Week 1

Metaphors and Parables—An Invitation to Interpretation

Aug. 20
Bradfield, from The History of Luminous Motion (er).

Aug. 22
“Parable of the Sower” (er).

Week 2

The Four Master Tropes, or Poets Make the World

Aug. 27
Chandler, “Rhetorical Tropes” (er);
Nietzsche, “On Truth and Falsity in their Ultra Moral Sense” (er); and Burke, “The Four Master Tropes” (er).
Summary and Close Reading 1 due.

Aug. 29
Nietzsche, “On Truth and Falsity in their Ultra Moral Sense” (er).

Week 3

The Reader-Writer Dialectic

Sept. 3
Jean-Paul Sartre, “Why Write” (er) and MLA, “Part One.”

Paper 1 U grade resubmissions due.

Trop Analysis Cards 1-4 due.

Sept. 5
Olds, Satan Says and Sartre, “Why Write” (er).

Summary and Close Reading 2 workshop draft due.

Week 4

The Poet as Nietzsche's Hero

Sept. 10
Olds, Satan Says and Jean-Paul Sartre, “Why Write” (er).

Sept. 12
Olds, Satan Says.

Summary and Close Reading 2 Due.

Summary and Close Reading 3 workshop draft due (must be on a poem by Sharon Olds).

Trope Analysis Cards 5-8 due.

Week5

The New Criticism

Sept. 17
Shakespeare, The Sonnets (read sonnets 1-17)

Sept. 19
Shakespeare, The Sonnets (read 18-126) and Brooks from The Well-Wrought Urn, “The Language of Paradox” (er)

Week 6

New Criticism Continued

Sept. 24
Shakespeare, The Sonnets (read 126-154)and Burke, from “The Four Master Tropes” sec. IV, pp 511-517 (er).

Paper 2 U resubmissions due. Paper 1 U U resubmissions due.

Sept. 26
Shakespeare, The Sonnet.

Summary and Close Reading 3 Due

Week 7

Formalism

Oct. 1
Tomasula IN&OZ and Shklovsky, “Art as Technique” (CP).

Trope Analysis Cards 9-12 due.

Oct. 3
Tomasula IN&OZ and Shklovsky, “Art as Technique” (CP).

 Summary and Close Reading 4 Due (must be on a sonnet)

Week 8

Psychoanalysis

Oct. 8
In Tartar: Grimm, “Donkey Skin” 109; de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast” 32; Brooks from Reading for the Plot (wr).

Oct. 10
In Tartar: Grimm, “Donkey Skin” 109; de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast” 32; Brooks from Reading for the Plot (wr).

Trope Analysis Cards 13-16 due.

Week 9

Psychoanalysis

Oct. 15
In Tartar: Carter, “The Tiger's Bride.”

Oct. 17
Hoffmann, “The Sandman” and Freud, “The Uncanny” (er).

Week 10

Feminism

Oct. 22
Woolf, “Shakespeare's Sister” and Moi, “Feminist, Female, Feminine”

Oct. 24
Woolf, “Shakespeare's Sister” and Moi, “Feminist, Female, Feminine”

Trope Analysis Cards 16-20 due.

Week 11

The novel, realism, and the research paper.

Oct. 29
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.

Oct. 31
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto and using The MLA Bibliography.

Week 12

Marxism

Nov. 5

Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, and Ohmann and Ohmann, “Reviewers, Critics, and 'The Catcher in the Rye.'”

Trope Analysis Cards 21-25 due.

Nov. 7

Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, and Ohmann and Ohmann, “Reviewers, Critics, and 'The Catcher in the Rye.'”

Week 13

Introducing the Research Paper

Nov. 12

Introduction to literary research and the MLA bibliography

Draft of Theoretical Application Paper Due

Nov. 14

In-class work on Research Proposal (Bring your laptop if you have one)

Week 14

Research Paper

Nov. 19

 Research Paper Proposal Due
Theoretical Application Paper Due

In-class workshop on research paper introductions

Nov. 21

In-class workshop on developing arguments

Week 15

Thanksgiving Break

Nov. 26

Nov. 28

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Week 16

Student Life—Reading Life

Dec. 3

Discussion of the English Major

In-class student evaluations of the course.

Dec. 5

Discussion of Reading Life

Last Day to Submit Summary and Close Reading Revisions. 

Week 17

Final Exam Week

Dec. 10

Dec. 12

FINAL EXAM 8:00 AM

Reflective Essay due
Research Paper due