Course Outline


July 3��� Introduction
July 4��� Plato Republic, Book X (CT 21-29)
            Ion (CT 29-37)
����������� Aristotle Poetics (CT 42-64)
July 5��� Sophocles Oedipus the King
July 6��� Horace "The Art of Poetry" (CT 68-78)
����������� Sidney "Apology for Poetry" (CT 134-59)����������� 
July 7��� Adams Poetic Designs (1-36, 88-92)
           
Marvell "To His Coy Mistress"
����������� Shakespeare "Sonnet 29"
July 10� Adams Poetic Designs (37-69)
����������� Bradstreet "The Author to her Book"
����������� Berryman from "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet"
July 11� Pope "An Essay on Criticism" (CT 208-17)
����������� Mary Leapor "The Epistle of Deborah Dough"
July 12� Alfred Corn "Contemporary Culture and the letter 'K'"
����������� Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
July 13� In-class test on poetry
            Topics for position paper
July 14� Wordsworth "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (CT 302-14)
�����������Hegel "Introduction to the Philosophy of Art" (CT 361-72)
July 17� Topics for term paper
�����������Eliot "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (CT 498-503)
�����������Wimsatt and Beardsley "The Intentional Fallacy" (CT 749-57)
July 18� Bakhtin �Discourse and the Novel� (CT 530-40)
July 19� Marx "Consciousness," "On Greek Art" (CT 388-93)
�����������Williams "Marxism and Literature" (CT 1154-72)
July 20� Shelley Frankenstein
July 21� Benjamin "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (CT 1106-21)
July 24� Library research workshop
July 25� Luk�cs "The Ideology of Modernism" (CT 1127-40)
�����������Sontag "Against Interpretation" (CT 691-96)
July 26� Beckett "Krapp's Last Tape"
July 27� Saussure "Nature of the Linguistic Sign"� (CT 832-35)
�����������Barthes "From Work to Text" (CT 901-16)
July 28� Position paper due
              L�vi-Strauss "The Structural Study of Myth" (CT 836-44)
�����������Derrida "Structure, Sign and Play" (CT 878-88)
July 31� Poe �The Purloined Letter�
Aug. 1�� Freud "Creative Writers" (CT 483-88)
�����������Lacan "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious" (CT1045-64)
Aug. 2�� White "The Politics of Historical Interpretation" (CT 1297-15)
Aug. 3�� Kafka "Cares of a Family Man"
Aug. 4�� Said "Introduction to Orientalism" (CT 1279-91)
�����������Bhabha "Locations of Culture" (CT 1331-44)
Aug. 7�� Holiday�no class
Aug. 8�� Woolf from A Room of One's Own (CT 551-59)
�����������de Beauvoir "Myths: Of Women in Five Authors" (CT 638-40)
Aug. 9�� Cixous "The Laugh of the Medusa" (CT 1454-66)
�����������Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (CT 1445-53)
Aug.10� Butler "Imitation and Gender Subordination" (CT 1514-25)
�����������Sedgwick from Epistemology of the Closet (CT 1482-86)
Aug.11� Term Paper due
�����������Summary and review

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