Eng. 500 Syllabus continued

 

Full citations for E-Reserve Readings

Aug. 25

Martin Danahay, “Professional Subjects,” in Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds. Getting a Life: The Everyday uses of Autobiography. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996, pp. 351-68.

Gerald Graff, “Disliking Books at an Early Age,” David H. Richter, Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature 2nd. Ed. Boston: St. Martins, 2000, pp. 40-48.

Azar Nifisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.  New York: Random House, 2004.

Sept. 22

Lillian Robinson, “Treason Our Text,” Robin Warhol and Diane Price Herndl, eds. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1997, pp. 115-28. 

Richard D. Altick and John J. Fenstermacher, eds. from The Art of Literary Research. New York: Norton, 1993, pp. 22-60.

Sept. 29

Ian Jack, “A Choice of Orders,” Jerome J. McGann, Textual Criticism and Literary Interpretation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985, pp. 127-43.

Oct. 6

Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author,” in David H. Richter, Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature, 2nd. Ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000, pp. 253-57.

Michel Foucault, “What is an Author,” Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, eds. Critical Theory since 1965. Tallahassee: Florida State U P, 1986, pp. 138-48. 

David Miall, "The Library versus the Internet: Literary Studies Under Siege?" PMLA 116 (2001): 1405-1414.

Oct. 13

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin, Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1968, 217-51.

Marjorie Perloff, “Modernist Studies,” in Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn, eds. Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. New York: Modern Language Association, 1992, pp. 154-77.

Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, “The New Modernist Studies,” PMLA, vol. 123, no. 3 (May 2008): 737-48.

Oct. 20

Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa,” (1977), in Robert D. Hamner, ed. Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives. Washington: 3 Continents Press, 1990, pp. 110-29;

Mark Wollaeger, introduction, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900-1945. Princeton: Princeton U P, 2006, pp. 1-37 and 278-82.

Oct. 27

Seymour Chatman, Seymour Chatman, “2 1/2 Film Versions of Heart of Darkness,” Gene M. Moore, ed. Conrad on Film.  Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1997, 207-59.

Nov. 10

Antonia Navarro-Tejero, “Religion: The Manipulation of Knowledge,” in Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Gita Hariharan: Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Lewiston: Mellen , 2005), 79-98.

Susan Friedman, “Paranoia, Pollution, and Sexuality: Affiliations between E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, in Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, eds. Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2005, 245-61.

Nov. 17

Paul Jay, “Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English” PMLA vol. 116, no. 1 (Jan. 2001): 32-47.

Satya P. Mohanty, Literary Theory and the Claims of History:  Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1997, pp. 198-253.

Dec. 1

Editor’s Column, “What Can a Journal Essay Do,” PMLA, 121, 3 (May 2006): 617-26.