Literary Criticism -- English 509
Dr Kevin Binfield
Fall 2003

Calendar of Readings

Unless otherwise noted, all readings are in Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan, eds., Literary Criticism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).


John William Waterhouse, "Consulting the Oracle,"  1884, London, Tate Modern.
Aug 20 Introduction
Aug 25 Formalism: Rivkin/Ryan 3-8, Eichenbaum 8-17, Shklovsky 17-24
Aug 27 Formalism: Propp 28-32, Bakhtin 32-45, Bakhtin 45-52
Sep 01 LABOR DAY
Sep 03 Formalism: Brooks 52-58, Brooks 58-69, Donne 69-72
Sep 08 Structuralism: Culler 73-76, Saussure 76-91, Jakobson 91-96, Levi-Strauss 101-19
Sep 10 Psychoanalysis: Rivkin/Ryan 119-28, Freud 128-51
Sep 15 Psychoanalysis: Lacan 178-84, Lacan 184-90, Lacan 190-206
Sep 17 Psychoanalysis: Deleuze/Guattari 206-15, Girard 225-30
Sep 22 Marxism: Rivkin/Ryan 231-43, Hegel 243-47, Marx 250-56, Marx 256-62
Sep 24 Marxism: Gramsci 277-78, Benjamin 282-90
Sep 29 Marxism: Lukacs 290-94, Althusser 294-305
Oct 01 Marxism: Zizek 312-26, Dobnik 328-32 
Oct 08 Post-Structuralism: Nietzsche 358-62, Heidegger 368-70, Heidegger 370-72
Oct 10 Post-Structuralism: Foucault 377-85, Derrida 385-408
Oct 15 Post-Structuralism: 
Oct 17 Post-Structuralism:
Oct 22 Feminism: Fetterly 561-70, Gilbert/Gubar 596-612
Oct 24 Feminism: Irigaray 570-74, Cixous 578-85
Oct 29 Gender and Queer Theory: Weeks 692-96, Sedgwick 696-713
Oct 31 Gender and Queer Theory: Butler 722-31, Chodorow 769-77
Nov 05 Historicisms: Montrose 777-86, Greenblatt 786-804
Nov 07 Historicisms: Sinfield 804-27, Sundquist 827-50
Nov 12 Ethnic Studies/Poco: DuBois 868-73, Gates 903-23
Nov 14 Ethnic Studies/Poco: Brantlinger 856-68, Anazulda 887-903
Nov 19 Ethnic Studies/Poco: Said 873-87, Bhabha 936-45
Nov 21 Cultural Studies Bourdieu 1028-37, Horkheimer/Adorno 1037-42
Nov 26 Cultural Studies: Hall 1050-65, Bordo 1099-1115
Nov 28 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
Dec 01 
Dec 03