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Fall 2005

Reading selections are coded as follows: C refers to Criticism: Major Statements. Other readings will be available through my public folder (I hope).

8/24 Introduction to the Course

8/31 Plato, The Republic: Book X, from the Ion
        Aristotle, The Poetics

Sep.     7         Longinus, “On the Sublime,”
                       Wordsworth, preface to Lyrical Ballads
                       Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry”
                       Nietszche, from The Birth of Tragedy

            14        Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”

            21        Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”

            28        Frye, “The Archetypes of Literature”
                        Saussure, “Nature of the Linguistic Sign,” "Linguistic Value"
                        Eco, “The Deconstruction of the Linguistic Sign”
                      

Oct.     5          Bakhtin, “Heteroglossia in the Novel”

12        Foucault, “What is an Author?” 
                        Barthes, “From Work to Text”
                                      "The Death of the Author"

19        Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,”
                      

26        Lacan, "The Mirror Stage,"  “Of Structure as an Inmixing,” “Subversion of the Subject”
                        Coats, "Looking Glasses and Neverlands"

Nov.    2           Butler, introduction to Bodies That Matter and The Psychic Life of Power, (The relevant articles are listed as Introduction-Bodies, Notes-Bodies, and Introduction-Butler, and Notes-Butler in my public folder.)
                        Foucault, from The History of Sexuality, Docile Bodies, Panopticism

            9         Zizek, "Passionate (Dis)Attachments, or, Judith Butler as a Reader of Freud"

            16        No Class

23        No Class

30        Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision”
                        Showalter, “Toward a Feminist Poetics”
                        Irigaray, “The Power of Discourse”

Dec.     7          Gates, “The Trope of the Talking Book”
                        Bhabha, “The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: The Question of Agency"
                        Lyotard,  excerpts from The Postmodern Condition