Date |
Topic |
Assignment |
8/25 |
Introduction to the course |
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9/1 |
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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9/8 |
Faculty presentations:
- Dan Bivona (Victorian Literature and Culture) [4:40 pm]
- Heather Maring (Old English/Linguistics) [5:30 pm]
How do you find an argument worth making? |
- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
- Read: Second half of Graff.
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9/15 |
Faculty presentations:
- Mark Lussier (Romantics) [4:40 pm]
- Beth Tobin (Eighteenth Century British Literature and Culture)
[5:30 pm]
How do you find an argument worth making? cont.
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- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
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9/22* |
Faculty presentations:
- Gregory Castle (Modernism/Postcolonial/Irish Studies) [4:40 pm]
- Eddie Mallot (Postcolonial/Contemporary British Drama) [5:30 pm]
Annotated Bibliography |
- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
- Read: Harner
- Begin work on a theoretical school: See especially the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism [online through lib.asu.edu]
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9/29 |
Faculty presentations:
- Rosalynn Voaden (Medieval Studies) [4:40 pm]
- Robert Sturges (Queer Theory/Medieval and Renaissance Studies) [5:30 pm]
Bibliographic Essay |
- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
- Work on your theoretical school (workshop)
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10/6 |
Faculty presentations:
- Richard Newhauser (Medieval Studies) [4:40 pm]
- Joe Lockard (Nineteenth Century American Studies) [5:30 pm]
Bibliographic Essay |
- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
- Work on your theoretical school (workshop)
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10/13 |
Faculty presentations:
- Simon Ortiz (Native American Studies) [4:40 pm]
- Brad Ryner (Renaissance Studies) [5:30 pm]
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- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
- Work on your theoretical school (workshop)
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10/20 |
Faculty presentations:
- Cora Fox (Renaissance) [4:40 pm]
- Ron Broglio (Romantics) [5:30 pm]
What is literary research? What is “the literary”?
- Establishing “the text”
- Who invented literature?
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- Read: Faculty writings (Blackboard)
- Read: “Textual Criticism” in Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism [online database at http://lib.asu.edu]
- Read: Altick, “Textual Study” (pp. 62-87)
- Read: Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1869): “Sweetness and Light,” “Doing as one Likes,” “Barbarians, Philistines, Populace,” “Hebraism and Hellenism” (“Literature Online” through http://lib.asu.edu)
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10/27 |
Faculty presentations:
- Jay Boyer (Film History) [4:40 pm]
- Deb Clarke (Modern American) [5:30 pm]
1) What is an author? Does language have intentions independent of the author's? Who originates the text? Do readers “author” texts?
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- Read: Altick, “Problems of Authorship” and the “Search for Origins” (pp. 88-118)
- Read: “Death of the Author” in Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text [1968]
- Read: Michel Foucault, “What Is an Author?” in Language, counter-memory, practice [1977]
- Read: David Saunders and Ian Hunter, “Lessons from the ‘Literatory.'” Critical Inquiry 17.3 (Spring 1991): 479-509 [JSTOR]
- Read: T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html)
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11/3** |
1) What is an author? cont.
2) Student critical theory presentations |
- Presentations: To be scheduled
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11/10 |
1) What is an author? continued
2) Student critical theory presentations |
- Presentations: To be scheduled
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11/17*** |
1) What is English Studies?
2) Student presentations (annotated bibliographies)
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- Read: Pope
- Presentations: To be scheduled
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11/24 |
No Class: Thanksgiving Holiday |
12/1 |
1) What is English Studies?
2) Student presentations (annotated bibliographies) |
- Presentations: To be scheduled
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12/8**** |
Reading Day (No Class) |
* Research assignment due
**Critical theory annotated bibliography due
***Annotated bibliography due
****Bibliographic essay due |
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History of the Profession:
Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Scholes, Robert. The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1998. |