9:00-9:50 MWF Frazer 145B;. Dr. Lund (Trailer 1G: 395-2168; http://web.lwc.edu/staff/mlund/mlund.html.
Office Hours:
MW 10:00-10:50; TTR 1:45-2;45; and by appointment.
Course Description: Study of the history and aims of literary criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present.
January 16: Introduction: Poetry Wednesdays http://www.poplyrics.net/waiguo/soundtrack/obrother/013.htm
18:
Plato, Republic, Books II, X; http://www.constitution.org/pla/republic.htm
(begin Book II at "Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in story-telling
. . . ";
(end Book X at " . . . or under the excitement of poetry, he neglect justice
and virtue?"
21:
Bram Stoker, Dracula (St.
Martins) Chapters 1-IV
23: Aristotle, Poetics http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/a8/poetics.html
25: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0065
or via http://www.grtbooks.com/
28: Dracula V-VII
30: Poetry Wednesday
February 1: Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext99/dfncp10.txt
4: Dracula VIII-XI
6: Poetry Wednesday
8: Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/essay.html
11: Dracula XII-XIII
13: Poetry Wednesday
15: Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/criticism/johns_il.html
18: Dracula XIV-XVII
20: Poetry Wednesday
22: Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Norton Anthology of British Literature)
25: Dracula XVIII-XXII
27: Poetry Wednesday
March 1: Freud,
The
Interpretation of Dreams http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/chap06a.htm
and http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/chap06c.htm
4: Dracula XXIII-XXIV
6: Poetry Wednesday
8: Dracula XXV-XXVII
* * * Spring Break * * *
18: Dracula: Contexts; Critical History
20: T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html
New Criticism; Formalism
22: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (St. Martins) pp. 23-57
25: Death in Venice pp. 57-88
27: Paper # 1 Due
29: Death in Venice: Contexts; Critical History
April 1: Pyschoanalytical approaches (Death, Dracula)
3: Reader Response (Death); Deconstruction (Dracula)
5: Chaucer, The Wife of Bath (St. Martins) pp. 29-73
8: New Historical approaches (Death, Dracula)
10: Chaucer, The Wife of Bath 73-85
12: Paper # 2 Due
15: Wife of Bath: Contexts; Critical History
17: Marxist approaches (Wife); Cultural approaches (Death)
19: Feminist Approaches (Wife); Gender approaches (Dracula)
22: English Major Assessment Test
24: English Major Assessment Test
26: Combining Critical Approaches (Dracula); Paper # 3 Due
29: Final Exam 11:30-2:00
Course Requirements: read--before each class--the material
listed above and discuss on the dates shown (20%); turn in 150 word
analyses of poems from Poetry Wednesday (20%); write one 3-4 page paper
summarizing the critical
response to a work of literature (15%); write one 3-4 page paper comparing
three to five approaches to literature (15%); write
one 3-4 page essay on a twentieth century school of theory (15%); take
a final exam (15%).. You should save all returned written work from
the course for one semester. Grading scale: 90%=A; 80%=B;
70%=G; 60%=D; less than 60%@F.
Attendance Policy: See the College Catalog and the Student Handbook.
English 561: These students will make an oral report and expand
the third essay into a 10 page critical essay.
Inclement Weather: If the college closes for inclement weather,
students should continue work as outlined above.