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4/2

Course Introduction; Richter 1-8

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4/4

Plato 25-46

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4/9

Aristotle 55-81

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4/11

Aristotle 55-81

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4/16

Horace 82-94

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4/18

Longinus 95-108

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4/23

Johnson 210-230

First Informal Paper Due (“imitation”)

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4/25

Hume 231-244

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4/30

Kant 247-274

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5/2

Wordsworth 304-318; Coleridge 319-329

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5/7

Arnold 412-434; Pater (handout)

Second Informal Paper Due (“genius”)

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5/9

Eliot 534-541; Woolf 596-610

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5/14

Marx 397-409; (optional) Marxism 1198-1214

Take-home Midterm Due (at beginning of class)

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5/16

Freud 514-532; (optional) Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism 1106-1122

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5/21

Nietzsche, 435-459; (optional) Structuralism and Deconstruction 819-837

Third Informal Paper Due (“constructivism”)

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5/23

Derrida 914-926

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5/28

Foucault 1357-1366, "The Means of Correct Training" from Discipline and Punish (online);
(optional) New Historicism and Cultural Studies 1320-1339

Th

5/30

Baym 1519-1530; (optional) Feminist Criticism 1502-1516

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6/4

Haraway 1966-1976;
(optional) Gender Studies and Queer Theory 1611-1627

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6/6

Said (excerpt from Orientalism in Richter); de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar (online);
(optional) Postcolonialism and Ethnic Studies 1753-1774;

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6/11

FINAL
10:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Final Paper Due