German 240
Intro to Literary Criticism
Spring 1989
Basic Texts
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Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie
Mann, Der Tod in Venediq
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Tentative Schedule:
Week One (Feb 1)
Intro
Week Two (Feb 8)
Russian Formalism
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Sklovskij,
Tynjanov,
Eichenbaum,
Jakobson,
Brecht,
Propp,
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"Die Kunst als Verfahren"
Über die literarische Evolution"
"Theory of the Formal Method"
"Linguistik und Poetik"
"Two aspects of language"
"Der V-Effekt"
"V-effeckte in der chin. Schauspielkunst"
Morphology of the Folktale
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17pp
15pp
17pp
35pp
27pp
9pp
12pp
46pp
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Week Three (Feb. 15)
New Criticism
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Wimsatt & Beardsley,
Wimsatt & Brooks,
Brooks,
Richards,
Eliot,
Auerbach,
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"The Intentional Fallacy"
"The Affective Fallacy"
Literary Criticsim
"I.A. Richards: A Poetics of Tension"
"The Semantic Principle"
"The Language of Paradox"
"The Heresy of Paraphrase"
"Irony as a Principle of Structure"
from Practical Criticism
"Tradition & the Individual Talent"
"Musikus Miller"
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7pp
16pp
21pp
18pp
16pp
8pp
7pp
11pp
4pp
17pp
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Week Four (Feb. 22)
Structuralism & Semiotics
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Culler,
Barthes,
Suassure,
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Structuralist Poetics
"Literary Competence"
"Convention & Naturalization"
"Poetics of the Novel"
"Intro to the Structuralist Analysis of Narratives"
"Myth Today"
from Course in General Linguistics
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18pp
30pp
52pp
44pp
56pp
10pp
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Week Five (March 1)
Structuralism & Narratology
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Booth,
Cohn,
Rimmon,
Booth,
Friedman,
Cohn,
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"Types of Narration"
Transparent Minds, Part I
"A Comprehensive Theory of Narrative: Genette's Figures III"
"Distance & Point-of-View"
"Point of View in Fiction"
"The Second Author of Der Tod in Venedig"
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16pp
122pp
28pp
20pp
19pp
17pp
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Week Six (March 8)
Reader Response & Reception Theory
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Jauss,
Holub,
Bloom,
Fish,
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"Literaturgeschichte als Provokation"
Reception Theory
"The Major Theorists"
"Marxist Reception Theory"
The Anxiety of Influence
"Tessera"
"Is there a text in this class?"
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64pp
54pp
13pp
28pp
8pp
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Week Seven (March 15)
Hermeneutics
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Gadamer,
Ricoeur,
White,
Nietzsche,
Hölderlin,
Gadamer,
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Philosophical Hermeneutics, Part I
"The task of hermeneutics"
"The narrative function"
"The Historical Text as Literary Artifact"
"Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben"
"Brot und Wein"
"Der Archipelagus"
Wahrheit und Methode
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105pp
19pp
21pp
12pp
90pp
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Week Eight (March 22)
Franfurter Schule
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*** Special Guest Host: Robert Hullot-Kentor ***
Adorno, Dialektik der Aufklärung
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Week Nine (March 29)
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*** Spring Break ***
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Week Ten (April 5)
Feminist Literary Theory
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Toril Moi,
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Sexual/Textual Politics
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174pp
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Week Eleven (April 12)
Psycholanalytic Approaches to Literature
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Freud,
Kittler,
Meyer-Kalkus,
Hoffman,
Freud,
Lacan,
Tatar,
Tieck,
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"Das Unheimliche"
"'Das Phantom unseres Ichs' und die
Literaturpsychologie"
"Werthers Krankheit zum Tode"
"Der Sandmann"
Traumdeutung
"Typische Träume"
"Die Traumarbeit" (excerpt, A-E)
"The Mirror Stage"
"The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or
Reason since Freud"
"Unholy Alliances"
"Der blonde Eckbert"
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31pp
27pp
61pp
29pp
100pp
4pp
18pp
18pp
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Week Twelve (April 19)
Deconstruction
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Norris,
DeMan,
Derrida,
Miller,
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Deconstruction
"Genesis & Genealogy (Nietzsche)"
"Rhetoric of Tropes (Nietzsche)"
"Aesthetic Formalization: Kleist's Über das Marionettentheater"
"Differance"
"Structure, Sign & Play"
"The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche"
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126pp
26pp
15pp
27pp
16pp
11pp
14pp
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Week Thirteen (April 26)
Foucault & the New Historicism
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Foucault,
Pechter,
Greenblatt,
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
"What is an Author?"
"The New Historicism & Its Disontents"
"Introduction"
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160pp
10pp
10pp
4pp
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Reading Period
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Barthes,
Benjamin,
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A Lover's Discourse
"Der Erzähler"
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234pp
25pp
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