ENG 600: Introduction to Graduate Study
Tentative Schedule
Semester Overview
WEEK ONE: Sept 1
Tues: Introductions
WEEK TWO: Sept. 8
Tues:
Gerald Graff, Professing Literature, pages vii, 1-15
Falling into Theory, "Foreword," pages v-vii; "Preface," pages ix-xiii; "Falling into Theory," pages 1-13; "Part One: Why We Read," pages 15-30; "What We Have Loved, Others Will Love," pages 31-40; "Disliking Books at an Early Age," pages 40-48.
Guy Debord, Situationist International Anthology, "All the King's Men" (http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/8.kingsmen.htm)
WEEK THREE: Sept. 15
IMPORTANT! Permanent classroom change: SH 243A. SPREAD THE WORD!
Tues:
Graff, "Literature in the Old College: 1828-1876": "The Classical College," (pages 19-35, Professing Literature ); "Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English" (pages 36-51, Professing Literature).
Eagleton, "The Rise of English," Falling into Theory (pages 49-59)
WEEK FOUR: Sept. 22
Tues:
Graff, "The Early Professional Era: 1875-115: "The Investigators (1): The New University," (pages 55-64); "The Investigators (2): The Origins of Literature Departments," (pages 65-80, Professing Literature).
Graff, "The Generalist Opposition" (pages 81-97, Professing Literature); "Crisis at the Outset: 1890-1915" (pages 98-118, Professing Literature).
WEEK FIVE: Sept. 29
Tues:
Graff, "Scholars Versus Critics: 1915-1950" ("Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1930," "Groping for a Principle of Order: 1930-1950," "General education and the Pedagogy of Criticism: 1930-1950," pages 121-179, Professing Literature).
Graff, "Scholars versus Critics: 1940-1965" ("History verus Criticism: 1940-1960," "Modern Literature in the University: 1940-1960," "The Promise of American Literary Studies," pages 183-225, Professing Literature). Graff, "Rags to Riches to Routine," (pages 226-243, Professing Literature).
WEEK SIX: Oct. 6
Tues:
1 - The Humanities (and a Lot More) in Crisis: Crusoe's Footprints, pages 1-33
2 - Cultural Studies in Britain: Crusoe's Footprints, pages 34-67
WEEK SEVEN: Oct. 13
Tues:
3 - From Althusser to Cramsci: The Question of Ideology: Crusoe's Footprints, pages 68-107
4 - Class, Gender, Race Crusoe's Footprints, pages 108-165
5 - Mass Culture, Postmodernism, and Theories of Communication: Crusoe's Footprints, pages 166-198
WEEK EIGHT: Oct. 20
Tues:
To Be Announced
WEEK NINE: Oct 27
Tues:
Falling into Theory Part Two: What We Read: 121-136
Lillian S. Robinson, "Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon" (page 153 Falling into Theory)
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "What is a Minor Literature?" (page 167 Falling into Theory)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition" (page 175 Falling into Theory)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Epistomology of the Closet (page 183 Falling into Theory)
John Guillory, "The Canon as Cultural Capital" (page 218 Falling into Theory)
WEEK TEN: Nov. 3
Tues: Pedagogical Concerns
Graff, "Problems of Theory: 1965-" (pages 247-262, Professing Literature).
bell hooks, "Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy" (pages 79-84, Falling into Theory).
Paulo Freire, "The 'Banking' Concept of Education" (pages 68-78, Falling into Theory).
Robert Scholes, "A Fortunate Fall?" (pages 111-119, Falling into Theory).
Simon During, "Teaching Culture" (pages 96-102, Falling into Theory).
WEEK ELEVEN: Nov. 10
Tues: NO CLASS!! SWINE FLU DAY!!! YIKES!!!
WEEK TWELVE: Nov. 17
Tues:
Falling into Theory, Part Three: How We Read: pages 235-252
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, "Contingencies of Value" (page 147, Falling into Theory)
Stanley Fish, "How to Recognize a Poem when you See One" (page 268, Falling into Theory)
Reed Way Dasenbrock, "Do We Write the Text We Read?" (page 278, Falling into Theory)
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" (page 253, Falling)
WEEK THIRTEEN: Nov. 24
Tuesday: Furlough Day: No Class
WEEK FOURTEEN: Dec. 1
Tuesday: How to Talk about Books you Haven’t Read (All!)
*WE ARE HAVING CLASS TONIGHT! DON'T MISS OUT!!*
WEEK FIFTEEN: Dec. 8
Final Paper Discussion
WEEK SIXTEEN: FINAL EXAM WEEK: Final Projects Due on Exam Day