Keats, ''Ode on a Grecian Urn''
In Keesey, Appendix A. We will read this in class.
You may wish to start reading Appendix B, ''Benito Cereno'' and Postmortem for a Postmodernist.
If you have not read The Tempest before, you should read it before we start discussing it.
Eagleton, ''Introduction: What is Literature?''
On E-Reserve. Skim also ''The Rise of English,'' which is part of the same e-reserve file. From Eagleton's book, Literary Theory.
Note that you will need an ID and password to view this file. (Click that link, select Jerz, D and click "Go," then click on the course title. I'll tell you the ID and password in class [Actually, I e-mailed them. -- DGJ], and leave space here for you to write them down.
ID _____________ Password ______________
Elliot, ''Tradition and the Individual Talent''
Online at http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html
Melville, ''Benito Cereno''
In Keesey, Appendix B. This is a long story, written in a style that will require some concentration. Don't leave this until the last minute.
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Kaplan, ''Herman Melville and the American National Sin: The Meaning of 'Benito Cereno'''
In Keesey, Ch 1
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Shakespeare, The Tempest
If you are not already familiar with this play, you will need to read it or watch a video in order to fully understand the assigned critical readings.
Yachnin, ''Shakespare and the Idea of Obedience: Gonzalo in The Tempest
In Keesey, Ch 1
Austin, ''Toward Resolving Keats's Grecian Urn Ode
In Keesey, Ch 1
Brooks, ''Irony as a Principle of Structure''
In Keesey, Ch 2
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Kent, ''On the Third Stanza of Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'''
In Keesey, Ch 2
Iser, ''Readers and the Concept of the Implied Reader''
In Keesey, Ch 3
O'Connell, ''Narrative Collusion and Occlusion in Melville's 'Benito Cereno'''
In Keesey, Ch 3
Kolodny, '"A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts''
In Keesey, Ch 3
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Anonymous, ''Everyman''
I will try to get a copy of the script the SHU production used. In the meanwhile, here is a slightly modified version of a copy posted at Fordham U's website.
Paris, ''The Uses of Psychology''
In Keesey, Ch 4
Presenter: Kevin "Kelo the Great" Hinton
Donovan, ''Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as a Moral Criticism''
In Keesey, Ch 4
Brann, ''Pictures in Poetry: Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn''
In Keesey, Ch 4
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Intertextuality: Arnzen vs. William Carlos Williams
Damned Critic: Arnzen versus William Carlos Williams, Part 2Michael A. Arnzen, whether he knows or not, has written a poem in the shadow of "The Red Wheelbarrow" and all those other snappy little wonders Williams used to jot on his perscription pad, whiling away the moments between seeing patients as a baby doctor.
Frye, ''The Critical Path''
In Keesey, Ch 5
ENTHUSIASTIC presenter: Denamarie Ercolani
Culler, ''Structuralism and Literature''
In Keesey, Ch 5
Presenter:Jay Pugh
Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure''
In Keesey, Ch 5
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Freud, ''The Uncanny''
On e-reserve.
Our presenter is great.
Her name's Erin Waite.
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
Derrida, ''Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences''
In Keesey, Ch 6
Brave presenter: Valerie Masciarelli
Wright, ''The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism''
In Keesey, Ch 6
Presenter: Tiffany Brattina
Murfin and Ray, Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.
de Man, ''Semilogy and Rhetoric''
In Keesey, Ch 6
Presenter: Karissa Kilgore
Guetti, ''Resisting the Aesthetic''
In Keesey, Ch 6
Presenter: Diana Geleskie
Choose either Guetti or Feldstein.
Feldstein, ''Reader, Text, and Ambiguous Referentiality in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'''
In Keesey, Ch 6
Presenter: Vanessa Kolberg
Greenblatt, ''Culture''
In Keesey, Ch 7
Presenter: Lorin Schumacher
Garson, 'Bodily Harm" Keats's Figures in the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'''
In Keesey, Ch 7
Presenter: Mitchell Steele
Belsey, ''Literature, History, Politics''
In Keesey, Ch 7
Presenter: Kevin McGinnis (on Belsey)
Choose either Belsey or Dock.
Barker and Hulme, ''Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish''
In Keesey, Ch 7
Presenter: Dave Moio
Dock, '''But One Expects That': Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and the Shifting Light of Scholarship''
In Keesey, Ch 7
Choose either Belsey or Dock.