FALL, 1998	Sandra Zagarell
Thursday, 7:30-9:30 pm	Rice 126, x 8585
King 117	Office Hrs: M,W, 2-3:30, and by appointment

This colloquium is intended to provide a forum in which participants in the English Department's Honors Program can discuss their honors essays at various states of design. Additionally, we will examine some methods and theories currently used in the study of literature and some conventions about and formats for written literary and cultural interpretation.

I have suggestions for the first set of readings. Participants themselves will decide our reading thereafter. We'll attend and discuss several lectures given on campus this fall (I've indicated the one of which I'm aware at this point). I may also invite several members of the English Department to talk about the premises on which their work is based and how they design projects. We'll also look at some honors essays written by Department of English honors students in past years. Towards the end of the semester we'll be discussing your final prospectuses/plans for your honors essays.

Key: R = On Reserve; X = on Reserve in xerox form; HO = hand-out

Sept. 3

First meeting

 

Sept. 10

Formalisms. Read Cleanth Brooks, "Irony as a Principle of Structure" (H-O), Brooks, Keats's Sylvan Historian: History without Footnotes," In Brooks, The Well-Wrought Urn (R), Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (H-O); Albert Gelpi, "Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The Dilemma of the Woman Poet in America," in Gilbert and Gubar, eds., Shakespeare's Sisters (R); Dickinson, "My Life had Stood" (H-O)

 

Sept. 17

Open

 

Sept. 24

Open

 

Oct. 1

Jerome McGann visit: McGann will probably be meeting with students in the English Dept. on Friday, Oct. 2, in the late afternoon, so hold that time open

 

Oct. 3

McGann's public lecture, time and place TBA

 

Oct. 8

Open

 

Oct. 15

Open: perhaps have some English Dept. members come to talk about their writing processes?

 

FALL BREAK

 

Oct. 29

Read honors essays from former years: Stephanie Hunt Hegstad, "'If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit and Stare.' A Gaze of a Viewer/Reader in Psycho and To the Lighthouse" (1993); Kevin Bundy, "Language/Poetry/Politics: "Making Sense" of Contemporary Experimental Poetries" (1993) (R)

 

Nov. 5

Theresa Giron, "Reading Madness" (1996); Jeremiah Dyehouse, "Science Fiction: Rhetoric, Textuality and the Museum of Jurassic Technology" (1997) (R)

 

Nov. 12

Presentation/discussion of your projects

 

Nov. 19

Presentation/discussion of your projects

 

Dec. 3

Presentation/discussion of your projects

 

Dec. 10

Presentation/discussion of your projects

 

Dec. 16

FINAL VERSION OF PROSPECTUS DUE