Course Schedule

8/23 Introduction

8/30 Historical Overview of English in Universities
Introductory Comments
Gerald Graff, "Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English"
Terry Eagleton, "The Rise of Literature"
James Berlin "Where Do English Departments Come From?"

Questions for First Response

9/6 Historical Linguistics; Cultural and Applied Linguistics
Introductory Comments
Edward Finnegan, "Linguistics" (Gibaldi 3-27)
Dennis Baron, "Language, Culture and Society" (Gibaldi, 28-52)
Claire Kramsch, "Language Acquisition and ... Learning" (Gibaldi, 53-76) Alexander Stille, "Backwards Runs French"

Further reading of interest:
Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman Fairclough, Discourse in Late Modernity
Alastair Pennycook, "Introducing Critical Applied Linguistics"
Critical Summary of Linguistics Journals

Questions for Second Response

9/13 Rhetoric and Composition
Introductory Comments
Andrea Lunsford, "Rhetoric and Composition" (Gibaldi, 77-100)
Lester Faigley, "The Linguistic Agent as Subject"
Susan Kates, "Elocution and African American Culture"

Questions for Third Response

9/20 Literary Texts and Canons
Introductory Comments
D. C. Greetham, "Textual Scholarship" (Gibaldi, 103-37)
Robert Scholes, "Canonicity and Textuality" (Gibaldi, 138-58)
John Guillory, "The Ideology of Canon Formation"
T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

Questions for Fourth Response

9/27 Textual Interpretation
Introductory Comments
Donald G. Marshall, "Literary Interpretation" (Gibaldi, 159-82)
Suggested Further Reading:
Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy"

Questions for Fifth Response

10/5 Literary History
Introductory Comments
Annabel Patterson, "Historical Scholarship" (Gibaldi, 183-200)
Cleanth Brooks, "Criticism and Literary History: Marvell's Horation Ode"
Douglas Bush, "Marvell's Horation Ode"
Cleanth Brooks, "The Limits of History and the Limits of Criticism"
Andrew Marvell, "An Horation Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

Questions for Sixth Response

10/11 Literary Theory
Introductory Comments
Jonathan Culler, "Literary Theory" (Gibaldi, 201-37)
Journals in Postmodern Theory

Questions for Seventh Response

10/18 Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies
Introductory Comments
Giles Gunn, "Interdisciplinary Studies" (Gibaldi, 239-61)
Julie Thompson Klein "Interdisciplining 'America'"
Questions for Eighth Response

10/25 First Paper Due: Critical Summary of Journals

11/1 Feminism and Gender Studies
Introductory Comments
Naomi Schor, "Feminism and Gender Studies" (Gibaldi, 262-87)
Mary Klages, "What is Feminism"
Further Reading: Materialist Feminism; Postfeminism
Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, "Anti-Capitalist Feminism"
Martha Giminez, "Materialist Feminism/Marxist Feminism "
Carole Stabile, "Feminism and the Ends of Postmodernism"
Jennifer Drake, "The (Mis)Education of Righteous Babes"

11/8 Woolf and de Beauvoir

Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex: "Introduction"
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: Ch. 1: "Biology"

Questions for Ninth Response

11/15 The Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity; Ethnic and Minority Literatures

Introductory Comments
Paula Gunn Allen, "Border Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color" (Gibaldi, 303-19)

Introductory Comments
Henry Louis Gates, "Ethnic and Minority Studies" (Gibaldi, 288-302)
Further Reading: The Social Construction of Whiteness
Ted Allen, "Summary of ... The Invention of the White Race," Part I
Ted Allen, "Summary of ... The Invention of the White Race," Part II
Meyerson and Scott, "An Interview with Theodore W. Allen"

11/`18- 11/20 No Class: Thanksgiving Vacation

11/29 Cultural Studies
Introductory Comments
David Bathrick, "Cultural Studies" (Gibaldi, 320-42)
Literature and Children's Literature

Questions for Twelfth Response

12/6 English Studies and the Public Sphere
Introductory Comments
Gerald Graff, "The Scholar in Society" (Gibaldi, 343-62)

12/13 Final Papers Due