ENGL 801 &1xbet best casino website ;Introduction to Graduate Studies&1xbet best casino website ;

Fall 2007 ~ MWF, 10:30-11:20 a.m.
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Schedule of Classes | WebResources | Message Board

Professor Karin Westman
108B 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 best casino website ;They Say / I Say&1xbet best casino website ;: 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 best casino website ;the methods and aims of advanced-level research and scholarship in language and literature.&1xbet best casino website ; 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 Message 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 Message 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 weekly question prompts as I follow these conversations, and I may also participate, but I see the message 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 message board, follow these directions:
  1. Go to my homepage at http://www.ksu.edu/english/westmank/ and click on our course (ENGL 801), and then &1xbet best casino website ;Message Board&1xbet best casino website ; to login to K-State Online and go directly to the &1xbet best casino website ;Message Board.&1xbet best casino website ; (You may also login to the K-State Online course page for ENGL 801, click on &1xbet best casino website ;Collaboration&1xbet best casino website ; and then select &1xbet best casino website ;Message Board.&1xbet best casino website ;)
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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 best casino website ;Schedule of Classes&1xbet best casino website ; 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 20 Introduction to ENGL 801
The Profession: What's at Stake in Literary Studies?
W 22 Altick, &1xbet best casino website ;Vocation&1xbet best casino website ; (3-13); Graff, &1xbet best casino website ;The Scholar in Society&1xbet best casino website ; (343-362); Strausbach, &1xbet best casino website ;Eggheads' Naughty Word Games&1xbet best casino website ;; Pullum, &1xbet best casino website ;It's Your Choice at the MLA&1xbet best casino website ;; Malesic, &1xbet best casino website ;Yielding to Convention&1xbet best casino website ;; Fish, &1xbet best casino website ;The War on Higher Education&1xbet best casino website ; and &1xbet best casino website ;Make 'Em Cry&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
F 24 Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet best casino website ;They Say / I Say&1xbet best casino website ;... (ix-xviii; 1-14); Garber, A Manifesto for Literary Studies: &1xbet best casino website ;Asking Literary Questions&1xbet best casino website ; (3-14)
Close Reading, Ways of Reading
M 27 Marvell, &1xbet best casino website ;To His Coy Mistress&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]; Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet best casino website ;The Formalist Approach&1xbet best casino website ; (90-116, 149-150) and &1xbet best casino website ;First Things First: Textual Scholarship, Genres, and Source Study&1xbet best casino website ; (15-21, 29-35, 46-49)
Response paper (2 pp.) on Marvell due in class
W 29 Marvell, continued; Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet best casino website ;Historical and Biographical Approaches&1xbet best casino website ; (51-57) and &1xbet best casino website ;Moral and Philosophical Approaches&1xbet best casino website ; (77-80); Garber, Manifesto: &1xbet best casino website ;Historical Correctness: The Use and Abuse of History for Literature&1xbet best casino website ; (45-69)
F 31 Rossetti, &1xbet best casino website ;Goblin Market&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
September M 3 Labor Day -- No Class
W 5 Rossetti, continued; one of the following chapters from Guerin, Handbook: &1xbet best casino website ;The Psychological Approach: Freud&1xbet best casino website ; (152-181); &1xbet best casino website ;Mythological and Archetypal Approaches&1xbet best casino website ; (182-221); &1xbet best casino website ;Feminisms and Gender Studies&1xbet best casino website ; (222-274); &1xbet best casino website ;Cultural Studies&1xbet best casino website ; (275-349); &1xbet best casino website ;The Play of Meaning(s): Reader-Response Criticism, Dialogics, and Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Including Deconstruction&1xbet best casino website ; (350-380)
Response paper (2 pp.) on Rossetti and your selected chapter due in class
F 7 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;From Close Reading to Persuasive Argumentation.&1xbet best casino website ;
Preparation for Paper #1 (4 pp.): Keats, &1xbet best casino website ;To Autumn&1xbet best casino website ; (Option #1) and Atwood, &1xbet best casino website ;Spelling&1xbet best casino website ; (Option #2) [CP]; Gibaldi, MLA Handbook: &1xbet best casino website ;Thesis Statement&1xbet best casino website ; (49-51), &1xbet best casino website ;The Mechanics of Writing&1xbet best casino website ; (77-130), and &1xbet best casino website ;The Format of the Research Paper&1xbet best casino website ; (131-138); Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet best casino website ;They Say / I Say&1xbet best casino website ;... (39-47; 99-132)
M 10 Keats, &1xbet best casino website ;To Autumn&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
Paper #1 (Option #1) due in class
W 12 Atwood, &1xbet best casino website ;Spelling&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
Paper #1 (Option #2) due in class
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F 14 Shelley, Frankenstein (1-101)
M 17 Frankenstein (103-156); Veeder, &1xbet best casino website ;The Women of Frankenstein&1xbet best casino website ; (271-273); Mellor, &1xbet best casino website ;Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein&1xbet best casino website ; (274-286)
W 19 Frankenstein; Guerin (87-89, 141-149, 168-169, 208-209, 249-257, 314-325)
F 21 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;MLA International Bibliography and MLA Style.&1xbet best casino website ;
Gibaldi, MLA Handbook: &1xbet best casino website ;Conducting Research&1xbet best casino website ; (8-37) and &1xbet best casino website ;Documenting Sources&1xbet best casino website ; and &1xbet best casino website ;MLA Style&1xbet best casino website ; (142-144)
M 24 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Finding the Critical Imperative&1xbet best casino website ; and &1xbet best casino website ;Writing an Abstract&1xbet best casino website ;
Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet best casino website ;They Say / I Say&1xbet best casino website ;... (17-38); read and identify thesis claim and sub-claims of Rose, &1xbet best casino website ;Custody Battles: Reproducing Knowledge about Frankenstein&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
Textual Scholarship and Scholarly Editing
W 26 Textual editing of Frankenstein: Joseph, &1xbet best casino website ;The Composition of Frankenstein&1xbet best casino website ; (157-160); Mellor, &1xbet best casino website ;Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach&1xbet best casino website ; (160-166); Shelley, &1xbet best casino website ;Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition&1xbet best casino website ; (169-173)
Abstract of Zonana, &1xbet best casino website ;'They Will Prove the Truth of My Tale': Safie's Letters as the Feminist Core of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein&1xbet best casino website ; (170-184) [CP] due in class
F 28 Nash, &1xbet best casino website ;The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon&1xbet best casino website ; (1-15); Bruccoli, &1xbet best casino website ;What Bowers Wrought: An Assessment of the Center for Editions of American Authors&1xbet best casino website ; (237-244); McGann, &1xbet best casino website ;Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World&1xbet best casino website ; (245-260); Howard, &1xbet best casino website ;Call Me Digital&1xbet best casino website ;; Benton, &1xbet best casino website ;Authoritative Online Editions&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
October M 1 Fall Break -- No Class
W 3 Guest Speakers: Anne Phillips and Greg Eiselein, Norton Critical Edition of Little Women; brief textual studies exercise due in class.
F 5 Guest Speaker: Philip Nel, The Annotated Cat
Seuss, The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back and The Lorax [R]; brief annotation exercise due in class.
Boundary Crossings (1): Genre
M 8 Children's Literature, Cross-Reading, and Audience: Clark, &1xbet best casino website ;Kiddie Lit in Academe&1xbet best casino website ; (149-157); Byatt, &1xbet best casino website ;Harry Potter and the Childish Adult&1xbet best casino website ;; Green, &1xbet best casino website ;Letter to the Editor&1xbet best casino website ;; Donnelly, &1xbet best casino website ;Paperback Writer&1xbet best casino website ;; and Pullman, &1xbet best casino website ;Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
W 10 Cobley, &1xbet best casino website ;Genre&1xbet best casino website ;; Murfin, &1xbet best casino website ;Genre&1xbet best casino website ;; Abrams, &1xbet best casino website ;Genre&1xbet best casino website ;; Goldman, from On Drama: Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self (1-10)
F 12 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Print and Online Resources for Scholarly Research&1xbet best casino website ;
Gibaldi, &1xbet best casino website ;Research and Writing&1xbet best casino website ; (1-63) and &1xbet best casino website ;Plagiarism&1xbet best casino website ; (65-75)
Paragraph-length description of selected research topic due in class.
M 15 Dramatic Poetry: Frost, &1xbet best casino website ;Home Burial&1xbet best casino website ; (792-4); &1xbet best casino website ;Two Complimentary Critical Readings: Poirier and Kearns&1xbet best casino website ; (1007-9) [CP]
Response on Frost (2 pp.) due in class
W 17 Sanders, &1xbet best casino website ;Frost's North of Boston, Its Language, Its People, and Its Poet&1xbet best casino website ;; Vogt, &1xbet best casino website ;Narrative and Drama in the Lyric: Robert Frost's Strategic Withdrawal&1xbet best casino website ;; Bell, &1xbet best casino website ;Robert Frost and the Nature of Narrative&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
F 19 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Interventions: Identifying Your Critical Imperative&1xbet best casino website ;
Graff and Birkenstein, &1xbet best casino website ;They Say / I Say&1xbet best casino website ;... (49-97); list of five scholarly resources (print or online, formatted in MLA style) for your proposed topic due in class.
M 22 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Refining Your Focus and Developing Your Thesis Claim&1xbet best casino website ;
Abstract of and response to one scholarly article for your paper due in class
W 24 Redefining Realism: Johnson, &1xbet best casino website ;Rambler No. 4&1xbet best casino website ;; Woolf, &1xbet best casino website ;Modern Fiction&1xbet best casino website ; [CP] .
F 26 Poetic Prose: Woolf, &1xbet best casino website ;Kew Gardens&1xbet best casino website ; [CP] Class Discussion
M 29 No class -- read ahead and work on Paper #2.
T 30 Evening showing of Neil Jordan's The Crying Game
W 31 Political Thriller or Old-Fashioned Love Story?: Jordan, The Crying Game; Jordan, &1xbet best casino website ;Introduction to The Crying Game&1xbet best casino website ; and Giles, from The Crying Game [CP]
November U 1 Draft Abstract and Annotated Bibliography for Paper #2 due by 5 p.m. to my mailbox in ECS 119.
F 2 The Crying Game, continued; Chumo, &1xbet best casino website ;The Crying Game, Hitchcockian Romance, and the Quest for Identity&1xbet best casino website ;; Handler, &1xbet best casino website ;Sexing The Crying Game: Difference, Identity, Ethics&1xbet best casino website ;; Daly, &1xbet best casino website ;Post-Colonial Carnival (?): Neil Jordan's The Crying Game&1xbet best casino website ;; Wynne, &1xbet best casino website ;Crossing the Border: The Post-Colonial Carnival in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game&1xbet best casino website ;[CP]
Boundary Crossings (2): Literary Periods, Anthologies, and the Canon
M 5 Rhys, Wide Saragasso Sea (9-64)
W 7 Wide Sargasso Sea (64-112)
F 9 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 best casino website ;'The Other Side': Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre&1xbet best casino website ; (173-181); and Rody, &1xbet best casino website ;Burning Down the House...&1xbet best casino website ; (217-225)
M 12 Emery, &1xbet best casino website ;Modernist Crosscurrents&1xbet best casino website ; (161-173); Ramchand, &1xbet best casino website ;The Place of Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet best casino website ;(181-187); Drake, &1xbet best casino website ;Race and Carribean Culture as Thematics of Liberation in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet best casino website ; (193-206); and Erwin, &1xbet best casino website ;History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea&1xbet best casino website ; (207-216). Cover designs for Rhys's novel.
Response on critical readings (2 pp.) due in class.
W 14 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Integrating Other Voices into Your Argument&1xbet best casino website ; Bring working thesis claim for Paper #2 to class.
F 16 Besserman, &1xbet best casino website ;The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives&1xbet best casino website ; (3-27) and one of the following three chapters from Besserman: Griffin, &1xbet best casino website ;A Critique of Romantic Periodization&1xbet best casino website ; (133-146); Daleksi, &1xbet best casino website ;Thomas Hardy: A Victorian Modernist?&1xbet best casino website ; (179-195), and Vendler, &1xbet best casino website ;Periodizing Modern American Poetry&1xbet best casino website ; (233-244)
M 19 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Outlining and Drafting&1xbet best casino website ;
Writing Workshop: Bring two copies of your introduction with your thesis, your outline, and your &1xbet best casino website ;Works Cited&1xbet best casino website ; to class.
W 21 No Class --
F 23 Thanksgiving Break
M 26 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Revising&1xbet best casino website ;
Writing Workshop: Bring two copies of your full paper and your &1xbet best casino website ;Works Cited&1xbet best casino website ; to class.
T 27 Paper #2 (10-12 pp.) and revised abstract due by 5 p.m. to my mailbox in ECS 119.
W 28 &1xbet best casino website ;Roundtable: Reviews of The Longman Anthology of British Literature and The Norton Anthology of English Literature&1xbet best casino website ; (195-214); Donadio, &1xbet best casino website ;Keeper of the Canon&1xbet best casino website ; [CP]
Speech Acts
F 30 Entering the Conversation: &1xbet best casino website ;Preparing for a Conference Presentation&1xbet best casino website ;
December M 3 Panel Presentation #1 Panel 1 Abstracts
W 5 Panel Presentation #2 Panel 2 Abstracts
F 7 Reflections on ENGL 801 and Literary Studies

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Department of English | Kansas State University
Email: westmank@ksu.edu
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