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SLN: 33019
Wed. 6-9 PM
LL 268 |
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The Ride of Dick Turpin
from William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood: A Romance [1834]
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Dan Bivona
Office: L&L 224
dbivona@asu.edu
Office hours: Wednesdays, 3-5 PM, and by appointment
Phone: 480-965-7752
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dbivona
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This course is intended to prepare you with the basic skills and knowledge to undertake the kind of research you will need to do to succeed in a graduate program in literature, either at the M.A. or the Ph.D. level. The course is required of all students in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in our department.
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Requirements
for ENG 500
Assignment |
Where it can be found |
Due Date |
% of Final Grade |
Online research assignment |
"Assignments" area of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on February 13, 11:59 PM |
20% |
Annotated bibliography |
"Assignments" area of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on April 2, 11:59 PM |
20% |
Literature review |
"Assignments" area of Blackboard |
due in the Digital Drop Box on May 5, 11:59 PM |
25% |
Presentation 1 |
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TBA |
10% |
Presentation 2 |
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TBA |
15% |
Attendance/contributions to class discussion |
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throughout |
10% |
Total |
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100% |
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Please use MLA format for all citations.
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Books
Author |
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Edition |
Altick, Richard, Ed. |
The Art of Literary Research |
Norton |
Graff, Gerald |
Clueless in Academe |
Yale UP |
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These books are currently available at the ASU Bookstore. Other required readings can be found online or on reserve.
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Date |
Topic |
Assignment |
1/16 |
Introduction |
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1/23 |
What is information? What's the difference between information literacy and information fluency or expertise?
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Finding information [Bivona]
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Critically evaluating information (reputation of online sources, proprietary databases, primary versus secondary sources, peer review, Wikipedia versus “Joe Shmoe's Website” versus Encyclopedia Britannica; copyright law) [Bivona]
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Archival research [Bivona]
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Review:
Information Literacy Competency Standards (Association of College and Research Libraries) [See also the Information Literacy page of CLAS's IT Steering Committee)] |
1/30 |
Finding Information continued
Literature and History: What is the relationship between historical "truth" and literary "truth"? |
Reading: Gerald Holden, "World Literature and World Politics: In Search of a Research Agenda." Global Society 17.3 (July 2003): 229-252. Roland Bleiker, "Learning from Art: A Reply to Holden's 'World Literature and World Politics.'" Global Society 17.4 (October 2003): 415-428. Gerald Holden, "A Reply to Bleiker's 'Reply.'" Global Society 17.4 (October 2003): 429-430. |
2/6 |
How do you find an argument worth making? |
Reading : Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe [discussion led by Bivona] |
2/13 |
Class canceled |
2/20* |
What is left to say about Defoe's Robinson Crusoe [1719]? |
Reading : Defoe, Daniel. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel De Foe. Cooke's edition. London , [1793]. Vols. 1-3 [Please read all three volumes]. Literature and Language [Eighteenth-Century Collections Online ] |
2/27 |
Class canceled |
3/5 |
Student presentations:
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Arguments in Medieval literature;
2. Arguments in Renaissance literature;
3. Arguments in 18th Century literature;
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Arguments in 19th Century literature (British and American);
5. Arguments in 20th Century literature (British, American, and Anglophone) |
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3/12 |
No Class: Spring Break |
3/19 |
What is literary research? What is “the literary”?
- Establishing “the text”
- Who invented literature?
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Reading: “Textual Criticism” in Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism [online database at www.asu.edu/lib ]
Reading : Altick and Fenstermaker, "The Spirit of Scholarship" (pp. 22-60) and “Textual Study” (pp. 62-87)
Reading: Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1869): “Sweetness and Light,” “Doing as one Likes,” “Barbarians, Philistines, Populace,” “Hebraism and Hellenism” (“Literature Online” through www.asu.edu/lib) [discussion led by Bivona] |
3/26 |
What is an author? Does language have intentions independent of the author's? Who originates the text? Do readers “author” texts? |
Reading: Altick and Fenstermaker, “Problems of Authorship” and the “Search for Origins” (pp. 88-118)
Reading: “Death of the Author” in Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text [1968]
Reading: Michel Foucault, “What Is an Author?” in Language, counter-memory, practice [1977]
Reading: David Saunders and Ian Hunter, “Lessons from the ‘Literatory.'” Critical Inquiry 17.3 (Spring 1991): 479-509 [JSTOR]
Reading: T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html) |
4/2** |
What is an author? continued |
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4/9 |
Student presentations |
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4/16 |
Student presentations |
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4/23 |
Student presentations |
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4/30 |
Reading Day (No Class) |
Monday, 5/5*** |
Literature review due |
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