| Sep. 1: | | Introduction to the course |
| 3: | Dante's Inferno, Cantos I-IV |
| 8: | Dante, introduction to each section |
| 10: | Dante, architecture of Hell drawing |
| 15: | Essay in Keesey: Greenblatt, "Culture" |
| 17: | Essay in Keesey: New Historicism. Culture as Context. Brown: "This Thing of Darkness I acknowledge Mine" The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism" |
| 24: | Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST |
| Oct. 1: | Historical Criticism. The Author as Context. Yachnin: "Shakespeare and the idea of Obedience: Gonzalo in The Tempest" |
| 6: | Formal Criticism. Form as Context. MacDonald, "Reading The Tempest" |
| 8: | Reader-Response Criticism. Audience as Context. Skilleas: "Anachronistic Themes and Literary Value: The Tempest" |
| 13: | Mimetic Criticism: "Reality" as Context. Paris, "The Tempest" |
| 15: | Intertextual Criticism. Literature as Context. Frye, "Shakespeare's The Tempest" |
| 20: | Poststructural Criticism. Language as Context. Miko, "Tempest" |
| 22: | Midterm examination |
| 27 - 29: | Selected verses from the COMPLETE POEMS of EMILY DICKINSON |
| Nov 3: | " Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson (on reserve) |
| 5: | " Essay (on reserve) |
| 10 - 12: | Chopin's THE AWAKENING (in Keesey) |
| 17 - 24: | Small Groups: critical essay |
| Dec 1: | Belsey, "Literature, History, Politics" in Keesey; Achebe (on reserve) |
| 3 - 10: | Achebe: THINGS FALL APART |
| 15: | Review. Papers due.
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