Course Schedule
8/29 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?"

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)
Alastair Pennycook, "Introducing Critical Applied Linguistics"
Claire Kramsch, "Language Acquisition and ... Learning" (Gibaldi, 53-76)
Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman Fairclough, Discourse in Late Modernity
Alexander Stille, "Backwards Runs French"
Critical Summary of Linguistics Journals
 

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"

9/20 Literary Texts and Canons
Introductory Comments
D. C. Greenwood, "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"

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

10/4 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"
 

 

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

10/18 Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies
Introductory Comments

Giles Gunn, "Interdisciplinary Studies" (Gibaldi, 239-61)

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 Ethnic and Minority Literatures
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"

  11/15 Paula Gunn Allen, "Border Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color" (Gibaldi, 303-19)

11/22 Cultural Studies
Introductory Comments
David Bathrick, "Cultural Studies" (Gibaldi, 320-42)
Literature and Children's Literature

11/29 No Class: Thanksgiving Vacation

12/6 Gerald Graff, "The Scholar in Society" (Gibaldi, 343-62)
12/13 Final Papers Due