ENG 602: Literary Theory & Critical Practice
Tentative Schedule
Semester Overview
WEEK ONE: Jan 20
Introductions
WEEK TWO: Jan 27
* Terry Eagleton “The Subject of Literature”
* Ron Strickland, “Confrontational Pedagogy”
* Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and Donald Morton, "Theory Pedagogy Politics: The Crisis of 'The Subject' in the Humanities"
WEEK THREE: Feb 3
* Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes Toward an Investigation" (Online &/or on Blackboard)
*Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism
WEEK FOUR: Feb 10
**!!IMPORTANT: CLASS WILL BEGIN AT 5:00PM TONIGHT!!**
* Roland Barthes, Mythologies
* Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
WEEK FIVE: Feb 17
* Roland Barthes excerpts from S/Z
* Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author"
* Linda Hutcheon, "Preface" & "Theorizing the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics" from A Poetics of Postmodernism: History Theory Fiction
WEEK SIX: Feb 24
* Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
* Guy Debord, "All the King’s Men"
* Mustapha Khayati, "On the Poverty of Student Life: A Consideration of Its Economic, Political, Sexual, Psychological and Notably Intellectual Aspects and of a Few Ways to Cure it"
WEEK SEVEN: Mar 3
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (pages 1-78)
WEEK EIGHT: Mar 10
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (pages 79-164)
WEEK NINE: Mar 17
No Class FURLOUGH DAY
WEEK TEN: Mar 24
!!Midterm Exam Due!!
* Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, "Image and Code: Scope and Limits of Conventionalism in Pictorial Representation"
W.J.T. Mitchell, Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (pages 1-94)
WEEK ELEVEN: Mar 31 : Cesar Chavez Day: No Class!
Spring Break!
WEEK TWELVE: Apr 7
* Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
* John Berger, from Ways of Seeing Chapter One
W.J.T. Mitchell, Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (pages 95-208)
WEEK THIRTEEN: Apr 14
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (pages 1-73)
WEEK FOURTEEN: Apr 21
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (pages vii-44)
WEEK FIFTEEN: Apr 28
* Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"
* Samuel R. Delany, "Reading at Work, and Other Activities Frowned on by Authority: A Reading of Donna Haraway's 'Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century'"
WEEK SIXTEEN: May 5
* Barbara Christian, "The Race For Theory"
* Ann DuCille Chapter 3 from Skin Trade
* Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. "'a joint rolled in toilet paper': Funkadelic's Funky Soul"
WEEK SEVENTEEN: May 12
Terry Eagleton, After Theory
WEEK EIGHTEEN: Final Exam Week