EN 923 Critical Practice 2006-7

Convenor : Dr. Cathia Jenainati

Office : H 539 (ext 73093)

Weekly breadown of the module

  1. Tuesday of week one: critical practice test

Thursday of week one, list of participants will be displayed

  1. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
  2. Read the novel and browse through the contextual documents
  3. Critical practice of Feminist theory: read Elaine Showalter’s “Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a solitary book” (p202)
  4. Critical practice of Gender criticism: read Elizabeth Le Blanc’s “The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening” (p237)
  5. Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  6. Read Samuel T Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (the 1798 and 1817 editions are supplied so pay attention to both) and browse through the contextual documents
  7. Critical Practice of Reader-response theory:
  8. Read Frances Ferguson’s “Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’”.
  9. Read Paula Treichler’s “The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis”.
  10. Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Samuel T Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”and William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  11. Read William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and browse through the contextual documents
  12. Critical Practice of Deconstruction:
  13. Read Marjorie Garber, “Hamlet: Giving up the Ghost” (p297)
  14. Read Susan Eilenberg, “Voice and Ventriloquy in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (p282)
  15. Read Patricia S. Yaeger, “A Language which Nobody Understood: Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening” (p311)
  16. Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Samuel T Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”and William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  17. Critical Practice of New Historicism:
  18. Read Karin S. Coddon, “ ‘Suche Strange Desygns’: Madness, Subjectivity, and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture” (380)
  19. Read Raimonda Modiano, “”Sameness or Difference? Historicist Readings of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’” (p187)
  20. Read Margit Stange, “Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening” (p274)
  21. Samuel T Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  22. Critical Practice of Literary Psychoanalysis
  23. Read Janet Adelman, “ ‘Man and Wife Is One Flesh’: Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body” (p256)
  24. Read Anne Williams, “An I for An Eye: ‘Spectral Persecution’ in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (p238)

WEEK 6 SUBMIT NON-ASSESSED ESSAY

  1. Samuel T Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  2. Critical Practice of Marxist theory
  3. Read Michael D. Bristol, “ ‘Funeral Bak’d-Meats’: Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet” (p348)
  4. Read David Simpson, “How Marxism Reads ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’” (p148)
  5. Critical Practice in your writing
  6. This session will bring to conclusion our detailed study of individual texts. In the first part of the seminar, we will attempt to translate the various concepts we have studied into critical thinking and critical writing strategies.
  7. The second part of the seminar will consist of a peer review session, in which students are encouraged to critique each other’s work (the non-assessed essays) and assess the extent to which evidence of critical practice has been demonstrated.
  8. Criticism in practice
  9. Read Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and “Traditional Fairy Tales” handout
  10. During the first part of the seminar, I will provide you with historical and textual contexts.
  11. In the second part of the seminar, we will engage in critical analysis of a selection of stories using the theoretical frameworks we have been studying.
  12. Criticism in practice:
  13. Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and “Traditional Fairy Tales” handout

Prepare a 15 minute presentation on one of the short stories using a critical framework we have studied on the module

WEEK 11 SUMBIT FIRST ASSESSED ESSAY

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EN 923 Critical Practice 2006-7