ENGLISH 601-01: ENGLISH STUDIES: CONTENT, METHODS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

ENGLISH 601-01: ENGLISH STUDIES: CONTENT, METHODS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

FALL 2001

INSTRUCTOR

Kelley Griffith Office: 203 McIver Office hours: TR1-2, W1-3

Telephone: 334-5866 (office), 274-4184 (home)

E-mail: kelley_griffith@uncg.edu

REQUIRED TEXTS

James Harner, Literary Research Guide, 3^rd edition, 1998

Thomas Mann. The Oxford Guide to Library Research, 1998

Donald Keesey. Contexts for Criticism, 3^rd ed., 1998

William Shakespeare. The Tempest

RECOMMENDED TEXT

Joseph Gibaldi. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5^th edition, 1995

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADES

Your work for this course consists of the readings, class presentations, leadership in discussions, and various writing assignments. Due dates are in the Schedule of Assignments below.

The written work consists of ten bibliographical exercises (most relating to material in Harner), a textual exercise on Hamlet; five short papers (three related to literary theory, one to archival material, and one to pedagogy), and a final paper (roughly ten pages long).

Your bibliographical exercise/textual/class activities are worth 40%; the papers 40%; the final paper 20%.

HONOR CODE

All of our work is governed by the UNCG Honor Code.

GOALS FOR THE COURSE

Upon completing this course, you should

1. Be able to begin and carry through extensive, systematic, and thorough research on topics related to English studies

2. Be able to inform high school and undergraduate students about useful research materials for English studies

3. Be able to establish a practical literary criticism that will serve you as critics, teachers, and scholars and that can lead you to more specialized studies of literary theory.

4. Be able to locate yourself as a professional in the field of English studies and begin a job search.

ENGLISH 601, FALL 2001: SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS

8/20 INTRODUCTION

8/27 LIBRARY RESOURCES

Nancy Fogarty on the Jackson Library

Bibliography 1: Basic Search Strategies

9/5 LABOR DAY (no class, but read The Tempest)

9/10 PRACTICAL CRITICISM

Keesey: General Introduction

Bibliography 2: Encyclopedias and Reference Works

9/17 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

Bill Finley on Special Collections. Meet in the Special Collections Room of the library.

Bibliography 3: Archives, Special Collections, and Manuscripts

9/24 TEXTUAL AND HISTORICAL CRITICISM

The Tempest (class discussion of)

Textual exercise on Hamlet

Special guest: Russ McDonald

Keesey: Chapter 1 Historical Criticism I (Intro, Hirsch, Yachnin)

10/1 FORMAL CRITICISM

Bibliography 4: General Bibliographies

Keesey: Chapter 2 Formal Criticism (Intro, Brooks, McDonald)

10/8 FALL BREAK (no class)

10/15 INTERTEXTUAL CRITICISM

Bibliography 5: Specialized Bibliographies

Short Paper 1 (special collections)

Keesey: Chapter 5 Intertextual Criticism (Intro, Frye, Frye [on Tempest]

10/22 STRUCTURALIST CRITICISM

Bibliography 6: Internet Resources

Keesey: Chapter 5 Intertextual Criticism (Culler, Rosmarin)

10/29 POSTRUCTURALIST CRITICISM

Bibliography 7: Title Catalogs

Short Paper 2 (criticism before 1930)

Keesey: Chapter 6 Poststructuralist Criticism (Intro, Derrida, Miko)

11/5 MIMETIC CRITICISM

Bibliography 8: Search Strategies for Journals

Keesey: Chapter 4 Mimetic Criticism (Intro, Alter, Paris [on Tempest]

11/12 CULTURAL CRITICISM

Bibliography 9: "Old" Periodicals

Short Paper 3 (criticism 1950-70)

Keesey: Chapter 7 Historical Criticism II (Intro, Eagleton, Brown)

11/19 READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM

Bibliography 10: Biography

Keesey: Chapter 3 Reader-Response Criticism (Intro, Rosenblatt, Skilleas)

Thanksgiving 11/21

11/26 JOBS

Short Paper 4 (criticism since 1980)

12/3 PEDAGOGY

Short Paper 5 (on pedagogy)

12/10 CONCLUSION

Long Paper

Brief class presentations