| DAY | DATE | C L A S S | Bressler | Bront‘ or Tennyson | Assignment |
| Mon | Jan. 11th | "Jennifer Gentle" - Meaning/Structure -- "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" -- over determination. | |||
| Wed | Jan. 13th | What do words mean? Definitions -Heteroglossia | 19-Jan | ||
| Mon | Jan. 18th | MLK Day | |||
| Wed | Jan. 20th | Bildungsroman & Biography - Narratological Choices | JE-Title Page - end of Ch. V | Extended Definition | |
| Mon | Jan. 25th | Bressler, ÒRussian Formalism and New CriticismÓ | (50-71) | ||
| Wed | Jan. 27th | The idea of carnival - Historical Context | JE Ch. VI-Ch. XIII | ||
| Mon | Feb. 1st | Bressler, ÒReader-Oriented CriticismÓ | (72-95) | What do I bring to the text? | |
| Wed | Feb. 3rd | The Authority of Interpretive Communities - "Railroad Bill" | JE CH. XIII-CH XX | ||
| Mon | Feb. 8th | Bront‘ -- and Governesses - Mrs. Chapone & the Times- Juvenelia | JE Ch. XX- -Ch. XIII | ||
| Wed | Feb. 10th | Russian Formalism | (50-67) | London Times - Assignment | |
| Mon | Feb. 15th | Form & Structure | JE Ch. XX- -Ch. XXIV | ||
| Wed | Feb. 17th | Who is Rochester - What outcomes are possible? | JE Ch. XXIV - Ch. XXIX | ||
| Mon | Feb. 22nd | Feminism | (167-186) | ||
| Wed | Feb. 24th | Plain Jane & Cross-Dressing Rochester | JE XXIX - XXXIV | Gender construction | |
| Mon | Mar. 1 | Imagining the future - Can theory outsmart the author? | JE XXXIV - End | ||
| Wed | Mar. 3rd | Modernity & Postmodernism -- The forces behind knowledge | (96-134) | ||
| Mon | Mar. 8th | S P R I N G B R E A K | |||
| Wed | Mar. 10th | Psychoanalytic Criticism | (142-161) | Paper 1 - Viewing Jane Eyre | |
| Mon | Mar. 15th | Cognition - language - and relationships | |||
| Wed | Mar. 17th | Book History - Production - Textuality & The Bible (archetypes) | Tennyson - Stanzas 1-15 | ||
| Mon | Mar. 22nd | Poetic Meter & Poetic Rhyme | Handouts - Pope - Handel | Tennyson - Stanzas 16 - 32 | |
| Wed | Mar. 24th | Writing "In Memoriam" - A Practical Exercise | Tennyson - Stanzas 32 -50 | Function of a tight rhyme. | |
| Mon | Mar. 29th | Marxism | (191-205) | ||
| Wed | Mar. 31 | Commerce - Politics - Social philosophy | Tennyson - Stanzas 51-70 | ||
| Mon | Apr. 5th | Cultural Poetics | (212-226) | ||
| Wed | Apr. 7th | Tenor of the Times - Prceding Darwin - Poetics of Angst (who cares about Hallam?) | Tennyson - Stanzas 71-95 | Psycho-Tennyson | |
| Mon | Apr. 12 | Cultural Studies | (233-263) | ||
| Wed | Apr. 14th | Nature Red in Tooth & Claw - | Tennyson - Stanzas 96-118 | ||
| Mon | Apr. 19th | Science Studies | Handouts | ||
| Wed | Apr. 21st | Review - Looking for meaning | Tennyson - Stanzas 118 - Epilogue | ||
| Mon | Apr. 26th | Review - Writing about Meaning | |||
| Wed | Apr. 28th | Review - Reading about Meaning | Final Paper | ||
| Mon | May. 3rd | LAST Day |