LIST OF PURSUITS PROJECTS

NOTE: means that this project has been "taken" by another group already -- your group can't choose it.

1. Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Literature at the Present Time" (photo copy on reserve) and Chris Baldick, Ch. 2: "Matthew Arnold’s Innocent Language," in The Social Mission of English Criticism (on reserve, private copy).

2. Chris Baldick, Chs. 3 and 4: "A Civilizing Subject" and "Literary-Critical Consequences of the War," The Social Mission of English Criticism (on reserve) – the chapters where he looks at how the social mission was carried out in the post-war period.

3. Baldick, on T. S. Eliot and the rise of New Criticism: Ch. 5 "‘On the side of the Artist’ and Ch. 8 "A Common Pursuit: Some Conclusions" in his The Social Mission of English Criticism (on reserve).

[Furr's class, Group #1] 4. Jane Tompkins on the creation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s reputation and the reading of 19^th century American literature in her Sensational Designs: Introduction, Ch. 1: "Masterpiece Theatre" (excerpted in Richter), and Ch. VII "But Is It Any Good." On reserve: PS 374.S7 T66 1985.

[Furr's class, Group #3] 5. Gary Taylor on the weight of Shakespeare in English Studies: Reinventing Shakespeare: Introduction, Ch. 1 "Restoration" and Ch. 7 "Singularity."  On reserve: PR 2965 .T39 1989

6. Michael D. Bristol on Shakespeare in America: Shakespeare’s America, America’s Shakespeare: Introduction, Ch. 7 "From Politics to Sensibility" and Ch. 8 "Subversion and Its Containment." On reserve: PR 2971 U6 B7 1990. And compare to the Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human: Intro: "Shakespeare’s Universalism". On Reserve: PR2989 .B58 1998

7. Gerald Graff on culture wars and literary controversy: Beyond the Culture Wars: Ch.1: Introduction, Ch. 2 "Vanishing Classics" and Ch. 8 "When Is Something Political". On reserve: LS 191.4 G73 1992.  And Literature Against Itself: Ch. I: "Culture, Criticism, and Unreality."

8. On the 1930’s literary radicalism, Barbara Foley, Radical Representations: Ch. 4 "Art or Propaganda." On reserve: PS374.P6 F65 1993.

9. On the 1930’s proletarian literature: Granville Hicks, ed. Proletarian Literature In The United States: Introduction by Joseph Freeman and essays by Mike Gold ("Wilder: Prophet of the Genteel Christ"), Granville Hicks ("American Fiction…"), and William Philips and Phillip Rahv [before they left the left] ("(Revoltuionary Literature"). On reserve: PS509.P7P7

One more from the 1930’s: James T. Farrell, A Note on Literary Criticism: Introduction to the Morningside Edition, Ch I "Duality of Literature", Ch. X "Literature and Propaganda" and Ch. XII Conclusion. On reserve: PN 81.F3 1993.

[Furr's class, Group #2] 11. On one part of the Feminist critque, Annette Kolodny "Dancing Through the Minefield…" (excerpted in Richter but should read the whole text) in Elaine Showlater’s The New Feminist Criticism; Showlater’s own introduction to the anthology, and responses to the essay in Feminist Studies 8 (Fall 1982): 629-75 [on microfilm in Sprague]. Showalter on reserver: PN 98.W64 N48 1985.

12. Barbara Foley, "Politics of Deconstruction" , http://victorian.fortunecity.com/holbein/439/bf/politics_of_deconstruction.html

13. Terry Eagleton, "Where Do Postmodernists Come From?" (Monthly Review, July 1995),

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/eagletonpomomr95.html

, and Neil Larsen, "Postmodernism And Imperialism: Theory And Politics In Latin America," from Postmodern Culture’s inaugural issue, at

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.990/larsen.990

, and Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author," in Richter, ed., pp. 222.

14. Barbara Foley, "From New Criticism To Deconstruction: The Example Of Charles Feidelson's Symbolism And American Literature",

http://victorian.fortunecity.com/holbein/439/bf/new_crit_to_decon.html

, and Christopher Clausen, "Reading Closely Again," (from Commentary, February 1997),

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/9702/febobs.html

15. Adam Katz, "Postmodern Cultural Studies: A Critique", in

http://eserver.org/clogic/i-1/katz.html ,

, and Stuart Hall, "Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies."

16. Jerry Phillips, "Culture, the academy, and the police; or reading Matthew Arnold in "our present unsettled state,"

http://victorian.fortunecity.com/holbein/439/essays/phillipscl998.html

, and Greg Meyerson, "Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Labor Competition," at http://eserver.org/clogic/i-1/meyerson.html

17. Sacvan Berkovitch, "The Problem of Ideology in American Literary History,"

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/bercovitch85.html

, and Nina Baym, "Melodramas Of Beset Manhood: How Theories Of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" at

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/baymmelodramas.html

[Furr's class, Group #4] 18. Noam Chomsky, "On ‘theory’ and ‘post-modern cults’", at

http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/decon/chomsky2.html

, and Henry Giroux, "Reading Texts…", in Richter, ed., 63 ff.

19. Teresa Ebert, "Quango-ing the University: The End(s) of Critique-al Humanities", in Cultural Logic (on-line journal), at

http://eserver.org/clogic/i-1/ebert.html , /ebert2.html, /ebert3.html, and

, and Marjorie Perloff, "Restoring ‘Literary Literacy’ to the English Curriculum," from CHE May 9, 1997, at

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/perloffche050997.html

20. Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, "’The Stupidity That Consumption Is Just As Productive As Production’: In The Shopping Mall Of The Post-Al Left," (Contemporary Literature, October 1994), at http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/zavarzadehcl1094.html

, and Ronald Strickland, "The Autonomous Individual And The Anonymous Referee," (Contemporary Literature, October 1994), at http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/stricklandcl1094.html

21. Paul Lauter, "The Literatures of America: A Comparative Discipline" (from Redefining American Literary History, ed. a. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. New York: MLA, 1990), at http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/lautermla90.html

, and Houston A. Baker, Jr., "Figurations for a New American Literary History" (from Ideology and Classical American Literature, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen, Cambridge University Press), at http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/criticism/bakerfigurations.html.