting ; (3-27) and one of the following three chapters from Besserman: Griffin, &1xbet online sports betting ;A Critique of Romantic Periodization&1xbet online sports betting ; (133-146); Daleksi, &1xbet online sports betting ;Thomas Hardy: A Victorian Modernist?&1xbet online sports betting ; (179-195), and Vendler, &1xbet online sports betting ;Periodizing Modern American Poetry&1xbet online sports betting ; (233-244)
M 20 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Outlining and Drafting&1xbet online sports betting ;
Writing Workshop: Bring two copies of your introduction with your thesis, your outline, and your &1xbet online sports betting ;Works Cited&1xbet online sports betting ; to class.
W 22 No Class --
F 24 Thanksgiving Break
M 27 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Revising&1xbet online sports betting ;
Writing Workshop: Bring two copies of your full paper and your &1xbet online sports betting ;Works Cited&1xbet online sports betting ; to class.
T 28 Paper #2 (10-12 pp.) and revised abstract due by 5 p.m. to my mailbox in ECS 119.
W 29 &1xbet online sports betting ;Roundtable: Reviews of The Longman Anthology of British Literature and The Norton Anthology of English Literature&1xbet online sports betting ; (195-214); Donadio, &1xbet online sports betting ;Keeper of the Canon&1xbet online sports betting ; [CP]
Speech Acts
December F 1 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet online sports betting ;Preparing for a Conference Presentation&1xbet online sports betting ;
M 4 Panel Presentation #1 Panel 1 Abstracts
W 6 Panel Presentation #2 Panel 2 Abstracts
F 8 Reflections on ENGL 801 and Literary Studies

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