Course Schedule

8/23 Historical Overview of English in Universities

8/30 Eagleton, "Introduction: What is Literature?"; Ch 1: "The Rise of Literature"; Ch 2: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"

Further Reading:
Gerald Graff, "Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English"
Terry Eagleton, "The Rise of Literature"
James Berlin "Where Do English Departments Come From?"

First Reading Response Due

9/6 Eagleton, Ch 3: Structuralism and Semiotics

Second Reading Response Due

9/13 Eagleton, Ch 4: Poststructuralism

Third Reading Response Due

9/20 Eagleton, Ch 5: Psychoanalysis

Fourth Reading Response Due

9/27 Eagleton, Ideology, Ch. 1-3

10/4 Eagleton, Ideology, Ch. 5

Strickland: "Ideology and Subjectivity"

Fifth Reading Response Due (Saturday, October 1)

Note: Some texts for those who are interested in further reading:
Marx/Engels from The German Ideology, "Idealism and Materialism"
Marx, from Capital, Vol. I, "The Fetishism of Commodities"
Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (from Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, London: Monthly Review Press, 1971), esp. pp. 127-48; 177-86
Dave Harris' Reading Guide to Althusser's ISA Essay
Synopsis of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"

10/11 Redfield, "Aesthetic Ideology"

Strickland, "Nothing that is Human is Alien to Me"

Translations of French text from "Nothing that is Human is Alien to Me"

Sixth Reading Response Due

10/18--Eagleton, Ideology and Aesthetics, Ch. 1-2

Seventh Reading Response Due

10/25 Eagleton, Ideology and Aesthetics, Ch. 3-4

Eighth Reading Response Due

11/1 Eagleton, Ideology and Aesthetics, Ch 5-6

Ninth Reading Response Due

11/8 Eagleton, Ideology and Aesthetics, Ch 7-8

Tenth Reading Response Due

11/15 Eagleton, Ideology and Aesthetics, Ch 9-10

EleventhReading Responses Due

11/29 Bill Readings, The University in Ruins, Chapters 1-5 (pp. 1-69)

12/6 Bill Readings, The University in Ruins, Chapters 7-12 (pp. 88-193)

Of possible interest for further reading:

Strickland, "Gender, Class and the Humanities in the Corporate University"

Strickland, "Pedagogy and Public Accountability"

Twelfth Reading Response Due

12/13 Formal Essay Due