ENGLISH 5000: INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDY
Fall 2008 [Sec. G01, #11697] FRANK
GRADY
M 7:00-9:30 455
LUCAS
450 Lucas 516-5592/
fgrady@umsl.edu
M 1:00-2:30, W 2:00-4:00, Th 10:30-12:00,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 abstract and theoretical, we will do
our best to remain grounded through practical criticism of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Course
documents and assignments will be posted on mygateway.umsl.edu, but the main
course page will be located at www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/F08SYLL5000.htm,
which can also be reached through my home page (www.umsl.edu/~gradyf).
Requirements: Class participation (based
on perfect attendance and regular, vigorous, and open-minded contribution to
discussion both in class and on-line; tri-weekly written responses to
discussion questions--20%); one bibliographic project
(10%); one critical essay analysis (10%); two short (5-6pp.) essays (20% each);
one take-home final exam (20%). Plagiarism on papers,
electronic or the old-fashioned kind, will mean an instant F for the
assignment, my undying disapprobation, and possible disciplinary action by the
university; please refer to this
site for further details, and please please please ask me if you
have any questions.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
·
Richter, D. The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and
Contemporary Trends. 3rd edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2007 [hence CT]
·
Bram Stoker, Dracula.
Ed. Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal. Norton Critical Edition. Norton, 1997 (1897)
·
M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. Ninth
edition.
·
Meyer, Stephanie.
Twilight. Little, Brown, 2005.
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 20 Introduction:
Arnold, “The Function of
Criticism at the Present Time,” CT
415-29
Ransom, “Criticism, Inc.” [reader]
Graff, “Taking Cover in Coverage” [reader]
Scholes, “The Rise of English in Two American Colleges”
[reader]
Menand, “Dangers Within and Without”
[reader]
MLA materials [on-line]
Dracula chs. I-IV
(9-55)
W SEP 3: Author
Guillory, from Cultural Capital,
CT 1472-84
Eliot, "Tradition
and the Individual Talent," CT
537-541
F.R. Leavis, from The Great Tradition,
CT 652-58
Foucault, “What Is
an Author?”, CT
904-14
Barthes, “The Death
of the Author,” CT, 874-77
Culler, “What is Theory?” [reader]
W SEP 10
Library research tour
Dracula chs. V-XVI
(55-193)
W SEP 17:
Text
Brooks, from My
Credo and “Irony as a Principle of Structure,” CT 797-806
Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional
Fallacy," CT 810-18
Donaldson, “Chaucer
the Pilgrim” [on-line]
Fish, “How to Recognize
a Poem When You See One,” CT 1022-30
Culler, “What Is Literature
and Does It Matter?”
[reader]
·
Richter, “Formalisms,” CT 749-60
Dracula chs. XVII-XXII
(194-262)
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
Dracula chs.
XXIII-XXVI (263-327)
Graff,
"Determinacy/Indeterminacy" [reader]
Barthes, “From Work to Text,”
CT 878-82
Derrida, “Structure, Sign and
Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” CT 915-26
De Man, “Semiology
and Rhetoric,” CT 882-93
Riquelme, "Doubling and Repetition/Realism and Closure in
Dracula" [reader]
Martinez, “Deconstructing the
Matrix” [reader]
Marx, from The German Ideology and from
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, CT 406-411
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 [plus on-line supplement]
Grady, "Vampire
Culture" [reader]
·
Richter, “Marxist
Criticism,” CT 1198-1214
·
First Essay Due Date #2
White, “The Historical Text as
Literary Artifact,” CT 1383-1397
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
Armstrong, “Some Call It
Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity,” CT
1419-32
·
Richter, “New
Historicism and Cultural Studies,” CT
1320-39 [to 1332?]
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 [and Supplement]
(full
text here , in Victorian Studies
33 [1990])
Anderson, “The Origins of National Consciousness,” CT 1815-20
·
Richter, “Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies,” CT 1753-74 [to 1764]
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
Roth, "Suddenly Sexual
Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula,"
in Dracula, 411-21
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) (full text available through JSTOR)
Sedgwick, from Between
Men, CT 1684-87
Wittig, “One Is not Born a Woman,” CT 1637-42
Butler, from Gender
Trouble [reader]
Showalter, from “Critical
Cross-Dressing…,” CT 1591-97 (plus supplements)
W NOV 12: Unconscious [I]
Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams, “The
Uncanny,” “Medusa’s Head,” CT 500-533
Bentley, “The Monster in the
Bedroom: Sexual Symbolism in …Dracula” [reader]
Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” CT 1172-80
Clover, "Her
Body/Himself" [reader]
W NOV 19: Unconscious [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]
Žižek, "Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire"
[reader] and “Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing,” CT 1181-96
W NOV 26 Thanksgiving Break: No Class
W DEC 3: Culture (?)
Meyer, Twilight
Fiske, “Popular Culture”
F DEC 12: Final Exam due
Students with disabilities who
believe that they may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to speak
to me as soon as possible and 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.
