Texts for this course:

You will need to purchase the first five items, the fifth ($9) from the English Department Secretary. You will also need to purchase from her a ticket ($10) to the Cleveland production of THE TEMPEST.

Schedule of Readings:

(Have each week's readings done, on a first pass, as the week begins, so that you can be reviewing and rereading as we work through them.)

Week 1 (Sept. 3,5) -- Pynchon, opening of "The Crying of Lot 49"; Bohanen,"Miching Mallecho" First writing assignment

Week 2 (Sept. 8, 10, 12) --Literary Representation and the Problem of Realism. Levine, "Realism Reconsidered"; Frye, "Myth, Fiction, and Displacement"; Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher." Second writing assignment

Week 3 (Sept. 15, 17, 19) -- Meaning Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase"; Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight"; Bishop, "The Bight"; "Ashbery, "These Lacustrine Cities."

Week 4 (Sept. 22, 24, 26) -- History McGann, "Introduction to The Romantic Ideology"; Foucault, "What is an Author?"; Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote."

Weeks 5 & 6 (Sept. 29, Oct. 1, 3 & Oct. 6, 8, 10) The Tempest (performance Oct. 5) Text of the play; Orgel, "Introduction"; Skura, "The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest"; Cartelli, "Prospero in African."

Week 7 (Oct. 13, 15, 17) Devoted to work on drafts and revision of the first long paper.

FALL BREAK

Week 8 (Oct. 27, 29, 31) Hitchcock,Vertigo; Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"; Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; Keane, "A Closer Look at Scopophilia."

Weeks 9 & 10 (Nov. 3, 5, 7 & Nov. 10, 12, 14) Further work on Vertigo, then Shelly, Frankenstein; Brooks, "Godlike Science/UnHallowed Arts."

Weeks 11 & 12 (Nov. 17, 19, 21 & Nov. 24, 26) Morrison, Sula; Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"; McDowell, "The Self and the Other"; Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution."

Week 13 (Dec. 1, 3, 5) Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.

Week 14 (Dec. 8, 10) Work on drafts and revisions of the final paper.

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PROTOCOLS

Class attendance is required. Ditto with writing workshops.

Written work is due on time.

Final grade is based on attendance, participation, and quality of written work. You must have a satisfactory record in all three areas to pass the course.

The two longer essays go through several states, starting with a proposal (due Oct. 6 for the first one and Nov. 26 for the second), then a first draft (Oct. 13 and Dec. 5, respectively), followed by a final draft (Oct. 17 and Dec. 12). Between the first and final drafts, you will meet with a group of four other class members to discuss the paper and take account of their responses and suggestions. Both of the long papers should be about 8 pages, i.e. around 2000 words.