ENGLISH
5000: INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDY
Fall 2006 [Sec. G01, #48200] F.
GRADY
W
63 University Center 516-5592
M
and by appointment
A survey of
the approaches to literary study that have flourished in the academy over the
last half-century, including New Criticism, structuralism, semiotics, reception
theory, marxism, feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, gender criticism,
new historicism, and other poststructuralist modes of address. Attention will also be paid to topics such as
the nature of literary history, contemporary institutional and professional
issues, and proper bibliographic and textual practice. Though much of the reading will be
theoretical, we will do our best to remain grounded through practical criticism
of two primary texts, Stoker's Dracula
and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath‘s Tale..
Course documents and assignments will be
posted on mygateway.umsl.edu, but the main course page will be located at www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/5000F06SYLL.htm
, which can also be reached through my home
page(www.umsl.edu/~gradyf).
Requirements: Class participation (based on perfect attendance; regular,
vigorous, and open-minded contribution to discussion; written responses to discussion questions--25%); one bibliographic project (10%); two short (5-6pp.) essays (20% each); one
take-home final exam (25%).
REQUIRED TEXTS:
·
Richter, D. The
Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. 3rd
edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007 [hence CT]
·
Chaucer, G. The
Wife of Bath. Ed. Beidler. Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996 [hence WB]
·
Bram Stoker, Dracula. Ed. Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal. Norton
Critical Edition. Norton, 1997 (1897)
·
M.H. Abrams, A
Glossary of Literary Terms. Sixth edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanich College Publishers, 1993
RECOMMENDED: Possession of or regular access to a
style manual, either the MLA Handbook of
Writers of Research Papers or The
Chicago Manual of Style, and a good dictionary.
Tentative SYLLABUS:_____________________________
W AUG 23 Introduction:
Readings, Research, Rumors, Regrets
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Graff, “Taking Cover in Coverage”
[reader]
Guillory, from Cultural Capital, CT 1472-84
Culler, Literary Theory 1-41 [reader]
Menand, “Dangers Within and Without” [reader]
Eliot, "Tradition
and the Individual Talent," CT
537-541
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W SEP 6: Primary
Texts
Dracula
Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
[Library research tour]
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Freud, from The
Interpretation of Dreams, “The Uncanny,” “Medusa’s Head,” CT 500-533
Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” CT 1172-80
Bentley, “The Monster in the Bedroom: Sexual Symbolism
in …Dracula” [reader]
Roth, "Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula," in Dracula, 411-21
Holland, “Meaning as Transformation: The
Wife of Bath’s Tale” [reader]
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W SEP 20: Psychoanalysis
II
Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function
of the I…”, CT 1123-8
Foster, “’The little children can be bitten’: A Hunger
for Dracula” [reader]
Louise O.
Fradenburg, “’Fulfild of fairye’: The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of
Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” WB 205-220
Žižek,
"Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire" [reader]
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W
SEP 27: Formalism & Reader-Response
Criticism
Brooks, from
My Credo and “Irony as a Principle of
Structure,” CT 797-806
Crane, from
“The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks,” CT
807-10
Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional
Fallacy," CT 810-18
Donaldson,
“Chaucer the Pilgrim” [reader]
Fish, “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One,” CT 1022-30
Phelan, from Data,
Danda and Disagreement, CT
1031-34
·
Richter, “Formalisms,” CT 749-60
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W OCT 4: Structuralism and
Semiotics
Saussure, Selections from Course in General Linguistics,
CT 842-49
Frye, “The Archetypes of Literature,” CT 691-701
Barthes,
"The World of Wrestling" [reader]; “Striptease,” “The Structuralist
Activity,” CT 869-74
Levi-Strauss,
“The Structural Study of Myth,” CT
860-68
Eco, “The
Myth of Superman,” CT 950-61
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Graff, "Determinacy/Indeterminacy" [reader]
Barthes, “From Work to Text,” CT 878-82
Riquelme,
"Doubling and Repetition/Realism and Closure in Dracula" [reader]
H. Marshall
Leicester, Jr., “’My bed was ful of verray blood’: Subject, Dream, and Rape in
the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” WB
234-54
Martinez, “Deconstructing the Matrix” [reader]
Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of
the Human Sciences,” CT 915-26
F OCT 13 First Essay Due (group A)
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Gilbert and
Gubar, from The Madwoman in the Attic,
CT 1532-44
Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own, CT 596-601, 607-10
De Beauvoir, from The Second Sex, CT 673-78
Fetterly, Introduction to The Resisting Reader, CT 1035-42
Culler, “Reading as a Woman,” CT 1579-90
Showalter, from “Critical Cross-Dressing…,” CT
1591-97
F OCT 20 First Essay Due (group 1)
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W OCT 25: Gender Studies
Elaine Tuttle
Hansen, “’Of his love daungerous to me’: Liberation, Subversion, and Domestic
Violence in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” WB 273-88
Craft,
"'Kiss Me with Those Red Lips': Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula," in Dracula 444-59 (plus on-line supplements: part 1 part 2 part 3
Sedgwick, from Between
Men, CT 1684-87
Wittig, “One Is not Born a Woman,” CT 1637-42
Butler,
from Gender Trouble [reader]
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Althusser, from Ideology
and Ideological State Apparatuses, CT
1263-72
Williams, from Marxism
and Literature, CT 1272-90
Moretti, "A Capital Dracula," in Dracula 431-44
Finke, “’All
is for to selle’: Breeding Capital in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” WB 169-88
Grady, "Vampire Culture" [reader]
·
Richter, “Marxist Criticism,” CT 1198-1214
·
Murfin, “Marxist Criticism and the Wife of Bath,” WB 155-66
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Patterson,
“’Experience woot well it is noght so’: Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness
in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” WB
133-54
Schaffer,
"'A Wilde Desire Took Me': The Homoerotic History of Dracula,"
Dracula 470-82 (plus on-line
supplements: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5)
(full text available here))
Grady,
"Gower's Boat, Richard's Barge, and
the True Story of the Confessio Amantis: Text and Gloss"
(reader)
Greenblatt, Introduction to The
Power of Forms and “King Lear and
Harsnett’s ‘Devil-Fiction’,” CT
1443-47
Lentricchia, from Ariel and the
Police, CT 1448-52
White, “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact,” CT 1383-1397
·
Murfin, “What is the New Historicism?”, WB 115-31
·
Richter, “New Historicism and Cultural Studies,” CT 1320-39 [ to 1332?]
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W NOV 15: Postcolonial Critisicm
Appiah, "Race"
[reader]
Spivak,
“Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism,” CT 1837-49
Said, from Orientalism,
CT 1801-14
Arata,
"The Occidental Tourist: Dracula
and the Anxiety of Reverse
Colonization," in Dracula 462-70
Supplement
(full text here)
Anderson,
“The Origins of National Consciousness,” CT
1815-20
·
Richter, “Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies,” CT 1753-74 [to 1764]
F NOV 17 Second Essay Due (group A)
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W NOV 23
Thanksgiving Break: No Class
W NOV 23 Second Essay Due (group 1)
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W NOV 29: Cultural
Studies
Fiske, “Popular Culture” [reader]
Morris, “Things to Do with Shopping Centres,” 1452-71
Clover, "Her Body/Himself" [reader]
Radway, " "The Institutional Matrix of
Romance" [reader]
Bourdieu, from Distinction,
CT 1398-1403
F DEC 1 Bibliographic
Projects Due
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W DEC 6: What’s
Left?
F DEC 15 Final Exams Due
Students with disabilities who believe that they may need accommodations
in this class are encouraged to contact the Disability
Access Services Office in 144 Millennium Student Center at 516-6554 as soon as possible to ensure that such accommodations are arranged in a
timely fashion.