Schedule Changes:

• Writing Workshop moved to March 7 (bring two copies)

• Term Paper due finals week--bring to my office or leave in my mailbox by 7pm Wednesday, March 14.

• Readings for 10th week and take home final cancelled

Download readings missing from Richter 2nd Edition (all in PDF): 

Week 2: Saussure, Barthes

Week 4: Althusser, Bourdieu

Week 5: Nussbaum

Week 8: Jameson-Ahmad

Click here for additional Week 1 Reading ("The Rise of English" in Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction) (large pdf file)
 

Description

Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 441. Introduction to bibliography, research techniques, professional essay style, and basic critical approaches.

This course is a basic introduction to graduate studies in English, including bibliography and research, writing and essay style, and methodologies and critical theory. 

Reading List

The following texts are required for this class:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey: A Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 2004. [Must use this edition]

Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Fourth Edition. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford, 2000.

Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987.

Richter, David. The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. Second Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin, 1998.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Suzanne Wofford. New York: Bedford/St. Martin, 1994.

Other texts to be made available online.