Approaches to Literature - 3100 - Rauch

Schedule

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      


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