Spring 2009
Wednesdays
Pafford 309
Dr. Randy Hendricks
Office hours: By appointment.
TLC 2237
678-839-4876
rhendric@westga.edu
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Selected Bibliography Expectations and Assignments |
Expectations: Scrupulous preparation for class, faithful attendance, enthusiastic participation (of which listening attentively to the views of others is a major part), professional courtesy to all other members of the seminar, meeting all deadlines for assignments, and consultation with the instructor on all major assignments and on any other matters that might require it. All of these behaviors are prerequisite to the instructor's acceptance of the assignments below for evaluation.
Assignments
Discussion Points: Students will lead discussion by
preparing
brief informal responses to assignments to bring before the
class.
The responses may take the form of questions or observations.
You'll
present them orally and turn in a written version, which might be a
short
paragraph and should not exceed a page in length. Each student
will
present a point for discussion at every other
meeting. When we have multiple texts, as
with the poems, choose to comment on what interests you
most.
Those who are not
presenting will have the primary responsibility for responding to
presenters.
No student will be expected to present a discussion point at a meeting
during
which he or she makes an oral report. 10% of grade
Oral Report: Each member of the seminar will prepare
a15-20
minute teaching presentation on one of the works we study. These
assignments will be worked out at the first meeting. Each report
should include:
1. A brief discussion of the work
in relation to Melville's career
2. A summary of significant
criticism
on the work: including assessments by three critics from
the
list of critics.
3. The student's original
observations/interpretations
of the primary text. The report should be a teaching
presentation,
aimed at delivering information,
but also prompting discussion and questions. 10% of grade.
See Report Assignments
Brief Analytical Paper. Explication or analysis of some
element of a work or works studied early in the semester. Though
the paper topic may be prompted
by secondary reading, no secondary sources are required for this
exercise
in close reading of text(s). Due March 4. 20% of grade
Directions: The paper should be 4-5 pages, typed and double
spaced;
controlled by a central idea--which might range from an interpretation
to simply
pointing out a problem Melville presents for readers trying to
interpret
his work; and should be distinguished by ample close analysis of the
literary
text(s). This
last requirement may be met by an extended discussion of a single
passage
or briefer, connected discussions of multiple passages.
Seminar Paper: Each member of the seminar will
prepare
a 12-15 page paper on a topic arrived at in consultation with the
instructor.
The paper must argue
an original thesis and be thoroughly grounded in appropriate Melville
criticism. 50 % of grade. An annotated bibliography is
required
along with the research paper--see below. Note that this
assignment
is not a substitute for the Works Cited section of your paper.
You
may well annotate a source you consult but do not cite in your final
paper.
Drafts due April 15. Final draft due May 6.
Annotated Bibliography: provide a list of 8-10
secondary
sources (journal articles, book chapters, or books) you consult
as
part of
your research for the paper. Provide a standard MLA Works Cited
entry for each, and provide after each entry a brief descriptive
note.
Do
not evaluate or analyze the article/chapter. For example:
Mathison,
John
K. "Nelly Dean and the Power of Wuthering Heights."
Nineteenth-Century
Fiction 11. 106-29. Rpt. in
Wuthering Heights: An Anthology of Criticism. Ed.
Alastair
Everitt. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. 84-110.
Mathison argues that the power of the novel derives from the fact
that the narrator, Nelly Dean, is too "normal" and
"healthy" to comprehend the exorbitant passions and actions of
characters
such as Heathcliff and Catherine. The powerful
effect on readers occur as they realize the inadequacy of the "normal"
to interpret the deeper and truer feelings of the main
characters and are forced to become active advocates for Heathcliff and
Catherine in ways that could not occur with an
omniscient narrator or a less admirable first-person narrator. It
is in this power that Brontë has created a genuine work of
art.
Paper Critique: (10% of grade) Each member of the seminar
will
distribute three copies of a complete draft of his/her seminar paper on
April 15--one copy for the instructor and one copy each for the primary
and secondary reviewers. Note: the required annotated
bibliography
need not be distributed at this time.
Note: By asking for e-mail
distribution we changed this procedure. Everyone gets a copy.
Primary Reviewer--prepare a one page, typed, double-spaced response
to the draft commenting on each of the following four areas: (1) focus
and
significance, (2) depth and quality of development, (3) quality and
appropriateness of research revealed in the draft, and (4) additional
areas
as dictated by the
individual paper. It is also assumed that comments will be made
on the typescript of the draft itself.
Three copies of this primary review will be distributed on April
22--to
the instructor, to the author, and to the secondary reviewer. Again, let's do this by e-mail so everyone
can see the work. Copy and bring everything to class.
Secondary Reviewer--prepare a half page, typed, doubled-spaced
response
to the draft in light of the primary review--seconding important
observations
made by primary reviewer, adding comment on areas not covered by
primary
reviewer, and/or offering alternative points for
consideration.
Bring three copies
to class on April 27. Same
modification as above.
Note: The written version of both reviews may be longer than
the
assigned length if the reviewer deems more space is necessary to do the
job. Both primary
and secondary reviews will be presented in an informal oral format
on April 29, followed by equally informal responses from the author and
instructor.
Primary and secondary reviewers for each paper assigned below:
Author
Primary
Secondary
Rosie
Heather
Amy
Heather
Amy
Kim
Amy
Kim
Nancy
Kim
Nancy
Rod
Nancy
Rod
Rosie
Rod
Rosie
Heather
Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville: A Biography 2
vols.
PS2386 .P37 1996
Duban, James, Melville’s
Major Fiction: Politics, Theology, and Imagination,
PS2387. D8
1983
Chase, Richard, Herman Melville: A Critical Study, PS2386
.C5
Leyda, Jay, The Melville Log, 2 vols. 1 PS2386LV
Sealts, Merton M., Jr., Melville’s
Reading: Revised and Enlarged Edition, PS2388 .B6 S43 1988
Melville, Herman, The Writings of Herman Melville, Vol.
14, Correspondence, PS2380 F68
Melville, Herman, The Writings of Herman Melville,
Vol. 15, Journals, PS2380 F68
Thompson, Lawrence, Melville’s
Quarrel
with God, PS2388 R4 .T5
Markels, Julian, Melville and the
Politics
of Identity, PS2384 M62 M27 1993
Branch, Watson G., Melville: The Critical Heritage,
PS2386.B81X
Vincent, Howard P. The Tailoring of Melville’sWhite
Jacket, PS2384 W53 V5
Hayes, Kevin J., The Critical Response to Herman Melville’sMoby
Dick, PS2384 M62 C76
1994
Higgins & Parker, Critical Essays on Herman Melville’s
Moby Dick, Ps2384 M62 C75 1992
Davis, Clark, After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of
Moby Dick, PS2387 .D37 1995
Higgins & Parker, Critical Essays on Herman Melville’s
Pierre, PS2384 .P53 C75
Creech, James, Closet Writing/Gay Reading: The Case of Melville’s
Pierre, PS2384. P53 C74
1993
Burkholder, Robert E. Critical Essays on Herman Melville’s
“Benito Cereno,”
PS2384. B42
C75 1992
McCall, Dan, The Silence of Bartleby, PS2384.B28 M3 1989
Fisher, Marvin, Going Under: Melville’s
Short Fiction and the American 1850’s, PS2387 .F54
Garner, Stanton, The Civil War World of Herman Melville,
PS2384. B3
Shurr, William H. The Mystery of
Iniquity: Melville as Poet, 1857-1891, PS2387. S5
Springer, Haskell S. The Merrill Studies in Billy Budd,
PS2384 B7 S6
Melville: A
Selected Bibliography
A Supplement to the Reserve List for English 6110--Herman
Melville:
Then and Now
Related General Critical Studies
Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel,
rev. ed.
Hoffman, Daniel G. Form and Fable in American Fiction.
Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam.
Matthiessen, F. O. American
Renaissance:
Art and Experience in the Age of Emerson and
Whitman.
Biographical Studies of Melville
Allen, Gay Wilson, Melville and His World.
Charvat, William, "Melville's Income." American
Literature, 15 (1943): 251–61.
Davis, Merrell R., "Melville's Midwestern Lecture Tour, 1859." Philological
Quarterly, 20 (1941): 46–57.
Delbanco, Andrew. Melville: His World and Work (2005)
Gilman, William H., "Melville's
Gohdes, Clarence, "Melville's Friend
'Toby.'"
Modern
Language Notes 59 (January
1944):
52– 55.
Hayford,
Harrison and Merrell Davis."Herman Melville
as Office–Seeker."Parts
1 & 2. Modern Language Quarterly 10
(June,
September 1949): 168–83, 377–88.
Heflin, Wilson L. "Melville's Third Whaler." Modern Language
Notes 64 (1949): 241–45.
Howard, Leon. Herman Melville: A Biography (1958)
Miller, Edwin H. Melville.
Quirk, Tom, "The Judge Dragged to the Bar: Melville, Shaw, and
the Wester Murder Trial." Melville
Society Extracts 84 (February 1991): 1–8.
Robertson–Lorant, Laurie. Melville:
A Biography.
Tanselle, G. Thomas, "The Sales of
Melville's
Books." Harvard Library Bulletin 18
(April
1969), 195–215.
Watson, Charles N., Jr. "The Estrangement of
Hawthorne and Melville."
Winslow, Richard E., III. "New Reviews Trace
Melville's Reputation." Melville Society
Extracts 89 (June 1992): 7–12.
Topical Studies
Bowen, Merlin. The Long Encounter: Self and
Experience
in the Writings of Herman Melville.
Brodhead, Richard H.
Cameron,
Dimock, Wai–chee.
Empire
for
Dryden, Edgar A. Melville's Thematics
of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth.
Franklin, H. Bruce. The Wake of the Gods: Melville's
Mythology. Stanford: Stanford UP,
1963.
Grenberg, Bruce L. Some Other
World
to Find: Quest and Negation in the Works of Herman
Melville.
Karcher, Carolyn L. Shadow over
the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence
in Melville's
Kearns, Michael S. "Phantoms of
the Mind: Melville's Criticism of Idealistic Psychology." ESQ:
A Journal of the American Renaissance 35.2 (1989): 147–60.
Lebowitz, Alan. Progress into
Silence:
A Study of Melville's Heroes.
Martin, Robert K. Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male
Friendship,
Social Critique, and Literary Form in
the
Sea Novels of Herman Melville.
Mason, Ronald. The Spirit Above
the Dust: A Study of Herman Melville.
Mitchell, Charles. "Melville and the Spurious
Truth of Legalism." The Centennial Review 12.1
(Winter 1968): 110–26.
Mushabac, Jane. Melville's
Humor:
A Critical Study.
Pommer, Henry F. Milton
and Melville.
Pops, Martin Leonard.The
Melville Archetype.
Rogin, Michael Paul. Subversive
Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville.
Rosenberry, Edward H. Melville
and the Comic Spirit.
Schulman, Robert. "The Serious Function fo
Melville's Phallic Jokes." American Literature
33.2 ( (1961): 170–94.
Sedgewick, William Ellery. Herman
Melville: The Tragedy of Mind.
Seelye, John. Melville: The
Ironic Diagram.
Zaller, Robert. "Melville
and the Myth of Revolution.' Studies in Romanticism
15 (Fall 1976)): 607–22.
Typee
Scorza, Thomas J. "Tragedy
in the State of
Abrams, Rober E. "Typee
and Omoo: Herman Melville and
the
Ungraspable Phantom of Identity."
White Jacket
Anderson, Charles Roberts. Melville in
the
Reynolds, Larry J. "Anti–Democratic
Emphasis in White Jacket." American Literature 48
March (1976)
Vincent, Howard P. The Tailoring of
Melville's
White Jacket. (on reserve)
Moby Dick
Cowan, Bainard. Exiled
Waters: Moby Dick and the Crisis of Allegory.
Martin, Robert K. Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male
Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form
in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville.
Smith, Gayle L. ”The Word and the Thing: Moby Dick and
the Limits of Language.“ ESQ: A
Journal of the American Renaissance 31.4 (1985): 260
71.
Zoellner, Robert. The
Canady, Nickolas. ”Pierre in
the
Domestic Circle.“ Studies in the Novel 18.4
(1986):
395 402.
Holder, Alan. ”Style and Tone in Melville’sPierre.“
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 60
(1982): 76 86.
Wilson, James C. ”The Sentimental Education of Pierre Glendinning:
An Exploration of the Causes and
Implications
of Violence in Melville’s Pierre.“ American
Transcendental Quarterly 1.13
(1987):
167 77.
The Short Tales
Baines, Barbara J. ”Ritualized Cannibalism in ”Benito Cereno’: Melville’s
‘Black letter’ Texts.“ ESQ:
A Journal of the American Renaissance 30. 3 (1984): 163 69.
Bickley, R. Bruce, Jr. The
Method of Melville’s Short Fiction.
Miller, Lewis H., Jr. ”‘Bartleby’ and the Dead Letter.“ Studies
in American Fiction 8 (1980): 1 12.
Rowland, Beryl. ”Melville’s Bachelors
and Maids: Interpretation Through
Symbol
and Metaphor.“ American Literature 41.3
(1969):
389 405.
Emery, Allan Moore. ”‘Benito Cereno’
and Manifest Destiny.“ Nineteenth Century Fiction
39.1 (June 1984)): 48 68.
Hoffman, Charles G. ”The Shorter Fiction of Herman
Melville.“
Yellin,
Jean Fagin. ”Black Masks: Melville’s
‘Benito Cereno.’“ American
Quarterly
22.3 (Fall 1970): 678 89.
Zagarell, Sandra A. ”Reenvisioning
The Confidence Man
Brodtkorb, Paul, Jr. ”The
Confidence
Man: The Con Man as Hero.“ Studies in the Novel 1.4
(Winter 1969): 421 35.
Bryant, John. ”Allegory and Breakdown in The Confidence Man: Melville’s
Comedy of Doubt.“ Philological
Quarterly 65.1 1986): 113 30.
Overmeer, Roelof.
”‘Something Further’: The Confdence
Man and Writing as a Disinterested Act.“
Etudes
De Lettres (1987): 43 53.
Parker, Hershel. ”Melville’s
Satire of Emerson and Thoreau.“ American Transcendental
Quarterly 7 (Summer 1970): 61 67.
. . .. ”The Metaphysics of Indian hating.“ Nineteenth
Century Fiction 8.2 (September
1963):
165-73.
Ramsey, William M. ”The Moot Points of Melville’s
Indian Hating.“
Shroeder, Johw
W. ”Sources and Symbols for Melville’s
Confidence Man.“ PMLA 66 (June
1951):
363 80.
Poetry
Adler, Joyce Sparer. War in Melville's
Imagination.
Georgoudaki, Catherine. ”Battle
Pieces and Aspects of the War:Melville’s
Poetic Quest for Meaning and Form in a
Fallen World.“ American Transcendental Quarterly
(March 1987): 21 32.
Kramer, Aaron.Melville’s
Poetry:
Toward the Enlarged Heart.
Robillard, Douglas. ”Theme and
Structure
in Melville’s John Marr and Other
Sailors.“
English
Language Notes 6 (March 1969): 187 92.
Shetley,
Stein, William Bysshe. The
Poetry of Melville’s Late Years:
Time, History, Myth, and Religion.
Warren, Robert Penn. Introduction to Selected
Poems of Heman Melville.
Billy Budd
Brodtkorb, Paul, Jr. ”The
Definitive
Billy
Budd: ‘But Aren’t it All Sham?’“
PMLA 82.7 (December
1967):
602 12.
Davis, R. Evan. ”An Allegory of America in Melville’sBilly
Budd.“ The Journal of Narrative
Technique
14.3 (Fall 1984): 172 81.
Durer, Christopher S. ”Captain Vere
and Upper Class Mores in Billy Budd.“ Studies in Short
Fiction (Winter 1982): 9 18.
Evans, Lyon, Jr. ”‘Too Good to Be True’: Subverting
Christian
Hope in Billy Budd.“
Hays, Peter L., and Richard Dilworth Rust.
”Something Healing: Fathers and Sons in Billy
Budd.“ Nineteenth Century Fiction 34.3
(December
1979): 326 36.
Johnson, Barbara. ”Melville’s
Fist:
The Execution of Billy Budd.“ Studies in Romanticism 18.4
(Winter 1979): 567 99.
Parker, Hershel.Reading
Billy
Budd.
Rathburn, John W. ”Billy Budd
and the Limits of Perception.“ Nineteenth Century Fiction 20.1
(June 1965): 19 34.
Rosenberry, Edward H. ”The Problem
of Billy Budd,“ PMLA 80.5
(December
1965) 489 98.
Schiffman, Joseph. ”Melville’s
Final Stage, Irony: A Re examination of Billy Budd
Criticism.“
American Literature 22 (1950): 128 36.
Scorza, Thomas J. In the Time
Before
Steamships: Billy Budd, The Limits of Politics, and
Modernity. DeKalb:
Zink, Karl E. ”Herman Melville and the Forms
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12 (Summer 1952): 131 39.
Other Sources for Melville study:
The standard scholarly editions of Melville work are the 15 volumes included in the Northwestern/Newberry editions, edited by Harrison Hayfor, Hershel Parker, et. al. In addition to the published texts--novels, stories, and poems, two of the volumes contain Melville's letters and journals. Each volume contains a historical and a textual note (essays) that are essential baseline research material.
The library recently began to subcribe to (but holds only the
most
recent numbers of Levithan: A Journal of Melville Studies and
Melville
Extracts (a newsletter), both published by The Herman Melville
Society:
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/John_L_Bryant/Melville/soc.html