Weekly Breakdown
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Week 1
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Tuesday: the Critical Practice Test will be administred in H507 (10:00-12:00).
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Thursday: a list of participants will be published.
Week | Primary Text(s) | Seminar Preparation |
2 |
Kate Chopin's
The Awakening
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Elaine Showalter's "Tradition and the female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book". Elizabeth Le Blanc's "The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening". |
3 | Awakening and
ST Coleridge's
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Frances Ferguson's "Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'". Paula Treichler's "The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A linguistic analysis". |
4 | Awakening,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
and
W. Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Marjorie Garber's "Hamlet: Giving up the Ghost". Susan Eilenberg's "Voice and Ventriloquy in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' Patricia Yaeger's "A Language which Nobody Understood: Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening" |
5 | Awakening,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
and
Hamlet
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Margit Stange's "“Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening". Raimonda Modiano's "'Sameness or Difference? Historicist Readings of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'". Karin S. Coddon's "'Suche Strange Desygns’: Madness, Subjectivity, and Treason in Hamlet and Elizabethan Culture". |
6 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Hamlet |
Anne Williams' "An I for An Eye: ‘Spectral Persecution’ in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Janet Adelman's "'Man and Wife Is One Flesh': Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body". |
7 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Hamlet |
David Simpson's “How Marxism Reads ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’”. Michael D. Bristol's "'Funeral Bak’d-Meats': Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet" |
8 | NONE | Critical practice and your own writing: Peer review session The second half of the session will consist of an introduction to Carter's The Bloody Chamber in preparation for next week's oral presentations |
9 |
Angela Carter,
The Bloody Chamber and
Traditional Fairy Tales
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Prepare critical analysis of individual stories as assigned. |
10 | The Bloody Chamber | Deliver Oral presentations as assigned. |