English 7790 - Schedule of Readings and Assignments (currently subject to change)

 

 

Rapaport

Rivkin & Ryan

Birns

MP

1/10

Mansfield Park

 

 

 

 

1/17

Formalism & “New” Criticism

36

Intro (3-6)
Eichenbaum (7-14)
Brooks (22-39)

 

 

1/24

Linguistics/Structuralism

38, 168-224

Intro (R&R 53-5)
de Saussure (59-71)
Propp (72-75)

 

 

1/31

Marxism

37, 225-287

Intro (643-6, 1233-4) 
Macherey (703-11) 
Benjamin (1235-1241) 
Horkheimer and Adorno (1242-5) 
de Certeau (1247-57)

 

Jan Fergus, "Power and Mansfield Park"

2/7

Psychoanalysis

44

Intro (380-96)
Freud (397-430)
Lacan (441-6) 

 

Trilling, "Mansfield Park"

2/14

Poststructuralism
(see Canvas for PDFs)

45-80

Intro (257-61)

 

 

2/21

Deconstruction

 

Derrida (278-339)

81-128

Claudia Johnson

2/28

Race/Ethnicity


PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE

 

Intro (959-63)
Lopez (964-74)
Gates (987-1004)
Morrison (1005-16)
Anzaldúa (1017-1029)

171-222

Joseph Lew, "'That Abominable Traffic': Mansfield Park and the Dynamics of Slavery"
Brian Southam "The Silence of the Bertrams"

3/6

Postcolonial Studies

58

Intro (1071-4)
Bhaba (1167-84)
Spivak (838-53)

223-260

Edward Said, "Jane Austen and Empire"

3/20

No Class – Professor at Conference

 

3/27

Gender

ANNOTATED BIB DUE

46

Intro (765-69)
Gilbert and Gubar (812-825)
Cixous (348-354)

129-170

 

4/3

Sexuality

54

Intro (885-888)
Butler (900-911)
Sedgwick (912-921)

261-280

Auerbach

4/10

New Historicism

34-5

Intro (505-507)
Greenblatt (592-620)

281-322

Duckworth

4/17

Performance Studies

 

 

134-167

Joseph Litvak, "The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park"

4/24

Narratology

65-97

 

 

 

5/1

Final Portfolio Due

 

5/4

Final Presentations