SYLLABUS


      (AJ34130) Constructing the Book, Reconstructing the Text (Sociologie literárního textu)


                                            Spring 2019

                           G316 (Department Conference Room), 12:00 p.m.


                                 doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD

                                      Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, PhD.




Friday, March 1^st: The Rules of Art

Read and see the following:

·         Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art (Maldon, MA: Polity Press, 1996), pp. 1-46
(“Prologue”); pp. 47-173 (“Part I”)

·         Genius (2016), dir. M. Grandage (just for the fun of it)



Friday, March 15^th: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Q1, Q2 and F1)

Read the following:

·         John Jowett, Shakespeare and Text, Oxford Shakespeare Topics series (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007)

·         Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, edited, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Arden
Shakespeare, Third Series, pp. 74-94 (“The Composition of Hamlet”); pp. 139-164 (“1.1” of Hamlet Q2
(1604-5))

·         Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, edited, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Texts of 1603 and
1623, The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, pp. 1-12 (“The relationship of this volume to the Arden
Hamlet”); pp. 41-53 (“Scene 1” of Hamlet Q1 (1603)); pp. 173-185 (“1.1” of Hamlet F1 (1623))

·         Recommended: Bruce R. Smith, editor, The Cambridge Guide to the World of Shakespeare,
vol. 1 (Cambridge: CUP 2016), pp. 323-373 (“Printing, Publishing, Textuality”)



Friday, March 29^th: John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes” and Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Windhover”

Read the following:

·         Elizabeth Cook, John Keats (in the Oxford Authors series) (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1990), pp. xvii-xxxvi (“Introduction”); 252-264 (“The Eve of St. Agnes”); 273-274 (“La belle
dame sans merci”); 595-601 (Notes)

·         Jack Stillinger, Reading “The Eve of St. Agnes”: The Multiples of Complex Literary
Transaction (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 3-33

·         John Pick, edited, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover (in the Merrill Literary Casebook
Series) (Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishing, 1969)

·         Norman H. MacKenzie, edited, The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1990), pp. xxv-lxxiv (“Introduction”); 144-147 (“The Windhover” and MS plates
1-3); 376-384 (Commentary on “The Windhover”)

·         Norman H. MacKenzie, edited with annotations, transcriptions, and an introduction, The
Later Poetic Manuscripts of Gerard Manley Hopkins (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1991),
pp. 1-20 (“Introduction”); pp. 120-125 (MS plates for “The Windhover”)


Discussion of the class’s handling of the apparatus for the novella The Cult of the Purple Rose: A
Phase of Harvard Life (1902) by Shirley Everton Johnson. (For this project, the class will have
already been divided into three groups.)



Friday, April 12^th: Walt Whitman’s “Drum-Taps”

Read the following:

·         Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley, edited, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
(Comprehensive Reader’s Edition) (New York: New York University Press, 1965), pp. xxvii-liii
(“Introduction”); 279-327 (“Drum-Taps”)

·         Ed Folsom, “Appearing in Print: Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass,” in Ezra
Greenspan, edited, The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995), pp. 135-165

·         Kenneth M. Price, “Electronic Scholarly Editions,” Chapter 24 in A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies, edited by Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008)
<http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS>



Friday, May 10^th, 14:10: Student Presentations

These presentations will be based on commissioned papers. These papers should illustrate a
particular problem, editorial issue, or consideration of the traditional handling of one or more
editorial situations in regard to the student’s own dissertation topic. Given the detailed nature
of the topics covered during this course, these papers (and their corresponding presentation to the
group at this Friday session) should be as concrete as possible. We are not looking for vague
(i.e., general) engagements, but something that displays the student’s understanding of and ability
to handle issues of editorship.