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PLEASE SIGN UP FOR ONE CLASS as “first responder/ primary discussant” All classes listed below should have AT LEAST ONE student signed up: please fill all spots before adding a second name anywhere Week 2 4/6 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Chs. 1-15 (Vol. 1) Quilla Valdez; Cristina Hernandez 4/8 Narratology: Story/Discourse; Characterization; Time. Or, is there a formula for the literary aesthetic? Read: Rimmon-Kenan, Chs. 4-5; read ahead: Gilbert/Gubar, excerpts from The Madwoman in the Attic (R, for 4/13) Alex Vitruk Week 3 4/13 Feminism: The Madwoman in the Attic; or, why Jane and Bertha are not really rivals, but secret allies. Jane Eyre, Chs. 16-26 (Vol. 2) Angela Shepard; Mena Krone; Marissa McGrath 4/15 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic: Gateshead as Gothic mansion, where Jane “hears” a ghost. A rational-psychoanalytic explanation of supernatural events. Read: Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”; excerpts from Punter & Byron, The Gothic (all R) Brian Hardison; Surya Manickam Week 4 4/20 Genre and “Archetypes” (structural building blocks) of Fiction: Or, why our heroine almost dies mid-way through the story. Jane Eyre, Chs. 27- 30; selections from Northrop Frye (R) Katelin Benson; Julia Arp 4/22 Jane Eyre, to end; Terry Eagleton (R) Duane Taylor; Jeanna Harrington Week 5 4/27 Postcolonial Critique of Jane Eyre: Or, second thoughts on Gilbert/Gubar: is Rochester’s mad wife really Jane’s dark double, her secret self? Spivak (R) Mary-Janelle Ditching; Kirsten Thornton Week 6 5/4 Postcolonial revision or counterdiscourse: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, Parts I & II; re-read Spivak (R); Rhys, excerpts from Smile, Please and Black Exercise Book (in Norton WSS) Heather Barnum; Paul Groff 5/6 Interpreting Antoinette’s prophetic dream: Read: Wide Sargasso Sea, to end; Sandra Drake (in Norton WSS) Allan Habon; Raanan Schnitzer Week 7 5/11 Rhys’ racial project: Neither White nor Black: Creole Identity between Race and Fantasy: read Plasa (R) and Benita Parry (in Norton WSS) Yodit Semu; Jonathan Rice 1 5/13 Narratology: free indirect speech; voice (Who speaks?) vs. vision (Who sees?); Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, pp. 1-33; Rimmon-Kenan, Ch. 8 (Narration: Speech Representation) Tim Zimmerman; Ricky Kim Week 8 5/20 Subjectivizing Narrative in the Modernist Novel: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, to p. 136; Woolf, “Modern Fiction”; Fernihough, “Consciousness as a Stream”; selected entries from The Diary of Virginia Woolf (all R) Victoria Wadzita; Marco CaldirolaDavis Week 9 5/25 Anxiety of Influence between Women Writers? Modernist Impersonality (Mrs Dalloway) vs. the Victorian Social Protest Novel (Jane Eyre) Mrs Dalloway, to end; Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own; Woolf, “Continuing Appeal of Jane Eyre”; review Gilbert/Gubar (all R) Joyce Myers 5/27 Narratology: Narration and focalization. Rimmon-Kenan, Chs. 6 & 7; Brownstein; review Frye, “Satire” (both R) Curt Schlichtman; Kody Brynestad 2