383 SCHEDULE--Spring 1998
NOTE: Please complete readings by the date listed.
NOTE: A short response is due every week except the first and last weeks.
1/14 Introduction/Background:
- Overview of Current Theories
- movie:Vertigo(1957).
- Recommended Reading: "What is Criticism?" And "What is Theory?" (pp.
1-153 in CLC).
1/21 Historical Critique. Short Response #1 Due with copies.
- 433-43 in CLC: "Historical Critique"
- 472-506 in CLC: Greenblatt, "Invisible Bullets"
1/28 Marxism. Short Response #2 Due with copies.
- Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" [handout]
- 453-66 in CLC: Williams, "Base and Superstructure"
2/4 Deconstruction and Poststructuralism. Short Response #3 Due with copies.
- 297-306 in CLC: Intro.
- 307-19 in CLC: Culler, "Convention and Meaning"
- 320-40 in CLC: Derrida, "The Principle of Reason"
2/11 Deconstruction. Short Response #4 Due with copies.
- 354-70 in CLC: Belsey, "Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text"
- 371-80 in CLC: Intro ("Psychology and Psychoanalysis")
2/18 Psychoanalytic Criticism. Short Response #5 Due with copies.
Extended Response #1 Due.
- 381-86 Lacan, "The Mirror Stage";
- 421-32 in CLC: Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure"
- Zizek, "Looking Awry" [handout]
2/25 Psychoanalytic Criticism. Short Response #6 Due with copies.
- 400-420 in CLC: Felman, "Psychoanalysis and Education."
- 549-65 in CLC: Warner, "Homo-Narcissism"
- NOTE: 2/27 is the mid-term point
3/4 Feminism/Gender Studies. Short Response #7 Due with copies.
- Grosz, "Bodies and Knowledges" from Space, Time, and Perversion. [handout]
3/11 SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS
3/18 Feminism/Gender Studies. Short Response #8 Due with copies.
Extended Response #2 Due.
- Scott, "The Evidence of Experience" [handout]
- Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination"
3/25 Gender Studies/Queer Theory. Short Response #9 Due with copies.
- Boone, "Rubbing Aladdin's Lamp" [handout]
- Wiegman, "Queering the University" [handout]
- Ian. "How Do You Wear Your Body?: Bodybuilding and the Sublimity of Drag." [handout]
- NOTE: 3/27 is the last day to drop a class
4/1 Review of Current Theory Due.
4/8 Race Constructions. Short Response #10 Due with copies.
- Gates, "Writing "Race" and the Difference it Makes," Critical Inquiry
(1985)[handout]
- 123-31 in CLC: Christian, "The Race for Theory"
- Appiah, "Race" (in Lentricchia and McLaughlin, 1990) [handout]
4/15 Cultural Studies. Short Response #11 Due with copies.
- 597-626 in CLC: Intro; Hall, "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"
- 642-66 in CLC: Morris, "Banality in Cultural Studies";
- 667-680 in CLC: Davis & Schleifer, "Notes Toward a Definition of Cultural
Studies"
4/22 Technology and Criticism. Short Response #12 Due with copies.
- 566-96 in CLC: Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto";
- Hayles, "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers" October 66 (1993):
69-91 [handout].
4/29 Autobiography and Postmodernism. Extended Response #3 Due
[NOTE: I may change these last readings in anticipation of the Seminar in
Lit. Theory (June 4-7 at WVU). Julia Watson & Sidonie Smith are keynote
speakers]
- Watson, "Unspeakable Differences: The Politics of Gender in Lesbian and
Heterosexual Women's Autobiographies" in De/Colonizing the Subject (eds.
Smith and Watson). [handout]
- Smith, "Identity's Body" in Autobiography and Postmodernism (eds.
Gilmore et al) [handout]
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