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ENG 430: 30060
ENG 535: 97960 |
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The killing of a gorilla
from Winwood Reade, Savage Africa [1864]
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This
course meets on Thursday nights from 6-9 in LL 60. Readings are listed
below on the syllabus. In addition to completing the weekly
reading, submitting the writing assignments, and attending
class regularly and participating in discussion, you are
required to participate in asynchronous Blackboard discussions
every week. . |
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Dan Bivona
Office: FOUND 1150
dbivona@asu.edu
Office hours: Wednesdays, 3-5 pm and by appointment
Phone: 480-965-8260
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dbivona
Kimber Knutson
Office: LL 302D
Kimber.Knutson@asu.edu
Office hours: Thursdays, 4-6 and by appointment
Phone: 480-965-0926
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Victorian
culture generated a variety of different and often conflicting
models of "manliness." These models played
increasingly important roles in a wide variety of important
social and cultural movements over the course of the century,
from the emergence of a middle class patriarchy to the development
of feminist consciousness to the creation of the Aestheticist
movement. Moreover, manliness was more often than not defined
by the Victorians in opposition to such concepts as “woman,” “female
desire,” “unmanly men,” and so on. In this
course, we will be reading a number of different types of
texts – poetry, prose, and novels; some written by
men, some by women – and will attempt to survey this
topic in as much of its variety as we can. The focus will be on critical reading and writing. Readings
will be drawn from the work of Carlyle, Dickens, Emily Brontë,
Eliot, Kingsley, Newman, Stevenson, Pater, Wilde, Kipling,
and Symonds. Supplemental readings will be drawn primarily
from the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler.
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Assignment |
Where it can be found |
Due Date |
% of Final Grade |
1st critical paper, 3-5 pages in length |
Topics in the "Writing Assignments" area
of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on Feb. 9, 11:59 PM |
20% |
2nd critical paper, 3-5 pages in length |
Topics in the "Writing Assignments" area
of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on Mar. 9, 11:59 PM |
20% |
3rd paper: critical research paper |
Topics in the "Writing Assignments" area
of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on May 4, 11:59 PM |
35% |
weekly contributions to class discussion, on Blackboard
and in class; weekly quizzes on the reading |
"Discussion Board" area of Blackboard and
in class |
throughout |
25% |
Total |
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100% |
*You have the option to revise and resubmit this critical
paper for an additional grade. If you choose to do so, your
first draft grade will count for 10% of your final grade
and the
revision grade will count for 10%. Revisions
are due in the digital
drop box on the final day of class, May 4.
The first two papers should
be 3-5 pages in length. Topics can be found on Blackboard
by following the "Writing Assignments" link. These
papers are to be submitted to the digital drop box in Blackboard
no later than 11:59.59 pm on the due date. Papers will be
reduced a grade for every day they are late. Use MLA
Format for citations.
A note on getting started: It
is crucial that you find a thesis to argue and cite evidence
from the text(s) to support your claims. Effective note-taking
on the novels is very important, because you will need to
use your notes to find the evidence to support your claims.
An effective literary thesis should assert something about
the meaning of the work that is not obvious to everyone who
has read it. To get started with formulating your thesis,
I usually invite students to identify a topic first and then
find an issue which is worth arguing about. If you can formulate
that issue as a question, your general answer to that question
can be your thesis. You may email me a thesis paragraph in
advance if you wish some feedback before you actually complete
the paper. You are allowed to pick up and develop points
made in class discussion on your papers provided they are
related to the topic you have chosen. See the topics on Blackboard
for further instructions. Please note
that Dan Bivona will be holding synchronous office hours
on Wednesdays,
2-5 pm and will be glad to address any questions you
might have then. Kimber Knutson's office hours are Thursdays,
4-6 (kimber.knutson@asu.edu). If you cannot meet during office
hours,
please let us know and we will schedule a more convenient
time to meet.
The final paper, a critical
research paper, should be 10-12 pages in length. You should
use at least three secondary sources. Again, topics will
be found on the course Blackboard in the "Writing Assignments"
area.
Weekly contributions to online
class discussion: These are mandatory in this
class. Everyone is required to pose at least 6 questions
to the group online over the course of the 16-week term.
In addition, every student is required to respond at least
once per week to other students' or my questions. You will
be graded both on the frequency of your contributions and
on the quality of them. The best strategy is to post at
least 3 or 4 thoughtful responses and/or questions per
week. Please be sure to make them thoughtful,
paragraph-long responses, not quick, two-word responses,
and be sure to observe the conventions of civil online
discourse (no flaming or personal remarks about other students
in the class). Questions
may deal with the previous week's reading or with the upcoming
week's reading. You
may ask questions or make responses that relate current
material to material introduced earlier in the course,
but please do not pose questions about a novel that the
rest of the class will not have read for two more weeks.
Questions and responses should be posted no later than midnight
MST on Wednesday of
each week to be counted for that week.
Please note that
all work done for this course must be your original work.
If you make use of the insights of other writers, you must
cite them in your papers using MLA
citation format. Punishments for plagiarism can be
very severe and may include a permanent grade of "failure
with academic dishonesty" or suspension from the University.
If you have any questions about what constitutes plagiarism,
please ask me.
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Assignment |
Where it can be found |
Due Date |
% of Final Grade |
1st critical paper, 3-5 pages in length |
Topics in the "Writing Assignments" area of
Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on Feb. 9, 11:59 PM |
15% |
2nd critical paper, 3-5 pages in length |
Topics in the "Writing Assignments" area of
Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on Mar. 9, 11:59 PM |
15% |
3rd critical paper , 3-5 page in length or in-class
presentation |
Topics in the "Writing Assignments" area of
Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on Mar. 30, 11:59 PM |
15% |
4th paper: critical research paper, 10-15 page in length |
Topics in th e"Writing Assignments" area of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on May 4, 11:59pm |
30% |
weekly contributions to class discussion, on Blackboard
and in class; weekly quizzes on the reading |
"Discussion Board" area of Blackboard and in
class |
throughout |
25% |
Total |
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100% |
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Author |
Title |
Edition |
Michel Foucault |
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 |
Knopf |
Judith Butler |
Gender Trouble |
Routledge |
George Eliot |
Adam Bede |
Penguin |
Oscar Wilde |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Bantam |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Jungle Books |
Penguin |
Emily Brontë |
Wuthering Heights |
Penguin |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
Kidnapped |
Modern Library |
Charles Dickens |
Great Expectations |
Simon & Schuster |
Thomas Hughes |
Tom Brown's Schooldays |
Oxford |
These books are currently available at the ASU Bookstore.
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Week |
Topic |
Reading/Assignments |
Jan. 19 |
Introduction to the course |
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Jan. 26 |
Sexuality, Class and Masculinity |
The History of Sexuality, Vol.
I; Kincaid, "Introduction" to The Erotic
Child (reserve) ; Rictor Norton, "Social Constructionism," "Homosexual Identities," "The Myth of the Modern Homosexual" |
Feb. 2 |
cont. |
Wuthering Heights; Nietzsche, "What is Noble?" from Beyond Good and Evil |
Feb. 9* |
Carlyle, Newman, Kingsley, and Muscular
Christianity |
Carlyle, from Past and Present
(reserve) ; the
Newman-Kingsley controversy; Tom Brown's Schooldays (Project Gutenberg) ; John
Tosh, extract from A Man's Place (reserve).
Source for Carlyle: Jocelin of Brakelond, Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmund's |
Feb. 16 |
cont. |
Tom Brown's Schooldays (Project Gutenberg); Martha Nussbaum, "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism" |
Feb. 23 |
The Criminal and the Gentleman |
Great Expectations; Newman's
Ideal
of the Gentleman (from The Idea of a University, 1852) |
Mar. 2 |
cont. |
Great Expectations |
Mar. 9** |
Gender and Performativity |
Gender Trouble |
Mar. 16 |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
Mar. 23 |
The Domesticated Male |
Adam Bede |
Mar. 30 |
cont. |
Adam Bede |
Apr. 6 |
Male Fantasy, the Suppression of
Affect, and Empire |
Kidnapped; Norbert Elias,
"The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint" (reserve) |
Apr. 13 |
Male Fantasy and the Homosocial Order |
The Jungle Books |
Apr. 20 |
Male Fantasy and Bureaucratic Order |
The Jungle Books; for an alternative view of the human role in the natural world, see "Humans as Prey" |
Apr. 27 |
Aestheticism, Performative Gender,
and Homoeroticism |
The Picture of Dorian Gray; Pater,
"Conclusion" to The Renaissance: A Study; J.
A. Symonds, "A Problem in Greek Ethics" |
May 4*** |
cont. |
cont. |
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