| DAY | DATE | C L A S S | Bressler | Bront‘ or Tennyson | Assignment | |
| Mon | Aug, 22 | "Jennifer Gentle" - Meaning/Structure -- "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" -- over determination. | ||||
| Wed | Aug. 24 | What do words mean? Definitions -Heteroglossia | ||||
| Mon | Aug, 29 | Bildungsroman & Biography - Narratological Choices | JE-Title Page - end of Ch. V | Extended Definition | ||
| Wed | Aug. 31 | Bressler, ÒRussian Formalism and New CriticismÓ | (50-71) | |||
| Mon | Sept. 5 | |||||
| Wed | Sept. 7 | The idea of carnival - Historical Context | JE Ch. VI-Ch. XIII | |||
| Mon | Sept. 12 | Bressler, ÒReader-Oriented CriticismÓ | (72-95) | What do I bring to the text? | ||
| Wed | Sept. 14 | The Authority of Interpretive Communities - "Railroad Bill" | JE CH. XIII-CH XX | |||
| Mon | Sept. 19 | Bront‘ -- and Governesses - Mrs. Chapone & the Times- Juvenelia | JE Ch. XX- -Ch. XIII | |||
| Wed | Sept. 21 | Russian Formalism | (50-67) | London Times - Assignment | ||
| Mon | Sept. 26 | Form & Structure | JE Ch. XX- -Ch. XXIV | |||
| Wed | Sept. 28 | Who is Rochester - What outcomes are possible? | JE Ch. XXIV - Ch. XXIX | |||
| Mon | Oct. 3 | Feminism | (167-186) | |||
| Wed | Oct. 5 | Plain Jane & Cross-Dressing Rochester | JE XXIX - XXXIV | Gender construction | ||
| Mon | Oct. 10 | Imagining the future - Can theory outsmart the author? | JE XXXIV - End | |||
| Wed | Oct. 12 | Modernity & Postmodernism -- The forces behind knowledge | (96-134) | Paper 1 - Viewing Jane Eyre | ||
| Mon | Oct. 17 | |||||
| Wed | Oct. 19 | Cognition - language - and relationships | ||||
| Mon | Oct. 24 | Book History - Production - Textuality & The Bible (archetypes) | Tennyson - Stanzas 1-15 | |||
| Wed | Oct. 26 | Poetic Meter & Poetic Rhyme | Handouts - Pope - Handel | Tennyson - Stanzas 16 - 32 | ||
| Mon | Oct. 31 | Writing "In Memoriam" - A Practical Exercise | Tennyson - Stanzas 32 -50 | Function of a tight rhyme. | ||
| Wed | Nov. 2 | Marxism | (191-205) | |||
| Mon | Nov. 7 | Commerce - Politics - Social philosophy | Tennyson - Stanzas 51-70 | |||
| Wed | Nov. 09 | Cultural Poetics | (212-226) | |||
| Mon | Nov. 14 | Tenor of the Times - Prceding Darwin - Poetics of Angst (who cares about Hallam?) | Tennyson - Stanzas 71-95 | Psycho-Tennyson | Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
| Wed | Nov. 16 | Cultural Studies | (233-263) | |||
| Mon | Nov. 21 | Nature Red in Tooth & Claw - | Tennyson - Stanzas 96-118 | |||
| Wed | Nov. 23 | T H A N K S G I V I N G | Handouts | |||
| Mon | Nov. 29 | Science Studies | ||||
| Wed | Dec. 1 | Review - Looking for meaning | Tennyson - Stanzas 118 - Epilogue | |||
| Mon | Dec. 6 | FINAL PAPER | ||||