Scott Simpkins

"Beautifully indeed!  But she does every thing well.  Have you 

seen her peel a banana?  It is like listening to a symphony."

                       - Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters,

                                 Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

 

 

 Professor, Department of English, UNT

 Lecturer, Cyber Semiotic Institute / Semiotic Institute Online

 Leader, Simpkins Research Group

   

 


 

Office:

      Auditorium Building, 205
             Handouts:

              2323 Syllbus.pdf

4150 Syllabus.pdf

Caleb Williams Notes
Godwin essay
Shelley, "Transformation"
I. A, Richards, Practical Criticism
Book of Judges 1
Hirsch, "Objective Interpretation"
Kuhn, "Postscript"
Benjamin, "Translator"
A. C. Doyle, The Valley of Fear
Stokes, The Color of Sex
 

Office Phone:

      940.369.8954
    Book of Judges 2
Jakobsons
Hemingway, "Macomber"
Barthes, "Power" & "Toys"
Barthes, from Mythologies
             
 

Email:

      scotts@unt.edu    
              Fruman
 

Fax:

      940.565.4355
(to "Atten: Scott Simpkins")

   

            Fruman/Simpkins email
        Other Links:     Baxter
          Semioticon
    Baxter/Simpkins email
          Semiotic Review of Books
    Simpkins, "Limited"
          Literary Semiotics: A Critical Approach
 

 

Book of Judges1
Book of Judges2
Oates, "Where Are You...?"
Chopin
 

FALL 2010
Classes:

       REMEMBER: Your collected essays are due on the last day of class!   Dancing Scene
Derrida, Umbrella
Simpkins-Derrida
Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers"
Glaspell, Trifles
          Syllabus:   Gallagher
  4150
          Hirsch, "Introduction"
Hirsch, "Afterword"
 

 Th

3:30-6:20

Lang 201

 

     

See syllabus in right column

Reading Assignment Schedule:

Reading assignments will consist of “theoretical” works that you will then “apply” to literary texts in a workshop-like fashion.


Week 3

- Charles Baxter, “The Next Building I Plan to Bomb” (handout)

- Baxter/Simpkins email exchange (handout)

Reinhart
Lanser
Fish, "Acceptable"
Becker, "Normal?"

Self-Report Tracking Chart
Barthes, "Author" & "Work"
Foucault, "Author"
 

 2323 (both sections)

     
   
 
       Week 3 -

- Godwin, Caleb Williams