For 4.28

PLEASE NOTE: This morning (4.22) I returned via email the second drafts of your first essays. If you haven't gotten yours, please let me know immediately.

For Monday, we'll dabble a little in psychoanalytic theory rather than deal with it extensively. Please read the excerpt from Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis in Modern Literary Theory, and the relevant pages in the introduction to that section, if you haven't done so already.

In addition, read at least half of King Lear over the break. Be sure to read at least the first two, if not three, acts of the play. We'll be dealing with Lear through all the critical lenses we've covered this term: Marxism, Feminism, Post-Colonialism, even Genre. For Monday, choose a specific scene or part of a scene from the play and try to begin explaining how a critic from one of these schools might deal with it in a 250 to 400 word blog.

And be sure to bring your texts to class--we'll be working with the Lear throughout the last weeks of the term, and you'll need the script.

Finally, as a test to see who reads the entirety of these entries and in the interest of sanity, let's push the due date for the second essay back to 3pm on Friday, May 2nd. Hope you all have an extraordinary break.