English 574T Oral Report
The oral report will consist of a 1) 10-15 minute oral report, 2) a
short (3-5 pages) paper, and 3) a handout (enough copies for the whole
class and the instructor). For the report, you'll discuss an
article or book chapter from the list below and 1) summarize its main
points and critical approach, 2) assess its argument (is it persuasive?
well-supported?) and its usefulness (does it enhance a reader's
understanding of the text or topic? does it offer a thought-provoking
critical perspective?). The paper should cover the same ground
but should not be identical to the report; in other words, the report
should not simply be a reading of the paper. The handout could be
a short outline or some key quotes or anything else that will help your
listeners follow your report.
By next week, I want you to circle three items on the list below and
number them in order of preference so I can make a schedule of reports.
Berman, Jeffrey. Narcissism
and the Novel. NY, London: New York UP, 1990.
Chapter 3: "Attachment and Loss in Wuthering Heights."
Brooks, Peter. "Virtue and Terror: The Monk." English Literary History 40 (1973):
249-63.
Chaplin, Sue. "Romance and Sedition in the 1790s:
Radcliffe's The Italian and
the Terrorist Text." Romanticism:
The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 7 (2001): 177-90.
Christensen, Jerome. Lord Byron's
Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society.
Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
Chapter 1: "Theorizing Byron's Practice: The
Performance of Lordship and the Poet's Career."
Cottom, Daniel. "I Think; Therefore, I Am Heathcliff." English Literary History 70 (2003):
1067-88.
Dennis, Ian. "Cain: Lord
Byron's Sincerity." Studies in
Romanticism 41 (2002): 655-74.
Durant, David. "Ann Radcliffe and the Conservative Gothic."
SEL 22 (1982): 519-30.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Byron and the
Victorians. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Chapter 2: "The creation of
Byronism."
Chapter 4: "Byron at the margins: Emily
Brontë and the fate of Milo"
Gallardo, Ximena. "'Who Are You?': Alien/Woman as Posthuman
Subject in Alien Resurrection."
Reconstruction: Studies in
Contemporary Culture 4 (2004).
<http://www.reconstruction.ws/043/gallardoc.htm>
Garber, Frederick. "Self, Society, Value, And the Romantic
Hero." Comparative Literature
19 (1967): 321-33.
Gelder, Ken. Reading the
Vampire. London, NY: Routledge, 1994.
Chapter 6: Vampires in the (Old) New World: Anne
Rice's Vampire Chronicles."
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman
Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.
New Haven, London: Yale UP, 1979.
Chapter on Wuthering
Heights.
Goldberg, Leonard S. "'This Gloom . . . Which Can Avail Thee
Nothing': Cain and
Skepticism." Criticism:
A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 41 (1999): 207-32.
Hall, Jean. "The Evolution of the Surface Self: Byron's
Poetic Career." Keats-Shelley
Journal 36 (1987): 134-57.
Harvey, Anne-Marie. "Terminating the Father: Technology,
Paternity, and Patriarchy in Terminator
2." Masculinities
3 (1995): 25-42.
Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. "Melmoth
the Wanderer and Gothic Existentialism." SEL 21 (1981): 665-79.
Holland, Tom. "Undead Byron." Byromania:
Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.
Ed. Frances Wilson. London: Macmillan; NY: St. Martin's,
1999. 154-65.
Inness, Sherrie A. Tough
Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture.
Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.
Chapter 6: "Tough Women in Outer Space: The Final
Frontier." (Discussion of Alien films)
Manning, Peter J. Byron and
His Fictions. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1978.
Chapter 1: "Perspectives on the Hero." (Discussion
of The Corsair and Lara)
Chapter 2: "The Sublime Self and the Single Voice."
(Discussion of Childe Harold, Canto 3 and Manfred)
Chapter 4: "Rebels Cosmic and Domestic."
(Discussion of Cain)
Masse, Michelle A. "'He's More Myself Than I Am':
Narcissism and Gender in Wuthering
Heights." Psychoanalyses/Feminisms.
Eds. Peter L. Rudnytsky and Andrew M. Gordon. Albany, NY: State U
of New York P, 2000: 135-53.
McDayter, Ghislaine. "Conjuring Byron: Byromania, Literary
Commodification and the Birth of Celebrity." Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture. Ed. Frances
Wilson. London: Macmillan; NY: St. Martin's, 1999. 43-62.
McGann, Jerome J. Byron and
Romanticism. Ed. James Soderholm. Cambridge Studies
in Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Chapter 2: Byron and Wordsworth (Discussion of
Manfred) The next entry is the same text.
McGann, Jerome J. Byron and
Wordsworth. Nottingham: U of Nottingham School of English
Studies, 1999. (Discussion of Manfred)
McGinley, Kathryn. "Development of the Byronic Vampire:
Byron, Stoker, Rice." The Gothic
World of Anne Rice. Eds. Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B.
Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular
Press, 1996. 71-90.
Nicholson, Andrew. "Napoleon's 'Last Act' and Byron's Ode."
Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic
Culture and Criticism 9 (2003): 68-81.
Rauch, Stephen. Neil Gaiman's
The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth.
Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2003.
Schock, Peter A. "The 'Satanism' of Cain in Context: Byron's Lucifer
and the War Against Blasphemy." Keats-Shelley
Journal 44 (1995): 182-215.
Smith, Jennifer. Anne
Rice: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn., London:
Greenwood P, 1996.
Chapter 4: "The Vampire Lestat."
Thorslev, Peter L. The Byronic
Hero: Types and Prototypes. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 1962.
Chapter 1: "Our Last Great Age of Heroes."
(Introduces types of Byronic Heroes and their precursors)
Chapter 4: "The Gothic Villain."
Chapter 10: "Four Turkish Tales." (Discusses
The Corsair and Lara.)
Chapter 11: "Two Metaphysical Dramas."
(Discusses Manfred and Cain)
Tuite, Clara. "Enlightenment Pornography, the Confessional State,
Homosexual Persecution and The Monk."
Romanticism on the Net 8
(1997).
<http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n8/005766ar.html>
Waxman, Barbara Frey. "Postexistentialism in the Neo-Gothic
Mode: Anne Rice's Interview
with the Vampire." Mosaic
25 (1992): 79-97.
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