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PRESENTATIONS FOR E256 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, FALL 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most sessions will feature one or more student presentations that will give you a chance to hear different perspectives on the course readings, and I will also post the written versions students send me to a special blog so those interested can review them. Your presentations will also help me determine the direction my own comments, encouraging me to respond to your ideas rather than lecture continuously. See the syllabus for the presentation requirement\u2019s value as a percentage of the course grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. On the first day of class, look over the authors or texts on our syllabus and then, next to your name on the roll sheet I will pass around, suggest several authors or texts that you might like to present on. I\u2019ll try to give you the choices you have made, to the extent that the schedule permits. Depending on class size, each student will give two or three presentations. Be aware that if you choose only very popular authors or texts (Jane Austen, Hamlet,<\/em> etc.), I may need to schedule you for something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Within a few days, check the schedule on this page to see when and on which authors and questions you are slated to present. I will complete the schedule by choosing specific question\/s to be addressed from among the full sets. You can access all author questions using the links below or by visiting the QUESTIONS PAGE<\/strong><\/a>. (They are also available from the syllabus and journals pages.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insightful responses are better than \u201canswers.\u201d I encourage you in advance to develop your remarks so that they go beyond the question at its simplest. The email consultation and \u201cadvance final draft\u201d requirement constitutes 30% of your grade for the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to do well if you prepare in advance and make a good effort, and your colleagues will be supportive. Completing the in-class component is 70% of the grade for each presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Please check the schedule below on this page to verify the current status of your in-class presentation and blog entry. Within a few days after you\u2019ve completed both, next to your name should appear the notation (Presentation completed). If you see other notations as indicated below in \u201cHow I Evaluate Presentations,\u201d please contact me by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW I EVALUATE PRESENTATIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I will judge presentations on the following grounds: did the student 1) meet with me or email me a timely advance final draft so that I can offer advice and determine the course of my own comments? and 2) seem to have put genuine effort into preparing rather than treating the presentation as a barren \u201canswer\u201d to a stale question. Students who do those two things will receive an \u201cA\u201d for the presentations requirement. I am not going to grade presentations so much on in-class factors as on how well students prepare and (again, if necessary<\/em>) follow up. I will indicate whether students have completed the requirements: (Presentation completed), (Presented in Class but no written version), (Missed Presentation), (Rescheduled Presentation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MISSED PRESENTATIONS \/ RESCHEDULING PRESENTATIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you find that you will be unable to make it to class for one of your scheduled presentations, please let me know in advance if possible. (I\u2019ll make my cell phone number available when the semester begins, though I won\u2019t post it on the Internet.) So long as you have provided me with a timely advance draft of your remarks (I usually print them out and bring them to class), I will read the presentation for you and give you partial credit for the \u201cin-class\u201d portion of the presentation grade. If you haven\u2019t provided me with a final advance draft, I will not read it in class. In such cases, rescheduling on a new author or text may be possible at my discretion and if the schedule allows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESENTATION \/ SESSION SCHEDULE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Below is a list containing four things for each session: the authors\/texts we will discuss, the number of each study question I\u2019ve chosen for discussion (or TBD if it remains to be assigned later), the presenters\u2019 names, and the color-coded status of the presentation. The hyperlinks below will take you to the relevant study questions pages — they are the same pages from which you choose questions for your journal sets. *Please note that I may specify two questions rather than one (as in \u201c12-13 combined\u201d) if I find that two short questions go together well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STUDY QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n

WEEK 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 08\/28. Course introduction: Wiki site, procedures and evaluation requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 08\/30. Plato. The Republic, <\/em>Book 7 (Norton 60-64).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 09\/04. Plato, Aristotle. Plato\u2019s The Republic, <\/em>Book 10 (64-77). Aristotle\u2019s Poetics <\/em>(88-115, read approx. first half).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 09\/06. Aristotle. Poetics<\/em> (88-115).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 09\/11. Horace. \u201cArs Poetica\u201d; (122-33). Time permitting, I\u2019ll offer a brief contrast with Longinus\u2019 On Sublimity;<\/em> (136-54), but that work isn\u2019t assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horace|Horace. Questions 7-8 combined. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 09\/13. Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Sir Philip Sidney. Augustine\u2019s On Christian Teaching<\/em> (156-62); Aquinas\u2019 Summa Theologica<\/em> (181-84); Dante\u2019s Il Convivio<\/em> (186-88) and \u201cThe Letter to Can Grande\u201d (188-90); Sidney\u2019s \u201cThe Defence of Poesy\u201d (read only 257-58, \u201cThere is no art delivered \u2026 (through) the poets only deliver a golden\u201d and 262-63, \u201cThe philosopher, therefore \u2026 (through) \u201cif they be not illuminated or figured forth by the speaking picture of poesy.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augustine. Any Question on this author. Loraine Moore. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aquinas. Any Question on this author. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dante. Any Question on this author. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 09\/18. Alexander Pope. \u201cAn Essay on Criticism\u201d (349-62).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope. Any Question on Part 1. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope. Any Question on Part 2. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 09\/20. Samuel Johnson. The Rambler, <\/em>#4 (367-71). Rasselas <\/em>(371-72). \u201cPreface\u201d to Shakespeare<\/em> (Okay to read only 379-86, starting with \u201cShakespeare with his excellencies has likewise faults…\u201d). Read 386-88 if time permits — it\u2019s optional, but an excellent statement about \u201cwit\u201d and Metaphysical poets such as John Donne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson. Any Question on Rasselas<\/em>. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson. Any Question on \u201cPreface\u201d to Shakespeare<\/em>. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 09\/23<\/strong>. (Reminder: this set includes Plato through Samuel Johnson. Please expect an email from me verifying receipt.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 09\/25. Immanuel Kant. Critique of the Power of Judgment <\/em>(414-30, \u201cAnalytic of the Beautiful\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kant. Any Question in the range of questions 4-8. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kant. Any Question in the range of questions 9-13. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 09\/27. Immanuel Kant. Critique of the Power of Judgment <\/em>(430-50 \u201cAnalytic of the Sublime\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kant. Any Question in the range of questions 14-19. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kant. Any Question in the range of questions 20-26. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 10\/02. Georg W.F. Hegel. Phenomenology of Spirit <\/em>(541-47, \u201cThe Master-Slave Dialectic\u201d). Read Lectures on Fine Art <\/em>(547-55) if time permits — it\u2019s optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegel. Questions 1-2 combined. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegel. Questions 3-5 combined. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 10\/04. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 <\/em>(651-55); The German Ideology <\/em>(655-56); The Communist Manifesto <\/em>(657-60); Grundrisse <\/em>(661-62); \u201cPreface\u201d to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy <\/em>(662-63).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marx and Engels. Any question\/s on Economic and Phil. Manuscripts of 1844<\/em>. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marx and Engels. Any question\/s on The Communist Manifesto<\/em>. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 7<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 10\/09. William Wordsworth. \u201cPreface to Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems<\/em>\u201c (559-79).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wordsworth. Choice of one question from 1-4. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wordsworth. Choice of one question from 5-7. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wordsworth. Choice of one question from 8-11. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 10\/11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Biographia Literaria<\/em> (584-91).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coleridge. Choice of one question from 5-7. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coleridge. Choice of one question from 8-11. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 8<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 10\/16. Charles Baudelaire. The Painter of Modern Life<\/em> (680-90).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baudelaire. Choice of one question from 1-5. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baudelaire. Choice of one question from 6-9. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 10\/18. Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater. Arnold\u2019s \u201cThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time\u201d (695-714). Pater\u2019s \u201cConclusion\u201d to Studies in the History of the Renaissance<\/em> (728-30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnold. Choice of one question from 1-10. STUDENT. (Presentation Rescheduled.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pater. Choice of one question from 1-4. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 10\/21<\/strong>. (Reminder: this set includes Kant through Pater).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 10\/23. Oscar Wilde. \u201cThe Decay of Lying\u201d (790-94); \u201cThe Critic as Artist\u201d (794-807).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilde. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilde. Choice of Questions 4-9. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 10\/25. Friedrich Nietzsche. \u201cOn Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense\u201d (764-74).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nietzsche. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nietzsche. Choice of Questions 4-7. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nietzsche. Choice of Questions 8-11. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 10\/30. Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams<\/em> (814-24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freud. Choice of Questions 1-2. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freud. Question 4. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freud. Question 5. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 11\/01. Ferdinand de Saussure. Course in General Linguistics<\/em> (850-66).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Saussure. Choice of Questions 1-4. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Saussure. Choice of Questions 5-8. STUDENT. (No Presentation.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 11<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 11\/06. Cleanth Brooks. The Well Wrought Urn<\/em> (1217-29, \u201cThe Heresy of Paraphrase\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks. Choice of Questions 1-5. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks. Choice of Questions 6-9. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 11\/08. Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss. Triste Tropiques<\/em> (1277-86, Ch. 28. \u201cA Writing Lesson\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e9vi-Strauss. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e9vi-Strauss. Choice of Questions 4-6. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 12<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 11\/13. Roland Barthes. Mythologies<\/em> (1320-21 \u201cPhotography and Electoral Appeal\u201d); \u201cThe Death of the Author\u201d (1322-26); \u201cFrom Work to Text\u201d (1326-31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barthes. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barthes. Choice of Questions 4-9. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barthes. Choice of Questions 10-18. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 11\/15. Michel Foucault. \u201cWhat Is an Author?\u201d (1475-90); optional: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison<\/em> (1490-1502).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foucault. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foucault. Choice of Questions 4-5. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 11\/18<\/strong>. (Reminder: this set includes Wilde through Foucault).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 13<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 11\/20. J. L. Austin. \u201cPerformative Utterances\u201d (1289-1301).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin. Choice of Questions 4-6. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 11\/22. No Class, Thanksgiving Holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PARAGRAPH DESCRIBING TOPIC AND ARGUMENT FOR PAPER. (Due by email Monday 11\/26.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 14<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 11\/27. Frantz Fanon and Ngugi Wa Thiong\u2019o, et al. Fanon\u2019s The Wretched of the Earth<\/em> (1440-46). Thiong\u2019o\u2019s \u201cOn the Abolition of the English Department\u201d (1995-2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fanon. Choice of Any Fanon Question. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ngugi. Choice of Any Ngugi Question. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 11\/29. Edward W. Said. Orientalism<\/em> (1866-88, \u201cIntroduction\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said. Choice of Questions 4-6. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEEK 15<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tu. 12\/04. Simone de Beauvoir. The Second Sex<\/em> (1265-73, Ch. XI. \u201cMyth and Reality\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauvoir. Choice of Questions 1-2. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauvoir. Choice of Questions 3-4. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Th. 12\/06. Judith Butler. Gender Trouble<\/em> (2540-53, from Ch. 3. \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler. Choice of Questions 1-3. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler. Choice of Questions 4-6. STUDENT. (Presentation Completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOURNAL SET 4 DUE BY EMAIL EXAM DAY<\/strong>. (Reminder: this set includes Austin through Butler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINALS WEEK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Final Exam Date: Wednesday Dec 12, 10:45-1:15 p.m. Paper Due by Email Sunday, Dec. 17. I must turn in grades by Tuesday, January 1, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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