Literary Theory & Writing

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Permalink for this paragraph 0 We will discuss:

1. Expectations


2. Assignments


3. Peer-designed syllabus


4. Individual writing contracts


5. Portfolio grading system


6. Writing lab policies & expections



7. Permalink for this paragraph 0 Course technologies:
   
   

   
   
   1. WordPress
   
   
   2. Google Docs
   
   

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Permalink for this paragraph 0 We'll discuss:

1. Gerald Graff, "Disliking Books at an Early Age"


2. Texts and Contexts (TaC); Chapter 1; "An Introduction, Theoretically"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 You should also sign up for your peer-led class!

Permalink for this paragraph 0 We'll discuss:

1. Zotero


2. Resources (both print and electronic) for literary research


3. Craft of Research (CoR), “From Topics to Questions,” “From Questions to a Problem,” 29-67.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 You'll also have some time to work on your Writing Contracts

Permalink for this paragraph 0 We'll discuss:

1. TAC, Chapter 2, "Critical Worlds: A Selective Tour"


2. We'll also discuss in more detail the papers we'll be writing through the semester, in preparation for drafting course writing contracts.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 We'll discuss:

1. TaC, Chapter 3, "Unifying the Work: New Criticism"


2. William Blake
   
   
   
   • "The Little Black Boy"
   
   
   • "Holy Thursday"
   
   
   • "The Lamb"
   
   
   • "The Chimney Sweeper"
   
   
   • "The Tyger"
   
   
   • "London"

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Permalink for this paragraph 0 We will spend today's class working on your close readings in the lab.

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Permalink for this paragraph 0 DUE: Have a draft of your close readings ready to work on in your writing groups. You should arrange things ahead of time within your group so that everyone has access to the entire group's papers: whether than means bringing enough hard copies for everyone in the group or sharing papers via Google Docs and accessing them on laptops.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 We'll work as a class to determine the agenda for the remaining semester. Come prepared to discuss what you think we should cover in the next weeks of class. Before class ends we should have at least the next three weeks of the semester mapped out.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 In T&C, Chapter 4, "Creating the Text: Reader-Response Criticism"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 By Thursday night, email Prof. Cordell the song you want to talk about in class.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Today in class we'll discuss:

1. T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"


2. CoR, "Making Claims" and "Assembling Reasons and Evidence"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For class:

1. Watch Hitchcock's Vertigo


2. Read Holland, "Hitchcock's Vertigo: One Viewer's Viewing"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Read T&C, Chapter 8, "Gendering the Text"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For today's class, read Craft of Research on "Revising Style"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For class,

1. Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman at the Store"


2. Bruce Harding, "Mansfield, Misogyny and Murder"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For today's class, read Herman Melville's Typee through the end.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Read T&C, Chapter 6, "Connecting the Text: Varieties of Historical Criticism"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For class, please read:

1. "Four Killed in Clear Lake Plane Crash"


2. "Tradition and the Individual Apple Pie"


3. Refer also to Understanding American Pie

Permalink for this paragraph 0 We will be off the rest of this week while Prof. Cordell attends a conference, so we will have a class discussion in the lab. Please read the sections on "Acknowledgment and Response" and "Problem Statements" in Craft of Research.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For today's class, read Herman Melville's Typee through chapter 18.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Read Caleb Crain, "Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville's Novels," pages 25-33 and 41

Permalink for this paragraph 0 Read Alex Calder, ""The Thrice Mysterious Taboo": Melville's Typee and the Perception of Culture"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For today, watch:

• The Princess and the Frog

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• Vanessa Matyas, Tale as Old as Time: A Textual Analysis of Race and Gender in Disney Princess Films, pages 13-18 and 37-45.

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For today's class, please read:

1. Introduction (pg. 3-20) to Wayne C. Booth's The Company We Keep about Ethical Criticism


2. Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinder-Box"

Permalink for this paragraph 0 For today, please read Craft of Argument, "Revising Your Organization and Argument" (203-212), "Introductions and Conclusions" (232-248), and "Revising Style" (249-269).