English 7790 - Schedule of Readings and Assignments (currently subject to change)
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Rapaport |
Rivkin & Ryan |
Birns |
MP |
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1/10 |
Mansfield Park |
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1/17 |
Formalism & “New” Criticism |
36 |
Intro (3-6) |
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1/24 |
Linguistics/Structuralism |
38, 168-224 |
Intro (R&R 53-5) |
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1/31 |
Marxism |
37, 225-287 |
Intro (643-6, 1233-4) |
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Jan Fergus, "Power and Mansfield Park" |
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2/7 |
Psychoanalysis |
44 |
Intro (380-96) |
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Trilling, "Mansfield Park" |
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2/14 |
Poststructuralism |
45-80 |
Intro (257-61) |
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2/21 |
Deconstruction |
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Derrida (278-339) |
81-128 |
Claudia Johnson |
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2/28 |
Race/Ethnicity |
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Intro (959-63) |
171-222 |
Joseph Lew, "'That Abominable Traffic': Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of Slavery" |
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3/6 |
Postcolonial Studies |
58 |
Intro (1071-4) |
223-260 |
Edward Said, "Jane Austen and Empire" |
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3/20 |
No Class – Professor at Conference |
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3/27 |
Gender |
46 |
Intro (765-69) |
129-170 |
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4/3 |
Sexuality |
54 |
Intro (885-888) |
261-280 |
Auerbach |
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4/10 |
New Historicism |
34-5 |
Intro (505-507) |
281-322 |
Duckworth |
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4/17 |
Performance Studies |
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134-167 |
Joseph Litvak, "The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park" |
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4/24 |
Narratology |
65-97 |
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5/1 |
Final Portfolio Due |
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5/4 |
Final Presentations |
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