Updates: Readings and Midterm

If you click under the assignment tab, you'll see that I've placed our readings on In the Skin of a Lion on electronic reserve. To find them, simply follow this link and then choose "View Course Reserves" under the Do It Yourself menu. Then, search under my name and you'll find links to PDF versions of the three texts I've asked you to read.

It will be very important for you to have hard copies of these articles, so please print your own copies and bring them with you to class. Please have all three read by next week.

The Midterm will be happening on Thursday October 21 and will cover all the material we read prior to In the Skin of a Lion from both the Culler book and the Richter anthology.

The format of the exam will be short and paragraph answers, with perhaps a few multiple choice questions thrown in. Review the gist of the essays from Richter that we read and make sure to review the concepts Culler talks about. Questions about theory, literature, meaning etc. will be a central part of what you will need to remember from Culler.

We will discuss this in more detail in class on Tuesday.