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Herbert Lindenberger
Rm 416, Bldg 460
Hours: M 1:15-3
T 1:45-3
E-mail
Personal webpage
Required books:
Gerald Graff, Professing Literature (University of Chicago Press).
Georg Lukács, Theory of the Novel (Merlin Press)
Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose (Dalkey Archive)
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (Schocken)
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis (Princeton University Press)
Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (University of Texas Press)
Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader (Pantheon)
Edward Said, Orientalism (Random House)
Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art (Stanford University Press)
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education (Penguin)
A reader with several essays to complement the books above.
Course Requirements:
All students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively
in discussion.
1. Weekly reading responses. Beginning with the session for October 9, each
student must contribute a brief statement (at most a page) on the assigned
text to PanFora newsgroup. These statements should be posted as early in the
week as possible and no later than noon on Tuesday. The statement should be
designed above all to stimulate discussion; students should feel free to state
whatever reactions they have to the text, and they should also be prepared
to defend their points of view in class. Whenever possible, they should take
the opportunity of commenting on one another's statements. Responses will
not be graded.
2. Report. Each session of "Foundational Texts" will start with
an oral report of no more than 15 minutes. Reports will center on another
text by the author, or by a closely related author, of the text assigned for
that day. Since there are more students in the class than there are authors
being read in the course, additional reports will be assigned on authors not
covered. Report topics will be assigned at the group's first meeting.
3. Term paper. Each student will write a paper of 13 to 15 pages about the
reception history of a particular literary text or a small group of closely
related texts. The paper will be completed in stages in the course of the
quarter, with the choice of topic to be made in the early weeks, a tentative
bibliography due at midterm, and a section to be presented to the whole class
in early December. This text should be one that not only exercises a particular
fascination for the student but also one that has also invited a wide range
of commentary over time.
Grades:
Course grades will be based largely on the paper, but attendance in class,
quality of reports, and contributions to class discussions will also be taken
into consideration. Incompletes will be given only for medical emergencies.