ENG 510 Practical Criticism
Fall semester, 2000
Main Classroom 312 -- MW 6:00-7:50PM
Dr. Earl Anderson
Professor & Chair, Department of English
Rhodes Tower 1815; Phone 216-687-3951
Mail questions, comments and suggestions to
Professor Anderson.
Texts
Textbooks may be purchased at the University's Barnes &
Noble bookstore (which has several of these titles at a
discounted "used" price), or they may be ordered through
amazon.com,
which provides a discount on most books.
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (Harcourt
Brace). Note: the paperback edition has been ordered
for the bookstore (price, $14.00; amazon.com price $11.20). If you want the
hardcover edition for an additional $6.00, you should
order this title through amazon.com
Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Stories (Knopf, 1993). Publisher's price, $23.00;
amazon.com price, $16.10.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Complete Sherlock Holmes (Doubleday, 1960);
publisher's price, $27.95; amazon.com price, $19.75.
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (W. W. Norton & Co.) Publisher's price: $10.75;
amazon.com price, $8.76.
Paul Auster, New York Trilogy (New York: Penguin, 1987).
John Muller and William Richardson, eds., The Purloined Poe
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988).
Optional texts
Theresa Coletti, Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs
and Modern Theory (Cornell University Press).
Adele Haft et al., The Key to The Name of the Rose
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan press, 1999).
Hervaeus Natalis, The Poverty of Christ and the Apostles:
A Translation . . . of the Liber de Paupertate Christi et Apostolorum
(Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1998.
Click here for a list of Books
on Reserve in the Library.
Internet links of general interest:
The Porta Ludovica website includes a page of
links to popular magazine articles about Eco's fiction.
Quite a lot of good supporting material on the Middle Ages
is available through the Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook. Links
to some of the Fordham University materials will be included in our Practical
Criticism syllabus at places where they are needed.
The Catholic
Encyclopedia has useful articles on a number of topics germane to
The Name of the Rose. Sometimes these are too brief to
be helpful, but other times they are quite good. The website
study pages provide links to selected articles in this source.
A general index to the Name of the Rose study pages
has been established in order to facilitate cross-checking
and movement throughout the website materials.
Writing assignments for ENG 510
:
(1) Beginning the week of September 11, and once each week until
the end of the semester, each student must prepare an
analytical comment about some detail, character, event, or
chapter in The Name of the Rose, with the goal of
publishing this comment in our website "study pages." The
professor will review each student's contribution, and
will either post it on the website (which implies it is "A"-
level work), or send it back to the student for revision
until it is ready for website publication. Your website contributions
should be submitted by email to e.anderson@csuohio.edu.
Include hypertext mark-up language in your text.
Characteristics of your website contributions should be as follows:
(a) Length can vary from a paragraph
to an essay, depending on the needs of the topic.
(b) The comment must combine scholarship, analysis, and criticism;
that is to say, the comment brings forward cultural
information that is relevant to our understanding of some detail in
The Name of the Rose, and relates it to the text
by means of close reading. (No one is interested in mere
"literary criticism" that offers no new research information.)
(c) The comment must include bibliographic information, so
that website visitors can follow up on it in their own
research.
(d) The author must identify the most appropriate website
study-page in which to publish the comment. Where necessary,
we will create a new study-page.
(2) A research paper of 10-20 pages, with documentation
as complete as possible such that the "secondary literature"
on the topic is fully represented in the paper. Click here
for suggestions about possible topics.
(3) A 15-to-20-minute version of the research paper (8 pages
double-spaced), to be presented during the English-department
sponsored three-part Colloquium on Umberto Eco's The
Name of the Rose on December 4, 6, and 13. This
colloquium will be open to the public and graduate
students and academics from other institutions will be
invited to submit papers, in addition to the students
in ENG 510.
(4) A one-paragraph abstract of your Colloquium presentation,
due Monday, Nov. 20. This will be included in the Colloquium
program.
(5) Outlines and reports to the class on selected articles (numbered
consecutively throughout the syllabus). Assignments for these
will be made during the first class meeting.
Philosophy of ENG 510
The goal of ENG 510 is to teach graduate students to think
about literature as professional critics, teachers and
writers, rather than as "consumers" or recreational readers.
The professor has selected The Name of the Rose as
the central text because (1) it is a complex postmodern work with
roots in medieval studies and in 19th-century detective fiction;
(2) several literary genres converge in it; (3) it lends
itself to source studies; (4) its author has also written
about topics in literary criticism, especially on intentionality
and reader response theory.
Mon., Aug. 28: Course introduction
Lecture topics:
(1) The goals of ENG 510 Practical Criticism: to present
models of "close reading," or "explication de texte," in
the context of modern and contemporary critical theories and
approaches to literature.
(2) Overview of authors to be examined: postmodern authors Juan Luis Borges,
Umberto Eco, and Paul Auster; 19th century
predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle
(3) Overview of critical approaches and theories to be
considered.
Wed., Aug. 30: Fictive authors, paratexts,
and the "rescued manuscript" topos
The Name of the Rose, pp. 1-5 [the fictive author-editor's paratext]
Jorge Borges, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," in
Labyrinths, pp. 3-18.
Also very helpful: Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed,
"Author's Introduction." This is Eco's most immediate source
for the "rescued manuscript" topos.
Mon., Spt. 4: Labor Day observed.
Wed., Spt. 6: Fictive authors and authorial intention:
Edgar Allen Poe, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, with
special attention to fictive authors and editors
Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, pp. 1-25: discussion
of the "ideal author" and the "empirical author."
Reports:
#1. W. K. Wimsatt (with Monroe C. Beardsley), The
Verbal Icon (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press,
1954), chapter on "The Intentional Fallacy." (First
published in Sewanee Review 54 (Summer 1946):468-88.
Classic structuralist attack on recovering the "author's intention"
as the basis of validity in criticism.
#2. E. D. Hirsch, "Objective Interpretation," PMLA
75 (1960):463-79. Defends authorial "intention," which
establishes a "horizon" of possible meanings (and therefore
of valid interpretations) in terms of phenomenology. The
weakness of this approach is its dependence upon Husserl's
phenomenology, a philosophy that is no longer in fashion.
#3. E. D. Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), pp. 1-23, "In
Defense of the Author." A much stronger defense of
intentionality because it is grounded in practical criticism
rather than in Husserlian phenomenology.
Mon., Spt. 11: Criticism and authorial intention (continued);
fictive author's paratext on manuscript divisions and liturgical hours; and Prologue
(Name of the Rose, pp. 7-18).
Reports:
#4. Goran Hermeren, "Allusions and Intentions." In
Intention and Interpretation, ed. Gary Iseminger.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. Pp. 203-20.
We will want to look closely at this argument in view
of the importance of allusion in Eco's The Name of
the Rose.
#5. Joseph Margolis, "Robust Relativism." In Intention and Interpretation, ed. Gary Iseminger.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. Pp. 41-50.
Margolis brings to the debate on intentionality the Peircean
concept of "abduction," which, incidentally, is important
in Eco's thinking and characteristic of William of Baskerville's
method as a "detective."
#6. Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 1-25,
"Entering the Woods" (analysis of fictive author strategies
in Poe).
#7. Rocco Capozzi, "Eco's Theories and Practice of
Interpretation: The Rights of the Text and the (Implied)
Presence of the Author," Signifying Behavior
1 (1994): 176-200.
Wed., Spt. 13: Name of the Rose,
Prologue (pp. 11-18)--
Historical digressions and the "historical novel" as a genre
Ageing of the world, an apocalpytic topos: for this, read Alanus
de Insulus, De Planctu natura.
Characterization of William of Baskerville: for this,
read A. C. Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Sign of Four," and "Hound of the
Baskervilles," with particular attention to details that
Eco appropriates for his portrait of William.
Scholasticism and William of Baskerville's character:
Reports:
#8. Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1967),
articles on "Robert Grosseteste" (vol. 3:391-92), and
Roger Bacon (vol. 1:240-242). [This encyclopedia is available
in the English Faculty Library, RT 1817.]
#9. Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1967),
articles on "William of Ockham" (vol. 8:306-17) and
"Ockhamism" (vol. 5:533-34). [This encyclopedia is available
in the English Faculty Library, RT 1817.]
#10. Umberto Eco and G. B. Zorzoli, The Picture History
of Inventions, trans. Anthony Lawrence (New York:
Macmillan, 1963), pp. 290-94, "Human Flight", pp. 78-80,
"Compass, Astrolabe and Sextant," and pp. 123-32 "The
Measurement of Time."
Mon., Spt. 18: First Day: Prime, and Terce
(Name of the Rose, pp. 21-39), with particular
attention to the Aedificium (21-22, 25-38).
For the building as symbol in the tradition of Gothic
romance: Edgar Allen Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
For the labyrinth as symbol: Jorge Borges, Labyrinths: "The Garden of Forking Paths," pp. 19-29; "Avatars
of the Tortoise" (pp. 202-8); "Partial Magic in the Quixote"
(pp. 193-96); "The Library of Babylon."
Reports:
#11. John T. Irwin, "Double You, Double V: Borges and
Poe in the Labyrinth," Critica Hispanica 15, no. 2
(Fall 1993):85-84. Copy on file in the English office.
#12. Martin J. T. Johnston, "Games with Infinity: The Fictions
of Jorge Luis Borges," Variaciones Borges 5 (1998):
177-202. Copy on file in the English office.
#13. Thomas L. Cooksey, "The Labyrinth in the Monad: Possible Worlds
in Borges and Leibniz," Comparatist: Journal of the Southern
Comparative Literature Association 17 (May 1993):51-58.
#14. Deborah Parker, "The Literature of Appropriation:
Eco's Use of Borges in Il nome della rosa," Modern
Language Review 85 (1990): 842-49.
Wed., Spt. 20: The Brunellus episode (Name
of the Rose, pp. 22-25, 27-29, 261-62, 303-6). Discussion
topics are (1) initial proof of the d
For the topos of an "initial proof of the detective's
intellectual powers", read: Edgar Allen Poe, "Murders
in the Rue Morgue," with special attention to the episode of the
fruiterer near the Palais Royal; and A. C. Doyle, "A Scandal in
Bohemia."
Reports
#15. David Lehman, The Perfect Murder (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan, 1989), pp. 13-22, 71-81 ("The Birth of a New Hero,"
and "The Legacy of Edgar Allen Poe").
#16. Umberto Eco, "Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses
on Three Types of Abduction," in The Sign of Three,
ed. Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 1983), pp. 198-220.
#17. Nancy Harrowitz, "The Body of the Detective Model:
Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe," in The Sign of
Three, ed. Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1983), pp. 179-97. On abduction
as the method of reasoning in Peirce and Poe. PR 4624 .S53 1983.
#18. John J. White, "On Semiotic Interplay: Forms of
Creative Interaction between Iconicity and Indexicality in
Twentieth-Century Literature," in Form Miming Meaning,
ed. Max Nanny and Olga Fischer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1999.
Pp. 83-108. [Copy available in the English office.]
Mon., Spt. 25 The Name of the Rose,
pp. 27-39, 65-70: William's encounters with Abbot Abo
and Severinus the herbalist. For aspects of William's
character and earlier career as a herbalist: A. C. Doyle,
"The Blue Carbuncle," "The Bascombe Valley Myster," and
"Charles Augustus Milverton." [In all three stories,
Sherlock Holmes lets a suspect go free because of mitigating
circumstances.]
Reports:
#19. "Universals," in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(New York: Macmillan, 1967), vol. 8:194-206. [The English
department library has this reference work.]
#20. Walter Stephens, "Desperately Seeking Satan:
Witchcraft and Censorship in The Name of the Rose,"
in Umberto Eco's Alternative, ed. Norma Bouchard and
Veronica Pravadelli (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), pp.
99-126. [On the conversation between William and Abbot Abo.]
#21. Carl Rubino, "The Invisible Worm: Ancients and Moderns
in The Name of the Rose," SubStance 14, no. 2
(1985): 54-63.
Wed., Spt. 27: Name of the Rose,
pp. 27-97: the monastery, its church, scriptorium,
and library.
Reports:
#22. Henry Osborne (ed.), Oxford Companion to Art
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1970, articles on "Romanesque" (pp. 1000-6),
and "Gothic" (pp. 490-94).
#23. Lorna Price, The Plan of St. Gall in Brief (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1982. NA 5843 .P74 1982.
Synopsis of a 3-volume study by Walter Horn and Ernest
Born (Berkeley 1979) that probably was Eco's major source
for the architectural plan and much of the physical
description of the monastery.
#24. Donald McGrady, "Eco's Bestiary: The Basilisk and the
Weasel," Italianist 12 (1992): 75-82.
#25. Umberto Eco and G. B. Zorzoli, The Picture History
of Inventions, trans. Anthony Lawrence (New York:
Macmillan, 1963), pp. 105-11, "The Development of Optics."
Relevant particularly to William's debate with Lawrence
the glazier about optics, in "Vespers," pp. 84-92.
Mon., Oct. 2: Name of the Rose, pp.
101-9-- Second Day: Matins, and A. C. Doyle, "The
Bascombe Valley Mystery." Eco appropriates significant
details from this Sherlock Holmes story.
Reports
#26. Werner Huller, "Semiotics Narrated: Umberto Eco's
The Name of the Rose," Semiotica 64 (1987):
41-57.
#27. David Richter, "Eco's Echoes: Semiotic Theory and Detective
Fiction in The Name of the Rose, Studies in
Twentieth-Century Literature 10 (Spring 1986): 213-36.
Wed., Oct. 4: Name of the Rose,
pp. 121-35; also 79-80, 95-96, and Adso's dream during the
Dies irae at Malachi's funeral, pp. 426-38. Reports on laughter:
#28. Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages,
trans. Willard R. Trask (New York: Harper, 1953), pp.
417-35, "Jest and Earnest in Medieval Literature."
#29. Rocco Capozzi, "Palimpsests and Laughter: The
Dialogical Pleasure of Unlimited Intertextuality in
The Name of the Rose," Italica 66, no. 4
(1989): 412-18.
#30. Myrna Solotorevsky, "The Borgesian Intertext as
an Object of Parody in Eco's The Name of the Rose,"
Hebrew Studies in Literature and the Arts 17 (1989): 82-97.
#31. Rene de Costa, Humor in Borges (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 2000, pp. 15-76.
#32. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World,
trans. Helen Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1984. Chap. 4, "Banquet Imagery in Rabelais,"
pp. 278-302. PQ 1694 .B313 1984.
Mon., Oct. 9: Columbus Day observed
Wed., Oct. 11: The detective story as
a genre with special reference to Edgar Allan
Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of
Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter."
#33. John T. Irwin, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"
American Literary History 4, no. 2 (Summer 1992):
187-206.
#34. Burton R. Pollin, "Poe's `Murders in the Rue Morgue':
The Ingenious Web Unravelled," Studies in the American Renaissance:
1977, ed. Joel Myerson. Boston: Twayne, 1978. Pp. 235-59.
#35. Joseph J. Moldenhauer, "Murder as a Fine Art: Basic
Connections between Poe's Aesthetics, Psychology,
and Moral Vision," PMLA 83 (May 1968):284-97.
#36. Lianhna Klenman Babener, "The Shadow's Shadow: The
Motif of the Double in Edgar Allan Poe's `The Purloined
Letter'." In The Purloined Poe, ed. John P. Muller
and William J. Richardson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1988. Pp. 83-99.
#37. David Van Leer, "Detecting Truth: The World of the Dupin
Tales." In New Essays on Poe's Major Tales, ed. Kenneth
Silverman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993),
pp. 65-91. PS2642.F43N48 1993 (on reserve).
Mon., Oct. 16: Name of the Rose, pp.
160-68, the "cryptography" chapter. Read Eco's sources:
Poe, "The Gold Bug," and A. C. Doyle, "The Adventure of
the Dancing Men."
#38. Shawn Rosenheim, "`The King of Secret Readers':
Edgar Poe, Cryptography, and the Origins of the Detective
Story," English Literary History 56 (Summer 1989): 375-400.
Wed., Oct. 18: Name of the Rose,
pp. 187-220: the poor, heretics, lepers, those who are
about to be persecuted by the Inquisitor, Bernardo Gui;
also read ahead to pp. 369-407, Remigio's trial for heresy
by Bernardo Gui, and Ubertino's flight from the monastery. The influence of Michel Foucault becomes most apparent here:
#39. Michel Mollat, The Poor in the Middle Ages,
trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1986), pp. 1-11, 38-53, 59-69, 119-90. [Read selectively;
what is needed is a historical portrait of poverty that
will illuminate Salvatore's story at pp. 186-95.]
#40. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, trans.
Richard Howard (New York, 1965), pp. 3-37, "Stultifera Navis"
['The Ship of Fools']. Cultural interpretation of leposy.
#41. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, trans.
Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). Read
selectively. The main points that we need, to apply to
Eco's novel, are the contrast between the medieval uses
of torture and the modern uses of imprisonment.
Mon., Oct. 23: Name of the Rose, pp. 221-56,
Adso's encounter with the peasant girl
#42. Noam Flinker, "Eco's Intertextual Dialogue: Adso on
Aristotle, Revelation and Canticles." Hebrew Studies
in Literature and the Arts, 17 (1989): 98-115.
#43. Enzo Neppi, "Love and Difference in The Name of
the Rose," Hebrew Studies in Literature and the
Arts 17 (1989): 52-81.
Wed., Oct. 25: Name of the Rose,
pp. 259-99: intertextuality and the "open text."
Reports:
#44. Rocco Capozzi, "Intertextuality and Semiosis: Eco's
education semiotique," Recherches semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry
3 (1983): 284-96.
#45. Victoria Vernon, "The Demonics of (True) Beliefs:
Treacherous Texts, Blasphemous Interpretations and
Murderous Readers," Modern Language Notes, 107,
no. 5 (Dec. 1992): 840-54.
#46. Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in this Class?
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp. 21-
67, "Literature in the Reader."
#47. Umberto Eco, The Role of the Reader (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1979), pp. 3-43, "Introduction." P 909 .E28.
#48. Umberto Eco, The Open Work, trans. Anna Cangogni (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 1-23, "The Poetics
of the Open Work." BH 39 .E2913 1989.
#49. Deborah Parker, "Answering Idle Questions: Open
and Closed Readers in The Name of the Rose." In
M. Thomas Inge, ed., Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's
The name of the Rose. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1988, Pp. 146-56.
Mon., Oct. 30: Name of the Rose,
pp. 335-38 [5-Prime], the debate on the poverty of Jesus
and his apostles. Reports:
#50. John D. Jones, "Introduction," in Hervaeus Natalis,
The Poverty of Christ and the Apostles, trans.
Jones (Toronto: Pontifical Institute, 1999), pp. 1-18.
#51. M.-D. Lambert, "The Franciscan Crisis under John XXII,"
Franciscan Studies (1972): 123-43.
#52. John D. Jones, "St. Thomas Aquinas and the Defense of Mendicant
Poverty," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association 70 (1996): 179-92.
Wed., Nv. 1: Name of the Rose,
pp. 358-68 [5-Sext], the central episode of the "defeated
detective." We will follow this theme in Poe's "The Purloined
Letter," A.C. Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia," and Jorge
Borges, "Death and the Compass" (Labyrinths, pp.
76-87.
#53. Maurice J. Bennett, "Detective Fiction of Poe and Borges,"
Comparative Literature 35 (1983):262-75.
#54. John T. Irwin, "A Clew to a Clue: Locked Rooms and Labyrinths
in Poe and Borges," Raritan 10, no. 4 (Spring
1994):40-57.
#55. Jeanne F. Bedell, "Borges' Study in Scarlet: `Death and
the Compass' as Detective Fiction and Literary Criticism,"
Clues: A Journal of Detection 6, no. 2 (Fall-Winter,
1985):109-22. Copy on file in the English office.<
Mon., Nv. 6: Psychoanalytic approaches to Poe's
"The Purloined Letter." Read The Purloined Poe,
pp. 28-155. Reports:
#56. Claude Richard, "Destin, Design, Dasein: Lacan, Derrida and `The Purloined
Letter'," Iowa Review 12, no. 4 (Fall 1981):1-11.
#57. Servanne Woodward, "Lacan and Derrida on `The Purloined
Letter'," Comparative Literature 26, no. 1 (1989):
39-49.
Wed., Nv. 8: Name of the Rose, 397-407, Jorge's
sermon on the Antichrist: the Apocalyptic theme. Reports:
#58. Michael Cohen, "The Hounding of Baskerville: Allusion
and Apocalypse in Eco's Name of the Rose," in
Naming the Rose, ed. M. Thomas Inge (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1988), pp. 65-76.
#60. Bernard McGinn, "Portraying Antichrist in the
Middle Ages," in The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle
Ages, ed. Werner Berbeke, Daniel Verhelst and Andries Welkenhuysen.
Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1988. pp. 1-48.
Copy on file in the English office.
#61. Richard Landes, "Lest the Millenium be Fulfilled:
Apocalyptic Expectations and the Pattern of Western
Chronology 100-800 CE." In The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle
Ages, ed. Werner Berbeke, Daniel Verhelst and Andries Welkenhuysen.
Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1988. pp. 137-211.
Copy on file in the English office.
#62. Lois P. Zamore, "Apocalyptic Visions and Visionaries
in The Name of the Rose, in Naming the Rose,
ed. Thomas Inge (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1988):31-47.
#63. Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality, trans.
William Weaver (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986),
"The Gods of the Underworld," pp. 87-132. PQ 4865 / .C6 / 77 / 1986.
Apocalypticism as a contemporary theme.
Mon., Nv. 13: Name of the Rose, pp. 411-60,
Sixth Day.
Reports:
#64. H. Aram Veeser, "Holmes Goes to Carnival: Embarrassing
the Signifier in Eco's Anti-Detective Novel." In H. Thomas
Inge, ed., Naming the Rose (Jackson: University Press
of Mississippi, 1988), pp. 101-15. Mainly on Eco's use
of the Coena Cypriani.
#65. Jean DelFattore, "Eco's Conflation of Theology
and Detection in The Name of the Rose, in Naming
the Rose, ed. M. Thomas Inge (Jackson: University Press
of Mississippi, 1988), pp. 77-89.
Wed., Nov. 15: Viewing of the Sean Connory film,
"The Name of the Rose."
Mon., Nov. 20: Name of the Rose, pp. 463-502,
Seventh Day. The detective as the murderer's "double"; Eco's reconstruction
of Aristotle's theory of comedy.
Reports
#66. Lianhna K. Babener, "The Shadow's Shadow: The Motif of the Double
in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'," in The
Purloined Poe, ed. John P. Muller and William J. Richardson
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), pp. 83-99.
#67. David Helman, The Perfect Murder (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1989), pp. 23-36 and 93-100.
Seventh Day, continued. Eco's reconstruction
of Aristotle's theory of comedy.
#68. Leon Golden, "Aristotle on Comedy," Journal of
Aesthetics and Art History 42 (1984): 283-90.
#69. Leon Golden, "Eco's Reconstruction of Aristotle's
Theory of Comedy in The Name of the Rose," Classical
and Modern Literature 6, no. 4 (Summer 1986): 239-49.
Mon.-Wed., Nv. 27 and 29: Paul Auster's City of Glass
REPORTS:
#70. Madeleine Sorapure, "The Detective and the Author:
City of Glass," in Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays
on Paul Auster, ed. Dennis Barone (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1995), pp. 71-87.
#71. Chris Tysh, "From One Mirror to Another: The Rhetoric
of Disaffiliation in City of Glass." Review of
Contemporary Fiction 14, no. 1 (Spring, 1994):46-52.
#72. William Lavender, "The Novel of Critical Engagement:
Paul Auster's City of Glass," Contemporary
Literature 34, no. 2 (Summer, 1993):219-39.
#73. Norma Rowen, "The Detective in Search of the Lost Tongue
of Adam: Paul Auster's City of Glass," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
32, no. 4 (Summer, 1991):224-34. Copy on file in the
English office.
#74. Alison Russell, "Deconstructing The New York
Trilogy: Paul Auster's Anti-Detective Fiction,"
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 31, no. 2 (Winter,
1990):71-84. Copy on file in the English office.
Mon., Dec. 4, Wed., Dec. 6, and Wed., Dec. 13:
Colloquium on The Name of the Rose
Location: University Center, 3rd Floor. Friends and
family members welcome. Details of the colloquium will be
announced later.