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English  441X:  Criticism                                                                             Links:
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"Criticism is as inevitable as breathing"  --T. S. Eliot

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF READINGS:
Date Reading Assignment Writing Assignment
January 7
January 9 Culler chapter 1; Introduction to Theory and Criticism (Norton 1-7); Classical Theory and Criticism (Norton 7-8); Plato (Norton 33-48)
January 14 Culler chapter 2; Plato (Norton 49-85)
January 16 Culler chapter 3; Aristotle (Norton 86-121); Horace intro (121-123)
January 21 Culler chapter 4; Medieval Theory and Criticism (Norton 8-10); Augustine (Norton 185-196); Maimonides intro (Norton 211-213); Aquinus intro (Norton 240-242); Dante (246-252), de Pizan (263-270)
January 23 Othello I-III
January 28 Othello complete Portfolio Part IA Due
January 30 Othello vii-xlii, 133-149; other readings TBA Portfolio Part VA Due
February 4 Culler chapter 5; Renaissance and Neoclassical Theory and Criticism (Norton 10-11); Behn (Norton 388-398); Pope (Norton 438-458); Othello Criticism TBA Portfolio Part IB Due 
February 6 Romantic Theory and Criticism (Norton 11-13); Kant (Norton 499-535)
February 11 Culler chapter 6; Schiller (Norton 571-582); Wordsworth (Norton 645-668); Coleridge (Norton 668-671, 676-682); Othello Criticism TBA Portfolio Part IIIA Due
February 13 Culler chapter 7 and page 129; Marxism (Norton 13-15); Arnold (Norton 802-832); Nietzsche (Norton 870-895); Othello Criticism TBA
February 18 Culler chapter 8 and page 128; Psychoanalysis (Norton 15-17); Freud (Norton 913-929, 952-956); Othello Criticism TBA; [Recommended:  Carpenter 65-88]
February 20 Review for Examination Examination 
February 25 Formalism (Norton 17-18); Structuralism and Semiotics (Norton 20-21);  Culler 121-125; Brooks (Norton 1350-1353, 1366-1371); Wimsatt and Beardsley (Norton 1371-1377, 1387-1394); Barthes (Norton 1457-1465); Othello Criticism TBA [Recommended: Carpenter 1-36]
February 27 Reader-Response Theory (Norton 18-20); and at least two of the following: Iser (Norton 1670-1682); Fish (Norton 2067-2089); Tompkins (Norton 2126-2143); Othello Criticism TBA; [Recommended: Carpenter 135-158]  screen Othello
Mid-semester Break
March 11 Mulvey (Norton 2179-2192); Othello Criticism TBA screen "O"
March 13 Post-structuralism and Deconstruction (Norton 21-23); Culler 125-126; de Man (Norton 1509-1531); Derrida (Norton 1815-1830); Othello Criticism TBA; [Recommended: Carpenter 37-64] Portfolio Part IVA Due
March 18 Feminism and Queer Theory (Norton 23-25); Culler 126-128, 131-132; Cixous (Norton 2035-2055); Othello Criticism TBA; [Recommended: Carpenter 89-114]
March 20 Butler (Norton 2485-2501); Othello Criticism TBA Portfolio Part IIA Due
March 25 Cultural Studies and New Historicism (Norton 26-28);  Culler 129-130; Greenblatt (Norton 2250-2254); Foucault (Norton 1615-1621, 1667-1670); Othello Criticism TBA; [Recommended: Carpenter 115-135] Portfolio Part IVB Due
March 27 Greenblatt Renaissance Self-Fashioning 222-257 (handout)
April 1 Postcolonial Studies and Race and Ethnicity Studies (Norton 25-26); Culler 130-131; Bhabha (Norton 2377-2398); Othello Criticism TBA  Portfolio Part IIB Due
April 3 Said (Norton 1986-2012); Fultz (handout)
April 8 Said (Norton 1986-2012)

screen Masterpiece Theatre's Othello
April 10 Salih, Season of Migration to the North to p. 69 screen Masterpiece Theatre's Othello;  Portfolio Part IIIB Due
April 15 Salih, Season of Migration to the North complete Portfolio Part VB Due
April 17 Thomas Cartelli, Repositioning Shakespeare: national formations, postcolonial appropriations Chapter 7: "'Like Othello': Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration and Postcolonial Self-Fashioning" (handout) Portfolio Part VIA Due
Easter Break
April 22 Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
April 24 Robert Matz, "Slander, Renaissance Discourses of Sodomy, and Othello" (handout);  Moulthrop (Norton 2502-2524) Portfolio Part VIB Due
April 29 Knapp and Benn Michaels (2458-2475); Wrap up loose ends Complete Portfolio Due (with Part VII new)
April 30 @ 11 a.m. Review for Final Examination Final Examination

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