Here are the supplemental texts for the course. You must not only download these materials, but print them out and bring them to class on the day that we’ll be discussing them. The most important is the poetry packet, which we will use throughout the semester. Other readings for individual days are listed below.
- August 25: J. Hillis Miller, “How to Read Literature“
- September 3: William Wordsworth, excerpt from “Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads“
- September 17: T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent“
- October 1: Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller“
- October 8: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Philosophy of Composition“
- November 10: Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” and Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?“