7: Introduction; "The Beast in the Jungle," Henry James (to be read before class and available online here)
14: The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, H. Porter Abbott
21: excerpts from Reading For the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative, Peter Brooks; excerpts from Come as You Are: Sexuality & Narrative, Judith Roof; "Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure," Susan Winnett; excerpt from "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality," Sigmund Freud
28: The Invention of Heterosexuality, Jonathan Ned Katz; "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," Adrienne Rich
5: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
12: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
19: My Ántonia, Willa Cather
26: Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
2: Plum Bun, Jessie Fauset
9: Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
16: TBA (contemporary television and pop culture)
30: TBA (film--Spiderman I and II?)
7: TBA (Possible topics in contemporary U.S. politics: Narrative, Heterosexuality, and Gay Marriage; Narrativizing Heterosexuality and the War in Iraq)
16: Research Paper due, 4:00 p.m., PMH 317