7 Syllabus Schedule of Readings (Please note that readings are subject to change. I may occasionally supplement the assigned readings below with other materials.) Week 1 (8/27-8/29) Introduction Weeks 2-3 (9/3-9/12) The New Criticism Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" Week 4-5 (9115-9126) Reader-Response Criticism and Interpretive Communities Stanley Fish, "Interpreting the Variorum" (Critical Inquiry, Vol. 2, No.3 (Spring, 1976], pp. 465-485) Weeks 6-7 (9/29-10/10 ) Rethinking Literary Tradition Harold Bloom, "Introduction: A Meditation Upon Priority, and a Synopsis"; "An Elegy for the Canon" Week 8-9 (10/13-10/24) Henry Louis Gates, "Ethics and Ethnicity" (Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 1. (Sept. -- Oct., 1997] pp. 36-53) Cornel West,. "Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism" (Modern Philology, Vol 90, Supplement (May, 1993], pp. S142- S166) Week 10-11 (10/27-11/7) Cultural Criticism: Articulating the Other Edward Said, "Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community (Critical Inquiry, Vol. 9, No. 1 [Sept., 1982] pp 1-26); selections from Orientalism Week 12-13 (11/10-11/ 21 ) Feminist Criticism: Reading Difference Elaine Showalter, "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness” (Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No.2 [Winter, 1981] pp. 179-205) Luce Irigaray, "The Question of the Other" (Yale French Studies, No. 87 [1995J, pp. 7-19) Week 14 (11/24-11/28) Thanksgiving Break Weeks 15-16 (2/1-12/12) Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" J. Hillis Miller, "The Ethics of Reading"