Unit 2: Method
Note Bene
Starting with this Unit, bring your Sims to each class.
Week 6
Tuesday, September 25
Stevens: Chapter 6: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Formalist Approaches (Read it all but focus on “Anglo-American Formalism” 142-148)- Wimsatt and Beardsley. “The Intentional Fallacy”
- Brooks.“‘‘The Heresy of Paraphrase’ from The Well-Wrought Urn”
- Brooks. “The Formalist Critics”
- You should be reading Sims consistently during this course
Thursday, September 27
- Browse and then choose one post from each of the following blogs (including video blogs) to discuss in class: Bully Bloggers, The Public Medievalist, In the Medieval Middle, TransformingDH, Feminist Killjoys, Lindsay Ellis, Wisecrack
Mini Essay 3 of 5
Due Saturday, September 29
Prompts TBA
Week 7
Tuesday, October 2
- Review Stevens Chapter 6: focus on Saussure and Structural Linguistics (137-140)
- From Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics
Thursday, October 5
- Review Stevens Chapter 6: focus on Russian Formalism 140-142, Levi-Strauss and Structuralist Anthology 149-150, and Barthes and Structuralist Semiotics 150-151, Narratology 152-154
- Barthes. “Death of the Author”
- Levi-Strauss “The Structural Study of Myth”
- Make sure you are still reading Sims!
Week 8
Tuesday, October 9
- Barthes. From Mythologies, read “Myth Today,” “Soap-powders and Detergents,” “Novels and Children” and one other essay of your choice from this collection
- Fanon. “The Fact of Blackness” and “On National Culture” Discuss earlier reading
Thursday, October 11
- Faulkner. “A Rose for Emily”
- Hurston. “Sweat”
- Hughes. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Mini Essay 4 of 5
Due Saturday, October 13
Prompts TBA
Week 9
Tuesday, October 16
- Review Stevens Chapter 6: focus on “Derrida and Deconstruction” 154-157
- Parker. "Chapter 4: Deconstruction" Derrida.
- “The end of the Book and the Beginning of Writing”
Thursday, October 18
- Ives. Sure Thing: A One-Act Play
- Swift. Part IV from Gulliver’s Travels
- Required Viewing:
- Stoppard. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
- If possible: Riley. Sorry to Bother You (2018) End of Unit assignment
Essay 2 of 3
Due Saturday, October 20
Prompts TBA
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