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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