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GS/EN 6988 Girlhood |
GS/EN 6425 Vic Lit |
GS/EN 6992 Lit Crit
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| Week of March 1st |
Overview
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Introduction
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Discourse Analysis and Foucault
- F. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense (N.A. 874-884)
- M. Foucault, Sections. (N.A. 1622-70)
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| Week of March 8th |
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Camile Wells Slights, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Courtsey Book Tradition"
- Reflection
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Discourse Analysis and Foucault cont.
- M. Foucault,
- "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"
- "What is Critique"
- "The Subject and Power"
- I Kant, "What is Enlightenment"
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| Week of March 15th |
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Gender Studies
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| Week of March 22nd |
- Richard II
- Helen Ostovich, "Here in this Garden"
- Reflection
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Class Cancelled
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| Week of March 29th |
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Feminisms
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| Week of April 5th |
Class Cancelled
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- Chambers, Vestiges
- "The Bodies of Space"
- "General Considerations"
- Hypothesis of the Development"
- Macleay System of Animated Nature"
- Early History of Mankind"
- Mental Constitution"
- Secord, Sections (Kit)
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| Week of April 12th |
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- Presentation
- Short Essay Due
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Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies
- Terry Goldie, "Introduction: Who is the Homotextual" (Kit)
- Judith Butler, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire"
- Lee Edelman, "Homographesis"
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| Week of April 19th |
- Pericles
- Deanne Williams, "Papa Don't Preach"
- Reflection
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- Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Chapters 22-37)
- T.H. Milner, "On the Regulation of Floating Capital" (Kit)
- J.P. Hall, "Speculation" (Kit)
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Post-Colonial Theory and Criticism
- Alston, "Water: Rivers and Forests of Survival"
- Edwards, "Aime Cesaire and the Syntax of Influence"
- Tinsley, "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa"
- Ramazani, "Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity"
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| Week of April 26th |
- The Maid's Tale
- Michael Neill, "The Simetry, Which Gives a Poem Grace"
- Presentation
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African American Theory and Criticism
- H.A. Baker Jr, "Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature"
- H.L. Gates Jr, "Talking Black"
- L. Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
- B. Christian, "The Race for Theory"
- b. hooks, "Postmodern Blackness"
- P. Gilroy, "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity"
- Hortense Spillers, "Papa's Baby, Mama's Maybe"
- Essay Due
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| Week of May 3rd |
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Readers Reconsidered
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| Week of May 10th |
- Milton, Comus
- Stephen Orgel, "The Case for Comus"
- Reflection
- Short Presentation of Final Paper
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Gilles Deleuze
- Deleuze
- "Literature and Life"
- "What is a Minor Literature"
- "On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature"
- Smith, Daniel, "A Life of Pure Immanence"
- Lingis, Alphonso, "The Society of Dismembered Body Parts"
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| Week of May 17th
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Cultural Studies (Thursday May 21)
- Bataille, "The Sccursed Share"
- Mary Douglas, "Deciphering a Meal"
- Bourdieu, "Distinction"
- Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating"
- Wirzba, Shoemaker and Hoard
- Levinas
- "Totality and Infinity"
- "Otherwise than Being"
Postmodernism (Friday May 22)
- Habermas, "Modernity - An Incomplete Project"
- Lyotard, "Defining the Postmodern"
- Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
- Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
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| Essays Due
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- Draft: May 13th
- Final: June 8th
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- Draft: May 21st
- Final: June 8th
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