• "classic, classical"; "classicism"; "Platonism" (Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms 457-8, 58-60, 346-7)
• Plato, The Republic: Book X and from The Ion (Criticism: Major Statements 1-17); The Republic, from Book III (Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato, 23-33, reserve)
• Aristotle, "The Poetics," (CMS 18-46)
• Longinus, On the Sublime (CMS 47-83)
• Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Sophocles I 11-76)

• Plato, The Republic
  • Book III

• "Renaissance," "Renaissance Period (in English literature)," "sonnet," "sonnet sequence," "invocation" (Bedford 402-6, 450-1, 220)
• Sidney, An Apology for Poetry (CMS 101-135)
• "Versification" (NAP 1251-76)
• Shakespeare, from The Sonnets (NAP 234-241)
• Sidney, from Astrophil and Stella (NAP 169-79)
• Milton, from Paradise Lost, "The Verse, " "The Invocation" (NAP 276-8)
• Shakespeare, King Lear (2-145)

• "neoclassicism," �romanticism,� �Romantic Period (in American literature),� �Romantic Period (in English literature) (Bedford  291, 415-22)
• Pope, An Essay on Criticism (CMS 182-199)
• Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare (CMS 200-231
• Johnson, "King Lear" (King Lear 188-9)
• Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (CMS 240-256)
• Wordsworth, "Lines . . . Tintern Abbey," "Ode: Intimations of Mortality," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (NAP 458-62, 478-83, 483)

• �Victorian Period (in English literature), �modernism,� �Modern Period (in English and American Literature),��Aestheticism (Aesthetic Movement)�   (Bedford 495-6, 268-271, 5-6)
• Arnold, The Study of Poetry (CMS 333-353)
• Burns, "Tam O’Shanter" (online) and "A Red, Red Rose" (NAP 456)
• Pater, "Conclusion" from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (CMS 354-357)
• Wilde, from The Critic as Artist (CMS 374-381)
• Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (CMS 404-410)
• Conrad, Heart of Darkness (HD 17-95)
• Murfin, "The Critical Background" (HD 99-112)

• "formalism," "New Criticism," "affective fallacy," "intentional fallacy," "structuralism," "structuralist criticism" (Bedford 175-6, 293-4, 6-7, 218, 457-62)
• Donne, "The Canonization"; Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (NAP 194-5, 585-6)
• Brooks, "Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes" (CMS 465-474)
• Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy" from The Verbal Icon (in Hazard Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato, 1014-31, reserve)
• Barthes, "The Structuralist Activity" (CMS 487-492)
• Frost, "The Road Not Taken"; MacLeish, "Ars Poetica"; Millay, "I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed"; Moore, "Poetry" (NAP 795-6, 801, 885-6, 887-8, 856-7)
• Frost,  "West-Running Brook"

•  "poststructuralism," "deconstruction" (Bedford 362-7, 91-9)
• Murfin, "What is Deconstruction?" (HD 185-201)
• Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" (CMS 493-510)
• Whitman, from "Song of Myself" (NAP 679-84)
• Johnson, "A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden" (654-661)
• Miller, "Heart of Darkness Revisited" (HD 206-220)

• Murfin, "What is Reader-Response Criticism?" (HD 115-127)
• "reception-theory" (Bedford 401-2)
• Fish, from Is There a Text in This Class? (CMS 573-585)
• Rabinowitz, "Reader Response, Reader Responsibility: Heart of Darkness and the Politics of Displacement" (HD 131-147)
• Wharton, "Preface," "Miss Mary Pask," "Kerfol" (The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 7-11, 146-62, 92-117)

• "psychological criticism and psychoanalytical criticism" (Bedford 375-83)
• Freud, "The Theme of the Three Caskets" (CMS 394-403)
• Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience" and "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud" (Adams and Searle, Critical Theory Since 1965, 733-756, reserve)
• Wharton, "The Eyes" (The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 28-46)

• Jacques Lacan's Seminar on The Purloined Letter
• On-line excerpts from "The Mirror Stage"
• additional materials on "The Mirror Stage"
• An on-line version of "The Agency of the Letter"
• Another on-line version of "The Agency of the Letter"

• "What are Feminist and Gender Criticism?" (HD 148-161)
• Rich, "When We Dead Awaken" (CMS 511-524)
• Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood" (CMS 586-602)
• Sedgwick, from Epistemology of the Closet (CMS 744-750)
• Smith, "‘Too Beautiful Altogether’: Ideologies of Gender and Empire in Heart of Darkness" (HD 169-183)
• Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

• "Marxism," "Marxist criticism," �postcolonial literature and postcolonial theory� (Bedford 244-51, 356-9 )
• Marx, from The German Ideology (CMS 310-318)
• Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism, chapters 1-2 (CMS 525-543)
• Bakhtin, "Heteroglossia in the Novel" (CMS 422-447)
• Gates, "The Trope of the Talking Book" (CMS 696-743)
• Bhaba, "The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: The Question of Agency" (CMS 763-781)
• Hughes, "Theme for English B," "The Weary Blues," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (NAP 915-6, 912-3)
• Brooks, "kitchenette building," "We Real Cool"  (NAP 998, 999-1000)
• Brooks, "The Coora Flower"(online)
• Wharton, "All Souls’" (The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 252-274)

• "historicism" (Bedford 202)
• "What is the New Historicism?" (HD 221-233)
• Foucault, "What Is an Author?" (CMS 544-558)
• Greenblatt, "Shakespeare and the Exorcists" ( CMS 630-653)
• Hall, "Readers and Reading in America," in Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (169-187) (reserve)
• "The Text" (King Lear 146-150)
• Davidson, "Ideology and Genre" and "Literacy, Education, and the Reader" in Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (38-79) (reserve)
• Warner, from The Wide, Wide World (29-31, 563-4) (handout)
• Thomas, "Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Heart of Darkness" (HD 239-257)

DUE: ESSAY #5

• Landow�s Hypertext.