The Text is not a co-existence of meanings, but a passage
an overcrossing: it answers not to an interpretation, even
to a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination . . . .Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text" (1971)
Sept. 5 Introduction Sept. 7 Kermode, "Hoti's Business: Why are Narratives Obscure?"
in The Genesis of Secrecy (packet) Sept. 12 Richardson, Pamela, Preface, and pp. 43-208 Sept. 14 Pamela, pp. 208-365 Sept. 19 Pamela, pp. 365-516 Sept. 21 Finish Pamela; Armstrong, "The Rise of Female
Authority in the Novel" in Desire and Domestic
Fiction (packet) Sept. 26 Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Vol. I Sept. 28 Sense and Sensibility, Vol. II Oct. 3 Sense and Sensibility, Vol. III Oct. 5 Said, from Culture and Imperialism (packet) Oct. 9 First essay due by 5:00 pm Oct. 10 Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I Oct. 12 Frankenstein, Vol. I (cont'd); Gilbert &
Gubar, "Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve" in
Critical Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (packet) Oct. 13-23 FALL BREAK Oct. 24 Frankenstein, Vol. II Oct. 26 Frankenstein, Vol. III Oct. 31 Finish Frankenstein; Brooks, "Godlike
Science/Unhallowed Arts; Language, Nature and Monstrosity"
in The Endurance of Frankenstein (packet) Nov. 2 James, The Ambassadors, Preface, Books
First-Third Nov. 9 The Ambassadors, Books Fourth-Fifth Nov. 14 The Ambassadors, Books Sixth-Eighth Nov. 16 The Ambassadors, Books Ninth-Twelfth Nov. 19 Second essay due by 5:00 pm Nov. 21 Finish The Ambassadors; Dollimore, from Sexual
Dissidence (handout) Nov. 23-27 THANKSGIVING Nov. 28 Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Nov. 30 Mrs. Dalloway Dec. 5 Mrs. Dalloway Dec. 7 Finish Mrs. Dalloway; Abel, "Narrative
Structure(s) and Female Development " in The Voyage
In (packet) Dec.12 Cunningham, The Hours Dec. 14 The Hours Dec. 22 Final Exam due by 12:00 NOON
