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

1. Notes!