The English 215 Critical Methods "Crit-Off"

Kelly Gilpin offers this text in search of a theory: "Dead Man's Dump" by Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918). Here is a link for the text:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1742.html

Psychoanalytic Criticism:  

Hanna Badalov, Joyce, "The Dead" http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/dead.htm

Marxist Criticism:  

Andrew Crump, Pope, "The Rape of the Lock" http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/

Jeffrey Judge, Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html

I was thinking about doing a deconstructive marxist analysis of Swift's A Modest Proposal and was wondering if you had any comments on my intention. Do you think this piece will work well with the critical methods I plan on implementing ? Should I stick with a strictly marxist interpretation or will my interpretation benefit from incorporating a deconstructive view?

New Criticism:  

Stephanie Seale, RPO -- Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ozymandias  I selected Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" to test critical methods on.  I don't need it for a 212 paper or anything, but I was looking at it, and it has me kind of stumped.  I think New Criticism could work.. maybe a little Marxism related to Ozymandias and the sculptor.  I'm sure others could be applied as well..

Structuralism: 

Deconstruction:   

Abby Lerner, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels:

I'm doing a deconstructive analysis of gulliver's travels (the fourth voyage) for my eng 212 paper, and i know that it is a relatively long text, but i am including a link to the text that i found online, figuring there might be a good "representative chunk" in there to look at.   
i'm kind of all over the place as far as getting all of my ideas together, even though i generally know where my paper is going. is there any advice you can offer me?  abby   and here's the text: http://mural.uv.es/esase/chap4-1.html

Reader-Response Criticism:  

Elizabeth Kaldor, Jonathan Swift, "A Lady's Dressing Room" Thought I'd suggest this fun Jonathan Swift poem that I've been studying for my 212 paper as a topic for exploration. I imagine some classmates have already read it, and if not it won't take too long. I suppose I'd suggest reader response, feminism and cultural criticism. I can improvise a summary of the application of the methods in class if you'd like, but I haven't actually prepared one.  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/s97ld/
 

Kelly Gilpin, Rosenberg, "Dead Man's Dump" http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1742.html

I thought that Reader Response would be effective, with all of the bones "crunching" and dead bodies "huddled." Strong words = Stong images = Strong responses.

Feminist Criticism:  

Shira Hoffman, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," I was thinking we could do The Tale of Peter Rabbit if we have time, the webpage is complete with pictures. I was thinking Marxist criticism and a little bit of feminism.

Dalya Hassan, I was thinking about using feminist, marxist criticism and maybe a little structuralism on this story.  What do you think?  http://www.4literature.net/Kate_Chopin/Desiree_s_Baby/

Cultural Criticism: 

Amentje Elliot, Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (No online text available.) 

My paper is on Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up." I'm not sure where I'm going with it. In fact, I was hoping to avoid consciously applying any sort of "method" to the paper. Please send advice at your earliest convenience.
 
p.s. Cultural Criticism (Marxism), I guess, would be appropriate.

        Before class, meet with your group to match any well-known online "text" to the theory you have chosen.  It has to be a well-known text in order for the class to understand your critical analysis without a lengthy plot summary or paraphrase (or performance of the "poem" if you're New Criticism!).  Prepare to tell the class (5-7 minutes, max.!) what your theory says about the text you have chosen.  Give examples of the evidence you are interpreting, and the reasoning your theory uses to make sense of it.  (You will be able to use the computer and projector to show us your evidence, but please send me the URL before class so that I can embed it in this page for rapid access.)  You do not have to develop a complete interpretation of the work.  One decent, write-able insight will be enough.  It can be a work of literature you currently are studying in another course.  You also can issue formal or informal challenges to the other groups to take on the same online text.