WHY LITERATURE MATTERS SYLLABUS

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1 WHY LITERATURE MATTERS SYLLABUS NOTES: All the readings in the column headed Secondary Reading(s) will be available as PDFs. Summer scholars should bring with them to Santa Cruz copies of all the required editions of the literary texts, and they should read Jane Eyre and Little Dorrit before arriving. Whenever they would like to discuss the readings or their final projects, summer scholars are encouraged to make appointments with the seminar director during any of the afternoons of the week. Week 1 Sunday, June 24 Dinner: 6:00-8:00 PM Greetings and Introductions Location: Cowell Provost House

2 Monday, June 25 Melville, Moby-Dick (1851), Abrams, Mirror and Lamp, Teacher as critics and Pairings of Summer Scholars ch. 1 pp theorists (focus on pedagogical *All readings in a filed named usefulness of secondary June 25 readings Arnold, Dover Beach (1867) Phelan, Living to Tell about It, Meta-levels: theories of readings): corrected pp literary value and of reading; of form, first-person narration Thursday, June 28 Culler, What is Literature (individual vs. group) Now?, pp Models of literary McGregor, Value of communication; two Friday, June 29 Literature, pp adaptations of Abrams s model Denby, Lit Up, xiii-xvii, pp Nature of value (of what Monday, July 2 kind? functional, formal? Meretoja and Lyytikäinen, extrinsic, intrinsic? in what Why We Read, pp. 1-10, way? for whom? to what 12-2 end?) Thursday, July 5 Persson, The Literature Collcting internet resources, Myth, pp e.g.: youtube.com/watch? 3. Felski, Introduction, pp. v- v=0zedctywemy 4. viii, xii. Monday, July 9 Thursday, July 12

3 Tuesday, June 26 Poe, McIntyre and Hickman, Modes of reading: close, Poe and Popcorn Epilogue, pp , distanced; surface, deep or The Fall of the House of immersive Screening openings of film Usher (1839)** adaptations of The Fall of Stier, How Formalism Reading for voice: Poe s I the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Became a Dirty Word, pp. and its variations Morgue (1841) , 215 (time and location TBA) The Pit and the Moretti, Style, Inc., pp. Pendulum (1843) , The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)** Best and Marcus, Surface Reading, pp. 3-6, 9-13, The Purloined Letter (1845) **Prepare for discussion Bruns, The Role of Immersive Reading, pp

4 Wednesday, June 27 Afternoon: 2:00-4:00 PM Campus tour led by Tara Thomas Bay Tree Bookstore and McHenry Library (introduction to library research at UCSC; Special Collections, first editions of Douglass s Narrative and Dickens s Little Dorrit Thursday, June 28 Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847), Bruns, Why Literature, ch. 1, Autobiography and reading review selected passages in pp as regression ch Wordsworth, The Prelude, Literary-historical contexts: Book IV, lines nineteenth-century models of autobiography as projection Afternoon: 2:00-4:00 PM DeQuincey, Pains of Opium (selections) Workshop held by guest Sara Stillman To prepare: browse Smith and Watson, Appendix B, pp

5 Friday, June 29 Brontë, Jane Eyre (cont.), Blackford, Out of This World, Fiction and identification review selected passages in pp. 1-9, 11-15, ch Fiction and empathy Keen, Empathy and the Novel, pp. viii-x, 49-55, WEEK 2 Monday, July 2 Douglass, Narrative of the Davis, Inhuman Bondage, Historical context Life (1845) pp , Autobiographer s model of history Newman, Slave Narratives, pp , Literary conventions, individuality, and originality Olney, I Was Born, pp. 46, Tuesday, July 3 Mill, Autobiography Marmontel, Memoirs, Book I, Literary-historical contexts: (posthumous 1873), ch. 1-6 pp , 38-40, scenes of reading in Mill s Autobiography Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality Wednesday, July 4 Douglass, What to a Slave is the Fourth of July? pp Preparing proposals for final projects (identify texts and approaches) CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY

6 Thursday, July 5 Brontë, Douglass, and Mill Anker and Felski, pp. 4-6, 26 Felluga, Modules on Althusser Warner, Uncritical Reading, pp , 36 Ablow, Feeling of Reading, pp. 1-4, 10 Where do we go from here? Beyond ideological critique? On to reparative reading? Back to traditional expertise? Anker/Felski and Felluga Warner, Ablow, and Bennett Bennett, Dear Humanities Profs Common Core State Standards, Appendix A, pp. 4, Friday, July 6 WEEK 3 Four-minute presentations of proposals for final projects; brief discussions of each Arranging working groups for final projects

7 Monday, July 9 Tennyson, In Memoriam A. Norton Critical Edition: Poetic form H. H. (1850) Introduction, esp. pp. xv-xxi; Hallam, Lord Tennyson pp. Literary-historical contexts: ; Shannon, pp. Tennyson s readers, then ; Eliot, pp and now Gang, No Symbols, pp. Author s intentions Tuesday, July 10 Whitman, Song of Myself Wainwright, Free Verse, pp. Poetic form (1855) 94-98, Literary-historical contexts: Hollander, Free Verse, pp. Emerson and Whitman, poet speaking for individual and/ or nation Emerson, The Poet (1844, excerpts) Recording a Personality Warner, Introduction, pp. xiv-xvii Whitman, Preface, Leaves of Grass, 1855, pp , 352 Whitman, A Backward Glance, pp ,

8 Wednesday, July 11 Afternoon: Meetings of working groups with seminar director Thursday, July 12 Selected Poems by Emily Wainwright, Definitions, pp. Poetic form Dickinson [PDF name: Dickinson Literature as experience Poems] Hollander, Versification, pp Watts, When I can read... Attridge, Literary Experience, pp , Arbery, Not Conclusion, pp (excerpts), 246

9 Friday, July 13 Browse all of the following: Cunningham, Touching Touching words Whitman, Song of Myself Reading, pp , 181 (1892) Arbery, Introduction, pp. Material forms of literature xix-xxiv, Dickinson Electronic Archives Editorial scholarship and Reynolds, Walt Whitman s teaching Afternoon: 2:00-4:00 PM America, fig. 1-4, 37-38a; Guest discussion leader: Jon especially page: pp , 619, , Varese archive.emilydickinson.org/ safe/zh203d.html Evening: 8:00-10:00 PM Love s Labour s Lost, The Walt Whitman Archive Opening Night performed by Santa Cruz Shakespeare The Classroom Electric Location: The Grove at DeLaveaga Park, carpooling required intro.html especially the link to: whitman/index.html

10 WEEK 4 Sunday, July 15, 7:45 PM THE DICKENS UNIVERSE: A WEEK WITH LITTLE DORRIT Consult the detailed schedule at: dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/universe-schedule.html Introduction to Dickens Universe; lecture by Dickens Project faculty member Monday, July 16 through Friday, July 20 Daily Schedule 9:00-9:45 AM Faculty-led contextual discussion groups 10:00-11:15 AM Lecture by Dickens Project faculty member 11:30 AM-12:45 PM Meetings of NEH Summer Seminar 1:45-3:00 PM 19th-Century Seminar, registration required (Monday-Friday) Dickensian Seminars (Monday-Friday) Film Screening, repeat of previous evening s film (Monday-Thursday) Field Trip: Tour of Grateful Dead Archive and Special Collections (Tuesday) Field Trip: Tour of Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (Wednesday) 3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea, presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project (Monday-Thursday) 4:00-5:00 PM Talk by visiting faculty member (Monday-Thursday) 5:15-6:00 PM Deciphering Dickens, digitization project with Victoria and Albert Museum (Monday-Thursday) Victorian Dance Lessons (Monday-Thursday) 6:45-7:30 PM Post-Prandial Potations (Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday-Friday) 7:45-9:00 PM Lecture by Dickens Project faculty member (Sunday-Wednesday) Farce: Everybody s Fault: A Dickensian Travesty (Thursday) 9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening (Sunday-Wednesday) Friday, July 20, 2:00-4:00 PM Friday, July 20, 5:00-7:00 PM Friday, July 20, 6:45 PM Final meeting of NEH Summer Seminar Farewell Dinner for Summer Scholars Location: Cowell Provost House Final events of the Dickens Universe: Auction and Victorian Dance