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Eng. 500 Syllabus continued
Oct. 20 Finish discussion of Heart of Darkness and read Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, Marxist Theory, pp. 156-70 and Postcolonial Theory, 192-202 1. J. Hillis Miller, “Heart of Darkness, Revisited,” pp. 206-20 2. Brook Thomas, “Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing time. . . .” pp. 239-57, 3. Patrick Brantlinger, “Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?” 277-298 And on E-Reserve, 4. Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa,” (1977), in Robert D. Hamner, ed. Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1990, pp. 110-29; 5. Mark Wollaeger, introduction, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900-1945. Princeton: Princeton U P, 2006, pp. 1-37 and 278-82.
Team report 4: Current scholarship on Joseph Conrad (1990 to 2008).
Oct. 27: Paper 2 due The Turn to Literary Theory Read: Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, ch. 5-6, Psychoanalytic criticism, pp. 96-118 and Feminist theory, pp. 139-71 Everyone in Murfin, Joanna M. Smith, “Too Beautiful Altogether: Ideologies of Gender and Empire . . . ,” 169-84; and on E-Reserve: 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. 3: Read: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1-156
Nov. 10 Finish, The God of Small Things, 157-321 an And E-Reserve: 1. 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 Press, 2005), 79-98 2. 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: Read: Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, ch. 13, Ecocriticism, 248-269 Read on E-Reserve: 1. Satya P. Mohanty, Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1997, pp. 198-253. 2. Paul Jay, “Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English” PMLA vol. 116, no. 1 (Jan. 2001): 32-47.
Nov. 24 Prospectus and annotated bibliography due by 7:00 pm 11/24 Our class will not meet this week; so please Email me your prospectus: Address: Nancy.Paxton@nau.edu
Thanksgiving Vacation Nov. 27-30
Dec. 1 Oral presentations on final projects (1-2 panels; 3 each) Please read: 1. Editor’s Column, “What Can a Journal Essay Do,” PMLA, 121, 3 (May 2006): 617-26.
Dec. 8 Final projects due Oral presentations on final papers (3 panels; 3 each)
Topics and Procedures for Team Projects
Team Project (10 %): This project involves a self-selected team of 2-4 people from the class. You will be asked to volunteer for one of the questions posed on the syllabus for this class and, as a group, to do the following:
1. Meet and decide how you will address the question and how to divide the work fairly. 2. Plan your class presentation, including a written outline of what you as a team will present (give outline to me) 3. For the scheduled class, prepare and present a short oral summary of how your team understood the question and limited the scope, how you defined your research strategy, what sources you consulted, and which texts you liked best (5 min. total) 4. prepare a short oral summary and qualitative evaluation of 1-2 most useful works your team found (20 min. total). Different members may present different components orally. 5. prepare a handout to distribute to the class that shares the results of your research.
You are expected to divide the work evenly. I encourage you to collaborate closely and creatively in planning and presenting your report. If you wish, you may use power point or some other media. Your assigned time limit for the whole tream is a maximum of 20 minutes (including any media glitches). The grade is awarded to the team. Be prepared to select partners/topics by Sept. 10.
Sept. 15: Report 1: Shakespeare in Context: 1. Recent guides on Elizabethan drama; including A. M. Nagler, Shakespeare’s Stage (New Haven: Yale U P, 1981); M. M. Reese, Shakespeare: His World and His Work (1980). 2. New Historical studies of Shakespeare including: Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, eds. Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism (Manchester U P, 1994); John Drakakis, ed. Alternative Shakespeares (Routledge, 1985); Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Berkeley: U of Calif. Press, 1991); Graham Holderness, The Shakepseare Myth (Manchester U P, 1988); Hugh Grady, That Materialist Shakespeare (Oxford U P, 1994). 3. Essays by David Lindley, John Gilles, or Andrew Gurr or from bibliography in Graff and Phelan ed. of The Tempest 4. web sources
Sept. 29: Report 2: Uses and Abuses of Biographical Writing on Keats 1. relevant guides (MLA, Cambridge, etc.) and review essays 2. review literary journals on Keats. 3. MLA bibliography for reviews of biographies of Keats. 4. Cline on line sources (Lion, ABEL) 5. Select 1-2 for summary
Oct. 13: Report 3: New perspectives on Modernism, 1990-2008 1. Guides (including: Michael Levenson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism; Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism 1890-1930; Peter Nicholls, Modernism: A Literary Guide) 2. Dictionary of the History of Ideas 3. electronic sources 4. class bibliography
Oct. 20: Report 4: Current scholarship on Joseph Conrad (1990 to 2008). 1. Bruce Teets, ed. Joseph Conrad: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1990; J. P. Stape, The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1996, 2. Ian Watts, Conrad in the Nineteeth century and other biographies 3. Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, Oxford Reader’s Companion to Conrad. Oxford U P, 2000; 4. PMLA annual bibliography; Modernism/Modernity 5. Journals: The Conradian: Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society; Conradiana: Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies; Joseph Conrad Today
Nov. 3: Report 5 Feminist Theory/ Queer Theory/ in international frame 1. Susan Friedman, Mapping: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter Princeton: Princeton U P, 1998 ; Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Duke: Duke U P, 2003; 2. Judith Butler, Bodies that MatterLondon: Routledge, 1993; Butler, Undoing Gender. London: Routledge, 2004 3. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita ed. Women Writing in India: The Twentieth Century, vol 2, New Delhi: Oxford U P, 1993 (Feminist Press in US); Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History .New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1990. 4. See also ch. 1, and bibliography of 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 Press, 2005), 79-98
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