English 303: Critical Approaches to Literature

1. English 303: Critical Approaches to Literature Rethinking the Way We Read… By Richard Schumaker UMUC Europe

2. CAL: Conference One • Greetings from Paris • Reading: That most personal activity • Reading in our Schools • And so we begin… • Three Links

3. Conference Two: Feminist Approaches to Literature • The Basics: What does a feminist approach to literature try to accomplish? What are its basic forms? • Lesson: • Lesson: • Workpoint: Gender Distortion in “The Firm.” • Our Casablanca Project • Poem by Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

4. Conference Three: Sociological Approaches to Literature • The Basics: What does a sociological approach attempt to accomplish? What are the basic forms of sociological criticism? • Lesson • Lesson • Our Hamlet Project • Versions of Hamlet or the Canon Meets Contemporary Culture

5. Conference Four: Psychoanalytical Approaches to Literature • The Basics: What does a psychoanalytical approach to literature try to accomplish? What are the main forms of this approach? • Lesson • Lesson • Workpoint: “The Samurai’s Garden” by Gail Tsukiyama. • Contrast: What are the main differences between traditional criticism and critical theory?

6. Conference Five: Post-Colonialism • The Basics: • Lesson • Lesson • Workpoint: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe • Contrast: “Canon” and Global Concern in Contemporary Literature

7. Conference Six: Postmodernism • The Basics • Lesson • Lesson • Project in Postmodernism: Pulp Fiction

8. (Avoiding) Conclusions • 1. English 303: Critical, Approaches, and Literature • 2. Major Mutation One: The Canon Rethought • 3. Major Mutation Two: Why Globalism in literature? • 4. Major Mutation Three: The Study of Literature Becomes Interdisciplinary • 5. Literature in Our Contemporary World • 6. Why the study of literature is crucial to contemporary education—at all levels!!! • 7. Now it’s your turn…