NOTE: Readings IN BLUE
must be annotated.

       
       
       
     

1/9
INTRODUCTIONS
1/11
Formalisms Intro (3-7)
Shklovsky, Art as Technique (8-14)
Brooks, The Formalist Critics (15-20)


1/16
Beardsley & Wimsatt, Int. Fallacy (29-41)
O'Sullivan, Broken on Purpose (42-54)

1/18
Structuralism Intro (131-133)
Culler, Linguistic Foundation (134-136)
Saussure, General Linguistics (137-177)

1/23
Barthes, Mythologies (196-204)
Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel (205-216)
1/25
Newman, From Beats to Arcs (248-264)

1/30
Austin, How to Do Things with Words (HO)
Fish, How to Recognize a Poem (HO)
2/1
Bourdieu, Distinction (331-347)

2/6
Derrida, Différance (474-495)
Barthes, From Work to Text (522-527)
2/8
Barthes, Death of the Author (518-521)
Baudrillard, Simulacra (HO)

2/13
NO CLASS
MARDI GRAS

2/15
Psychoanalysis Intro (567-574)
Freud, Interp of Dreams (575-591)
Freud, The Uncanny (592-614)


2/20
Lacan, The Mirror Stage (618-623)
Fanon, Negro and Psychopathology (HO)
2/22
Marxism Introduction (711-716)
Marx - The German Ideology (730-735)

FINAL PROJECT PART 1 ASSIGNED

2/27
Althusser, Ideo and ISAs (768-777)
Hork + Adorno, Cult Ind (HO)
3/1
Benjamin, Mechanical Reproduction (HO)
Hebdige, Subculture (HO)

3/6
Rubin, Traffic in Women (901-924)
Cixous, Laugh of the Medusa (940-954)


FINAL PROJECT PART 1 DUE
3/8
Butler, Imitation and Gender Insub (955-962)


FINAL PROJECT PART 2 ASSIGNED

3/13
Said, Orientalism (1107-1136)
Achebe, An Image of Africa (1137-1146)

3/15
LIBRARY DAY

3/20
Morrison, Playing in the Dark (1163-1173)
Kincaid, A Small Place (1174-1179)


FINAL PROJECT PART 2 DUE
3/22
Hall, Cult Identity and Diaspora (1191-1201)

3/27
NO CLASS
SPRING BREAK

3/29
NO CLASS
SPRING BREAK


4/3
Ngugi, Decolonizing the Mind (HO)
4/5
Brathwaite, English in the Caribbean (HO)

4/10
Hart, Embodied Literature (1265-1283)

4/12
Keane, Narrative Empathy (1284-1311)


4/17
Ahmed, Affective Economies (1312-1328)
4/19
Carroll, Human Nature (1329-1359)

4/24
Hogan, Literary Brains (1360-1371)
Underwood, Digital Humanities (1373-1379)
4/26
Moretti, Planet Hollywood (1380-1388)

5/1
FINAL EXAM SLOT
1pm to 3pm

5/3