Seminar Presentation Schedule

History and Principles of Literary Criticism
Presentation Schedule

Week 1, Sept 4-6 Introduction

Ong, selections from Orality and Literacy (hand out)

Week 2: Representation–Simulation and Mimesis

Sept 11 Plato, The Republic, Book X and The Ion

Sept 13 Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulations”

Steve Kerschbaum: Project Baudrillard Baudrillard in The Matrix

Week 3: Imitation and Poetry

Sept 18 Aristotle, The Poetics

Sept 20 Horace, The Art of Poetry

J. P. Fulford

Shifting Paradigms Ut Pictura Poesis illustration

Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
              Tony Hoile
                    http://www.upregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html
                      http://www.dsu-edu~laflinj/litcrit/gsidney.html
                       http://www.web.uvic.ca/shakespeare.-slt-noframes/literature/sidney.html

Week 4: Defining the Author and Critic

Sept 25 Foucault, “What is an Author?”

Rose, “The Question of Literary Property”

Sept 27 Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Michael Loncaric

John Dryden "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy" Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Eileen Keast

SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE OF ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

The Alexander Pope Page

Michael Loncaric John Dryden "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"

Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Eileen Keast SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE OF ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
The Alexander Pope Page

Week 5: Aesthetics and Taste

Oct 2 Eagleton, “The Law of the Heart: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke”

Hume, “Of the Standard of Taste”

Oct 4 Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Man

Williams, from A Tour of Switzerland

Week 6: The Communities of Readers

Oct 9 Anderson, from Imagined Communities

Bhabha, “Signs Taken for Wonders” (hand out)

Oct 11 Klancher, “Introduction: Historical Audiences and Social Theory”

Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”

Shannon Wells:
Critical sites about Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth: biographical details of interest

Lara Sarenac:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1539/wordswor.htm
"Wordsworth's Revolution of Poetic Language", Keith Hanley

Essay One Due (max. 1500 words)

Week 7: Criticism, Prophecy and Print Technology

Oct 16 Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”

Carlyle, “Signs of the Times”

Oct 18 Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

Sian Madoc-Jones.
Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”

Reference Dictionaries

Ken Hunter: Carlyle.
                                Delightful Machines/Ancient Automata
                                Science and Technology Timeline
                                 Tom Edison's Home Page
                                 Inventions and Discoveries

Week 8: Culture and Industry

Oct 23 Eisenstein, “The End of the Book?”

Arnold, “The Study of Poetry”

Oct 25 Uglow, “Introduction: ‘Possibility’”

Pater, from Studies in the History of the Renaissance

                 Adam Carlson:
                           "A Brief History English Literature in Transition Press"
                           The Historiography of Studies in the History of the Renaissance
                           Investigating The Renaissance: Examining Material Aspects of Three Early Netherlandish
                               Painting Using Digital Imaging Techniques.
                   Matt Goody:
                             Desperately Seeking Shelley
                             On Andrew Bennett's Romantic Poets and
                                the Culture of Posterity. (James Najarian)

Week 9: Issues in Modernism

Oct 30 T.S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

Felski, “Modernity and Feminism” (hand out)

Nov 1 Woolf, “Shakespeare’s Sister”

Ryan Sabourin:
http://www.cprw.com/Davis/eliot.htm
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/ELIOT.HTM

Pasha Bains:

www.english.udel.edu/teague/woolf96.html

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/aah/ws/vw6links.html

Week 10: Reproduction and the Copy

Nov 6 Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Nov 8 Schwartz, “Ditto”

Kittler, “Technological Media”