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The textbook for this course will be...


Literary Theory: An Anthology (2/e)
edited by JULIE RIVKIN & MICHAEL RYAN


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I would recommend acquiring...

MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers
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NOTE: Readings IN BLUE must be annotated.
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8/25
Formalisms Intro (3-6)
Eichenbaum, The Formal Method (7-14)
Shklovsky, Art as Technique (15-21)
Brooks, The Formalist Critics (22-27)
Wimsatt, Structure of the Concrete Universal (40-49)
 
8/30

Structuralism / Linguistics Intro (53-55)
Culler, The Linguistic Foundation (56-58)

Saussure, Course on General Linguistics (59-71)
Propp, Morphology of the Folk-tale (72-75)
   
9/1
Jakobson, The Two Aspects of Language (76-80)
Barthes, Mythologies (81-89)
Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge (90-96)
   
9/6
Rhetoric / Reader Response Intro (127-130)
Austin, How To Do Things with Words (162-176)
Fish, Interp Comm (217-221); How to Recognize (HO)
   
9/8
Frow, Text and System (222-236)
Bourdieu, Distinction (237-253); Forms of Capital (HO)
   
9/13
Post-Structuralism / Deconst / Pomo Intro (257-261)
Nietzsche, Truth and Lying (262-265)
Derrida, Différance (278-299)

   
9/15
Derrida, Of Grammatology (300-331)
Derrida, Semiology and Grammatology (332-339)
   
9/20
Barthes, The Death of the Author (HO)
Johnson, Writing (340-347)
Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (348-354)
   
9/22
Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (355-364)
Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations (365-377)
   
9/27
Psychoanalysis and Psychology Intro (389-396)
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (397-414)
Freud, The Uncanny (418-430)
 
9/29 Freud, Group Psychology (438-440)
Lacan, The Mirror Stage (441-446)
 
10/6
Lacan, The Insistence of the Letter (447-461)
Fanon, The Negro and Psychopathology (462-469)
 
10/11
Historicisms Intro (505-507)
Foucault, Discipline and Punishment (549-566)
 
10/13

Montrose, Professing the Renaissance (584-591)
Greenblatt, Shakespeare and the Exorcists (592-620)
 


10/18 Political Criticism / Marxism Intro (643-646)
Hegel, Dialectics (647-649)
Marx, Grundrisse (650-652); Ger. Ideology (653-658) Marx, Wage Labor & Capital (659-664)
Marx, Capital (665-672)
Gramsci, Hegemony (673)
 
10/20 Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel (674-685)
Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World (686-692)
Althusser, Ideology and ISAs (693-702)
 
10/25 Feminism Intro (765-769)
Rubin, The Traffic in Women (770-794)
Irigaray, Subordination of the Feminine (795-798)
 
10/27 Irigaray, Women on the Market (799-811)
Gilbert and Gubar, Madwoman in the Attic (812-825)
 
11/1 Gender Studies Intro (885-888)
Rubin, Sexual Transformations (889-891)
Foucault, The History of Sexuality (892-899)
 
11/3 Butler, Performative Acts and Gender (900-911)
Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (912-921)
 
11/8
Ethnic Studies / Critical Race Theory Intro (959-963)
Haney-López, Social Construction of Race (964-974)
Gates, Signifying Monkey (987-1004)
 
11/10
Morrison, Playing in the Dark (1005-1016)
Anzaldua, Borderlands / La Frontera (1017-1030)
 
11/15
Colonial / Post-Colonial Intro (1071-1074)
Loomba, Colonial and PoCo Studies (1100-1111)
Said, Jane Austen and Empire (1112-1125)
 
11/17
Ngugi, Decolonising the Mind (1126-1150)
Brathwaite, English in the Caribbean (1151-1166)
 
11/22
McClintock, The Angel of Progress (1185-1196)
Kincaid, A Small Place (1224-1229)
 
11/29 Cultural Studies Intro (1233-1234)
Benjamin, Mechanical Reproduction (1235-1241)
Horkheimer and Adorno, Culture Industry (1242-1246)
 
12/1
Hebdige, Subculture (1258-1267)
Clune, You Can't See Me (HO)
 
12/6
Fiske, Culture, Ideology, Interpellation (1268-1273)
Fiske, Television Culture (1274-1284)