ENGLISH 5000: INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDY

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OCT 10

History of Theory IIII

 

 

Williams, from Marxism and Literature, [1977, Canvas]

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Montrose, “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture” [1989; Canvas]

 

Critical essay summaries

1. Devon Pham

 

2. Jordan Hunt

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OCT 17

Gender I

 

 

Belsey, “Constructing the Reader / Deconstructing the Text” [1985; Canvas]

OR

Schwieckart, “Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading” [1986; Canvas]

 

Critical essay summaries

1. Nick Cook

 

2. Cullen Williams

 

3. Devon Pham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OCT 24

 

Gender II

 

 

Sedgwick, from Between Men [1985; Canvas]

OR

Wittig, “One Is not Born a Woman” [1980; Canvas]

Critical essay summaries

1. Ray Frost

 

2. Devon Pham

 

3. Jordan Hunt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OCT 31

 

 

Some Classics You Will Need to Have Read

 

 

Barthes, “The Death of the Author” [1967; Canvas]

OR

Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” [1975; Canvas]

 

Critical essay summaries

1. Nick Cook

 

2. Cullen Williams

 

3. Ray Frost

 

4. Melissa Mesch

 

 

 

 

 

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NOV 28

 

 

 

Theories in Practice II

Critical essay summaries

1. Nick Cook

 

2. Cullen Williams

 

3. Ray Frost

 

4. Melissa Mesch

 

Wicke, “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media,” [Canvas]

OR

Grady, "Vampire Culture" [1996; Canvas]

 

 

 

 

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DEC 5

 

 

Theories in Practice III

 

Castle, “Ambivalence and Ascendancy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” [Canvas]

OR

Valente, from Dracula’s Crypt [2002; Canvas]

 

Critical essay summaries

1. Jordan Hunt

 

2. Melissa Mesch