9:30-10:45 TR Grainger B15. Dr. Lund (Grainger 223: 395-2168; http://web.lwc.edu/staff/mlund/mlund.html. Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00; TTR 1:45-2;45; and by appointment.
Texts: The Critical Tradition, ed. David Richter, 2nd edition (St. Martins); Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (St. Martins); Eric Kraft, Leaving Small’s Hotel (Picador).
Course Description: Study of the history and aims of literary criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present.
August 31: Introduction
September 2: TCR “Introduction” 1-8; Plato* 17-29; Hotel
Preface, Sept. 10-13
7:
Aristotle* 38-64 Expectations Parts 1-2
9: Horace* 65-78 Hotel Sept. 14-17
14: Sidney* 131-159; Behn* 197-205; Expectations 3-6
16: Pope* 206-217; Johnson* 218-38 Hotel Sept. 18-21
21: Wordsworth*
300-14; de Staël* 281-83, 289-93;
Expectations 7-10
23: Arnold*
394-411; Eliot* 495-503; Hotel Sept. 22-25
28: Test
30: Psychological
Criticism 1014-24; Freud* 481-87;
GE 463-76: Hotel Sept. 26-30
October 5: Formalism 699-713; Expectations 11-14
7: Structuralism 809-818; Hotel Oct. 1-4
12: Deconstruction
818-27; Derrida* 877-89;
Expectations 15-18
14: Hotel Oct.5-8; Paper 1 Due
* Fall Break *
21: Reader
Response 917-31; Fetterley* 990-998;
Expectations 19-22
26: Guest
Appearance: Eric Kraft
(Dos Passos award, 8:00 pm, Wygal)
28: Feminism
1345-58; GE 527-38; Hotel Oct.9-12
November 2: Gilbert and Gubar*; McDowell*;
Expectations 23-26
4:
Marxism 1087-1102; Hotel Oct.13-16
9: Critical History GE 445-62; GE 463-76;
Expectations 27-30
11:
Canon Formation 1526-38; GE 3-21; Hotel Oct. 17-20
16: Gender Criticism GE 558-69; Expectations 31-34
18: Paper 2 Due
23: Cultural Criticism 1204-1221;
GE 326-336;
Expectations 35-36
30: GE Brooks, Said; Hotel Oct. 21-24
* Thanksgiving *
December 2: GE Schor; Hotel Oct. 25-29
7: GE Clayton; Expectations
9: Hotel Afterward
16: Final Exam (2:00-5:00); Paper # 3 Due
Course Requirements: read the material listed above and discuss
on the dates shown (5%); turn in 100 word typed journal entries for items
marked with an asterisk (*) on the date assigned (15%); 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 one test (15%) and a final exam (15%); make one oral report
(5%). 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 562: These students will make an additional 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.