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Overview

Introduction

Discourse Analysis and Foucault

• F. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense (N.A. 874-884)
• M. Foucault, Sections. (N.A. 1622-70)

• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Camile Wells Slights, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Courtsey Book Tradition"
• Reflection

• Disraeli, Sybil (Books I-IV)

Discourse Analysis and Foucault cont.

• M. Foucault,
  • "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"
  • "What is Critique"
  • "The Subject and Power"
• I Kant, "What is Enlightenment"

• The Taming of the Shrew
• Patricia Parker, "Construing Gender: Mastering Bianca"
• Reflection

• Disraeli, Sybil (Books IV-VI)
• Carlyle, Past and Present (Course Kit)
• Kingsley, Sermons (Course Kit)

Gender Studies

• I Kant, "Critique of Judgement"
• Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life"
• De Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"
• Foucault, "The History of Sexuality"
• Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
• Bordo, "Unbearable Weight"
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
  • "Between Men"
  • "Epistemology of the Closet"
• Butler, "Gender Trouble"

• Short Presentation

• Richard II
• Helen Ostovich, "Here in this Garden"
• Reflection

• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Chapters 1-24)

Class Cancelled

• If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody
• Jean Howard, "Staging the Absent Woman"
• Reflection

• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Chapters 1-24)
• Carlyle, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question"
• Mill, "The Negro Question"
• Elizabeth Browning "Runaway Slave at Pilgrim Point"

Feminisms

• Woolf, A Room of One's Own
• De Beauvoir, The Second Sex
• Wittig, "One is not born a woman"
• Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
• Harraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs

• Large Presentation

Class Cancelled

• Chambers, Vestiges
  • "The Bodies of Space"
  • "General Considerations"
  • Hypothesis of the Development"
  • Macleay System of Animated Nature"
  • Early History of Mankind"
  • Mental Constitution"
• Secord, Sections (Kit)

• Good Friday, NO CLASS

• The Roaring Girl
• Stephen Orgel, "The Subtexts of The Roaring Girl"
• Reflection

• Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Chapters 1-25)

• Presentation
• Short Essay Due

Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies

• Terry Goldie, "Introduction: Who is the Homotextual" (Kit)
• Judith Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire"
• Lee Edelman, "Homographesis"

• Pericles
• Deanne Williams, "Papa Don't Preach"
• Reflection

• Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Chapters 22-37)
• T.H. Milner, "On the Regulation of Floating Capital" (Kit)
• J.P. Hall, "Speculation" (Kit)

Post-Colonial Theory and Criticism

• Alston, "Water: Rivers and Forests of Survival"
• Edwards, "Aime Cesaire and the Syntax of Influence"
• Tinsley, "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa"
• Ramazani, "Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity"

• The Maid's Tale
• Michael Neill, "The Simetry, Which Gives a Poem Grace"
• Presentation

• Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Chapters 38-50)
• Bulwer-Lytton, Money

African American Theory and Criticism

• H.A. Baker Jr, "Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature"
• H.L. Gates Jr, "Talking Black"
• L. Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
• B. Christian, "The Race for Theory"
• b. hooks, "Postmodern Blackness"
• P. Gilroy, "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity"
• Hortense Spillers, "Papa's Baby, Mama's Maybe"
• Essay Due

• The Winter's Tale
• Diane Purkiss, "Fractious: Teenage Girls"
• Reflection

• Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Chapters 51-End)

Readers Reconsidered

• H.R. Jauss, "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory"
• W. Iser, "Interaction between Text and Reader"
• S. Fish, "Interpreting the Varorium"
• R. Barthes, The Death of the Author

• Milton, Comus
• Stephen Orgel, "The Case for Comus"
• Reflection
• Short Presentation of Final Paper

• Tennyson, In Memoriam

Gilles Deleuze

• Deleuze
  • "Literature and Life"
  • "What is a Minor Literature"
  • "On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature"
• Smith, Daniel, "A Life of Pure Immanence"
• Lingis, Alphonso, "The Society of Dismembered Body Parts"

Cultural Studies (Thursday May 21)

• Bataille, "The Sccursed Share"
• Mary Douglas, "Deciphering a Meal"
• Bourdieu, "Distinction"
• Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating"
• Wirzba, Shoemaker and Hoard
• Levinas
  • "Totality and Infinity"
  • "Otherwise than Being"

Postmodernism (Friday May 22)

• Habermas, "Modernity - An Incomplete Project"
• Lyotard, "Defining the Postmodern"
• Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
• Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"

• Draft: May 13th
• Final: June 8th

• June 4th

• Draft: May 21st
• Final: June 8th