January

T 19

Introduction (1); Classical: Plato, Republic, Book X (21), Ion (29); Aristotle, Poetics (42); Horace, The Art of Poetry (68); Longinus, On the Sublime (81); Plotinus, On the Intellectual Beauty (110)

T 26

British: Sidney (131-142 [" . . . dumb speaker"]); Dryden (160-162; 183 ["If they content . . . "]-185); Pope (206-207; Part I); Samuel Johnson (218-220; The Rambler, No. 4; from Preface to Shakespeare); Wordsworth (300); Coleridge (315); Arnold (394-396); "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"

February

T 2

Philosophy: Hume, intro. only (239-242); Kant, from Critique of Judgment, First Book (257-269); Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (361); Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, I, V, XIX (419); Heidegger, Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry (563); Sartre, Why Write? (624)

T 9

Modernists: Marx, Consciousness Derived from Material Conditions from The German Ideology 388); Freud, Creative Writers and Daydreaming (483), The Theme of the Three Caskets (488); Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent (498); Jung, The Principal Archetypes (516); Bakhtin, from Discourse in the Novel (530); Woolf, Shakespeare's Sister from A Room of One's Own (551); Burke, Literature as Equipment for Living (593); Frye, The Archetypes of Literature (643)

(short paper due)

T 16

Formalisms (699): Shklovsky, Art as Technique (717); Empson, Epilogue to Seven Types of Ambiguity (736); Wimsatt and Beardsley, The Intentional Fallacy (749); Brooks, Irony as a Principle of Structure (758); Booth, Pluralism and Its Rivals (786); Phelan, Narrative as Rhetoric: Reading the Spells of Porter's "Magic" (796); Tyson: Everything You Wanted to Know About Critical Theory But Were Afraid to Ask (1); New Criticism (117)

T 23

Structuralism, Semiotics, and Deconstruction (809): Saussure, Nature of the Linguistic Sign (832); Lévi-Strauss, The Structural Study of Myth (836); Culler, Literary Competence (854); Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (878); Barthes, From Work to Text (901); Tyson: Structuralist Criticism (197); Deconstructive Criticism (241)

March

T 2

Reader-Response Criticism (917): Iser, The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach (956); Holland, The Question: Who Reads What How? (969); Fetterley, Introduction to The Resisting Reader (991); Rabinowitz, from Before Reading (998); Tyson: Reader-Response Criticism (153)

8-12

Spring Break

T 16

Psychoanalytic Theory (1014): Bloom, A Meditation Upon Priority (1028); Brooks, Freud's Masterplot (1033); Lacan, The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud (1045); Gallop, from Reading Lacan (1065); Tyson: Psychoanalytic Criticism (13)

(short paper due)

T 23

Marxist Criticism (1087): Adorno, from Minima Moralia (1123); Lukács, The Ideology of Modernism (1127); Williams, from Marxism and Literature (1154); Jameson, from The Political Unconscious (1172); Tyson: Marxist Criticism (49)

T 30

New Historicism and Cultural Studies (1204): Foucault, Las Meninas (1222); Said, from the introduction to Orientalism (1279); Greenblatt, introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance (1293), King Lear and Harsnett's "Devil-Fiction" (1295); Armstrong, Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity (1317); Tyson: New Historical and Cultural Criticism (277)

April

T 6

Feminist Literary Criticism (1345): Gilbert and Gubar, from Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship (1361); Showalter, Toward a Feminist Poetics (1375); Kolodny, Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of Feminist Literary Criticism (1387); Smith, Toward a Black Feminist Criticism (1411); McDowell, New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism (1422); Tyson: Feminist Criticism (81)

(short paper due)

T 13

Gender Studies and Queer Theory (1431-1444): Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1445); Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa (1454); Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One (1467); Michel Foucault, From The History of Sexuality (1472); Eve Kosofsky Sedwick, From The Epistemology of the Closet (1482); Tyson: Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Criticism (317)

T 20

Multiculturalism and the Canon Wars: The Politics of Literature (1526): Baym, Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors (1540); Smith, Contingencies of Value (1552); Gates, Writing,"Race," and the Difference It Makes (1576); John Guillory, From Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (1589); Tyson: Postcolonial and African American Criticism (focus on African American: 363-364, 380-401, 417-420)

T 27

Tyson: Gaining an Overview (423); Critical Symposium

(revised long critical paper due)

W 28

Study Day

TBA

Final Exam