Syllabus: Fall 2003 -- Feminist Literary Criticism

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Feminist Literary Criticism

Fall 2003
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W&H= Feminisms, ed. Herndl and Warhol
R = on Reserve
= in-class handout


Day	*Date*	*In-Class Activities and Handouts*	*Homework Assignments*
1	W, Aug 20, 2003	Intro to class, Policy Statement, Syllabus, Assignments, Class Home Page	Write Journal #1 -- intro to yourself and attitudes towards feminism. Knowledge of literature and literary criticism. Favorite books and movies. What courses have you taken in either women's studies or literature? Read handouts on feminism Maggie Humm Feminist Dictionary
2	F, Aug 22, 2003	DEFINITIONS Discuss different defintions of feminism Class notes on feminism Chart of kinds of feminism Link to student page defining feminism Link to My Chronologies of feminism	Read handouts on literary criticism M.H. Abrams M.K. Booker
3	M, Aug 25, 2003	Discuss definition of Literary Crticism Abrams Chart	Read handouts on feminist lit crit Steven Lynn MH Abrams H&W
4	W, Aug 27, 2003	Discuss feminist lit crit Notes on New Criticism Fem Lit Crit Abrams Chart Class Notes on FemLit Crit Link to student definitions of fem lit crit Link to AP Seminar on FLC	Read intro materials on Woolf Abyss Notes on Room Allusions in Room Read Chapter One of Room
5	F, Aug 29, 2003	VIRGNIA WOOLF: THE FIRST FEMINIST CRITIC Discuss Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own Annotated Text of Chapter One of Room Abyss Notes on Room Power Point: Visual Notes on Room Room Links My Woolf Links \| Woolf Eliot Links Intro Power Point on Woolf	Read Chapters 2-4 of Room
6	M, Sep 3	*Discuss Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own, Chaps 2-4* Links to info on women writers in Chapter	Read Chaps 5-6 of Room
7	W, Sep 5	*Discuss Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own, Chaps 5-6* Annotated Excerpt from Chapter 6 Some of My Prints on Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe
8	F, Sep 7		Read: Handout on de Beauvoir Xerox Book, Ellman, Thinking of Women
9	M, Sep 10	FEMINIST CRITIQUE Discuss First Articulations of Misogyny: De Beauvoir and Ellman Links on Images of Women Critics The Other in Science Fiction Class Notes on de Beavoir & Ellman	Write Journal 4a on DeBeauvoir and Elllman Read Xerox Book on and by Millett
10	W, Sep 12	Discuss Kate Millett Class Notes on Millett Links on Millett	Write Journal 4b on Kate Millett Read Fetterly "On the Politics of Literature" 564-73 and Russ, Anomolousness" 97-105
11	F, Sep 14	Discuss Fetterley & Russ Class Notes on Fetterely and Russ Links on Russ Links on Fetterly	Write Journal 4c on Fetterley and Russ Read Xerox Book: Gardiner, Mind Mother
12	M, Sep 17	Discuss Feminism and Psychoanlysis Notes on Feminism and Psychoanalysis-- Gardiner's Essay	Write Journal 5a on Gardiner Read Xerox book, Masden
13	W, Sep 19	Discuss Feminism and Psychoanalysis	Write Journal 5b, on Gardiner
14	F, Sep 21	Discuss Feminism and Psychoanalysis Notes on Marsden	Write Journal 5c on Marsden Read materials in xerox book on Research project
15	M, Sep 24	Discuss Feminism and Archetypal Criticism Campbell Chart for Star Wars Various Other Campbell Charts	Write Journal 6a on using Campbell chart to analyze a film or book Read Xerox book, Pearson and Pope
16	W, Sep 26	Discuss Feminism and Archetypal Criticism The Female Hero: Chart Comparing Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz	Write Journal 6b on the feminist version of the quest-- using a book or movie with a female hero as an example. Read Materials on Research Project
17	F, Sep 29	Discuss Research Project Research Project Assignment (wrong dates) Lit Crit Version of Project with Links to Dickinson examples How to Do Literary Research: Building Your Bibliography Sample (Grad student) Web Site on Amy Tan	Read "Canon", 73-5; Kolodny, 171-87; and Robinson 115-28. Write Journal 6c on ideas for research project or on archetypal crit
18	M, Oct 1	GYNOCROTICISM -- RECOVERY Discuss Rewriting Literary History: Canons, Kolodny, Robinson Class Notes on Canons Kolodny Page	Read Showalter, 269-88 Read Spaull on "Gynocriticism" 83-94 Write Journal 7a on Canons, Kolodny, Robinson
19	W, Oct 3	Discuss The British Tradition: Showalter Class Notes Showalter page	Read Gilbert and Gubar "Infection in the Sentence" 21-33 Read Spaull and Millard on "The Anxiety of Auhorship" (122-53) Write Journal 7b on Gilbert and Gubar
20	F, Oct5	Discuss Gilbert and Gubaar Class Notes G&G Page Who's Doing What: Research Projects	Read Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood" Write Journal 7c on Gilbert and Gubar Write Proposal and Initial Bibliography for Research Project
21	M, Oct 8	Discuss The American Tradition: Nina Baym Class Notes Baym page Midterm ID List	Proposal and Initial Bibliography for Final Project Due by 5:00 PM Monday, Oct 10 Review for Midterm
22	W, Oct 10	Review for Midterm Midterm Core list Class Notes on Midterm
23	F, Oct12	Take Midterm
	M-T Oct 15-16	FALL BREAK	Dickinson "My Life Had Stood" Read Taggart and Anderson on Dickinson
24	W, Oct 17	Dickinson Unit Biographical and New Criticism: Taggart & Anderson Text of "My Life Had Stood" How to Read a Critical Article Annotations of Taggart and Anderson	Read Cody and Gelpi on Dickinson Write journal 8a on Dickinson poem, Taggart and Anderson
25	F, Oct 19	Psychoanalytic Readings of Dickinson: Cody & Gelpi Template for reading criticism Notes on Anderson (1960), Cody (1971), Gelpi (1977)	Write Journal 8b on Cody
26	M, Oct 22	Psychoanalytic Readings of Dickinson: Cody & Gelpi Cont. Template for reading criticism Notes on Anderson (1960), Cody (1971), Gelpi (1977)	Write Journal 9a on Gelpi
27	W, Oct 24	Feminist Readings of Dickinson Notes on Feminist Readings Adrienne Rich (1975) Gilbert and Gubar (1979) Vivian Pollak (1984) Mary Loeffelhoertz (1991) Link to collection of feminist approaches (Rich, Bennett 86, Miller87, Gelpi, Yukman92)	Write Journal 9b on Fem critics of Dickinson
28	F, Oct 26	Early African-American Feminist Criticism W&H: "Ethnicity", 687-89 (X)Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974/ 1983) (X) Alice Walker, "Zora Neale Hurston" (1979) Class Notes	Write Journal 9c on Early African American Crit
29	M, Oct 29	African-American Feminist Criticism: Recovery X) Barbara Christian, "Trajectories of Self-Definition" (1983) Nellie McKay, "Reflections on Black Women Writers" (1987) Notes on Afican American Women Writers
30	W, Oct 31	African-American Feminist Criticism: Reassessment W&H: Showalter, "A Criticism of Our Own" Notes on Showlater	Read one of three articles in W&H Paula Gunn Allen (746 ff) Glorai Anzaldua (765 ff) Amy Ling, (776 ff)
31	F, Nov 2	Exploring Ethnicities Notes on Allen, Anzaldua and Ling	Five Summaries of Good articles Due
32	M, Nov 5	Early Lesbian Criticism W&H: Zimmerman, "What Has Never Been" pp. 76-96 Barbara Smith, "The Truth That Never Hurts," W&H: pp. 690-711	STOP HERE-- SYLLABUS NOT COMPLETED.
	W, Nov 7	More Recent Lesbian Crit: Terry Castle, "Syvia Townsend Warner and the COunterplot of Lesbian Fiction:\" 532 ff. Bonnie Zimmerman, “Lesbians Like This and Lesbians Like That” (Xerox) Women Reading: W&H: Pat Schweikert, "Reading Ourselves" pp. 525-45 Jonathan Culler, "Reading as a Woman"
33	F, Nov 9	Women Reading: W&H: Radway “The Readers and Their Romances”
34	M, Nov 12	French Feminism: W&H: "The Body," pp.331-333 and "Desire," pp. 399-403 W&H: Ann R. Jones, "Writing the Body", pp. 357-70
35	W, Nov 14	French Feminism: Cixous W&H: "The Laugh of the Medusa," pp. 334-49
36	F, Nov 16	Film and “The Gaze”: Laura Muhlvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975), W&H, pp. 432-442
37	F, Nov 17
38	M, Nov 20
	W, Nov 22 & Friday Nov 24	Thanksgiving Break
39	M, Nov 27
40	W, Nov 29
41	F, Dec 1
42	M, Dec 4
43	W, Dec 6
44	F, Dec 8
		Final Exam : 9:00 AM in Martin M-302. BRING YOUR LAPTOP Final Quiz on Mechanics Editing Exercise All links should be working on web site Final project should be up and workign Quiz on surface errors Editing exercise as well

Reconceptualization

27. W, Oct 22: French Feminism:

W&H: "The Body," pp.331-333 and "Desire," pp. 399-403
W&H: Ann R. Jones, "Writing the Body", pp. 357-70

28. F, Oct 24: French Feminism: Cixous

W&H: "The Laugh of the Medusa," pp. 334-49

Traditions of Otherness

29. M, Oct 27: African-American Feminist Criticism: Critique

W&H: "Ethnicity", 687-89; Nellie McKay, "Reflections on Black Women Writers"
R: Barbara Smith, "Toward a Black Feminst Criticism" in The New Feminist Criticism, ed. Showalter, pp 168-85.

****Summaries of at least five articles or book chapters for research paper -- or equivalent due****

30. W, Oct 29: African-American Feminist Criticism: Recovery

W&H: Barbara Christian, "Trajectories of Self-Definition," pp. 316-27
R: Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" pp. 231-43

31. F: Oct 31: African-American Feminist Criticism: Reassessment

W&H: Showalter, "A Criticism of Our Own"

32.M, Nov 3: Early Lesbian Feminist Criticism:

W&H: Zimmerman, "What Has Never Been" pp. 117-33
Stimpson, "Zero Degree Deviancy" 301-15

33. W, Nov 5: More Recent Lesbian Crit:

Barbara Smith, "The Truth That Never Hurts," W&H: pp. 690-711
R: Bonnie Zimmerman, "Lesbians Like This and Lesbians Like That" pp. 1-13 in New Lesbian Ciriticism, ed. Sally Munt

34. F, Nov 7: The Case of Woolf:

R: Jane Marcus, "Storming the Toolshed" in W&H, pp. 138- 150;
"Sapphistry:Narration as Lesbian Seduction" in VW and the Language of Patriarchy

Cultural Contexts

35. M, Nov 10: Film and The Gaze:

Laura Muhlvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975), W&H, pp. 432-442

36. W, Nov 12: Romance Novels:

Janice Radway, "Readers and Their Romances" ( 1984) W&H, 551-83

37. F, Nov 14: Colonialism I:

Gayatri Spivak, "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985), W&H, 798-81-4

38. M, Nov 17: Colonialism II:

R: Laura Donaldson, "The Miranda Complex" 13-31 in Decolonizing Feminism

39. W, Nov 19: Class:

Paul Lauter, "Caste, Class, and Canon" (1981/1987) W&H, 227-248.

40. F, Nov 21: Lab Day:

FTPing your files; site registration and META commands

41. M Nov 24: Site Presentations I
42. W, Nov 26: Site Presentations II

Thanksgiving Break

43. M, Dec 1: Overviews:

R: Showalter, Elaine"Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." (Winter 1981) In Showalter, The New Feminist Criticism, pp. 243-70.
*Gilbert and Gubar "Women's Studies and Feminist Criticism" from A Classroom Guide to Accompany The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (1985).

44. W, Dec 3: Wrap-up and Review for Final

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Engl 436/636 Feminist Literary Criticism

Reconceptualization

Traditions of Otherness

Cultural Contexts

Thanksgiving Break

Engl 436/636
Feminist Literary Criticism