SCHEDULE
Week 1 Introduction to Crime in Literature
Defining crime and its representations in literature; Historical and cultural contexts of crime in literature; Excerpts from gothic novels Mysteries of Udolpho (Radcliffe), Northanger Abbey (Austen), and Turn of the Screw (James)
Week 1 The psychology of crime in fiction: “Tell-tale Heart” and “Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)
Week 2 The psychology of crime in fiction and the first ‘crime novel’: Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), (Part One, Ch. 1-5)
Week 2 Crime and Punishment (Part One, Ch. 4 - Part Two, Ch. 3).
Week 3 Crime and Punishment (Part Two, Ch. 3 - Part Two, Ch. 7)
Week 3 Crime and Punishment (Part Three) In-class writing
Week 4 Crime and Punishment (Part Four, Ch. 6 - Part Five, Ch. 4)
Week 4 Crime and Punishment (Part Five, Ch. 5 - Part Six, Ch. 3).
Week 5 Crime and Punishment (Part Six, Ch. 7 - Epilogue)
Week 5 Conclusions on Dostoevsky
Week 6 In Cold Blood pp. 1-80
Week 6 In Cold Blood pp. 81-160
Week 7 In Cold Blood pp. 161-240
Week 7 In Cold Blood pp. 240-320
Week 8 Conclusions on Capote. Short paper due.
Week 8 Existential Crime and Punishment: The Trial (Arrest; Conversation; Initial Inquiry; In the Empty Courtroom)
Week 9 The Trial (The Flogger; The Uncle - Leni)
Week 9 The Trial (Lawyer, Manufacturer; Block, The Merchant)
Week 10 The Trial (In the Cathedral; The End) Concluding thoughts on Kafka
Week 10 Existential Crime and Punishment: Invitation to a Beheading
Week 11 Invitation to a Beheading
Week 11 Invitation to a Beheading
Week 12 Invitation to a Beheading
Week 12 Invitation to a Beheading
Week 13 Invitation to a Beheading
Week 13 Concluding thoughts on Nabokov
Week 14 Paper workshop
Week 14 Paper workshop
Final Exam Long Paper Due