1/11

Week 1: Formalisms

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Eichenbaum, “Introduction to the Formal Method” (skim)

Schlovsky, “Art as Technique”

Brooks, “The Formalist Critics”

Brooks, “The Language of Paradox”

Wimsatt, “The Structure of the 'Concrete Universal'” (skim)

1/18

Week 2: Structuralism (discussion initiation by Jenn and Lindsay)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Elizabeth Bishop, "The Map" (1946); Miscellaneous world map (20c);

Culler, “The Linguistic Foundation” (Summary by Jennifer Malm and Zahraa Yousef)

de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (Summary by Thayer Dortch and ___________ and Mark Trowbridge) 

Lévi-Strauss, “Anthropology and Myth” (optional; online)

Jakobson, "Two Aspects of Language" (optional)

Barthes, Mythologies (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and ________________) 

Paris Match Cover

Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge (Summary by Lindsay Murphy and Cristal Gonzalez ) 

Chatman, “The Structure of Narrative Transmission” (skim)

1/25

Week 3: Reader Response (Discussion by Thayer and Konstantin)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Austin, “How to Do Things with Words” (Summary by Thayer Dortch and Jennifer Malm) 

Fish, “Interpretive Communities” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and Zahraa Yousef)

and Cristal Gonzalez

Fish, “Not So Much a Teaching as an Entangling” (Summary by Lindsay Murphy  and ___________)

Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

Bourdieu, Distinction (skim) [images]

2/1

Week 4: Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism (Discussion by Zahraa and Cristal)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Nietzsche, “Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense” (Summary by __________  and Jennifer Malm)

Bataille, Heterology (Summary by _________  and Cristal Gonzalez ) 

Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (Summary by Lindsay Murphy  and  Thayer Dortch) 

Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and Zahraa Yousef)

"Historian Accused of Altering Lincoln Document at National Archives"

2/8

Week 5: Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism (Discussion by Jenn and Lindsay)

Heidegger, “Identity and Difference” (Cristal Gonzalez and Thayer Dortch)

Derrida, “Différance” (Summary by Jennifer Malm  ; art history analogy by Mark Trowbridge) 

 Derrida, “Of Grammatology” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and ________)

Derrida on Deconstruction; on Writing

Rousseau's language on the supplement [supplemental reading... sorry for the pun!]

Derrida, “Plato's Pharmacy” (online) (Summary by _____________)

Johnson, Writing (Summary by Lindsay Murphy)  

Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (Summary by Zahraa Yousef) 

"Desire Was Everywhere"  (London Review of Books on Deleuze and Guattari) [supplemental reading... hee hee!] 

2/15

Week 6: Psychoanalysis (Discussion by Thayer and Cristal)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (skim)

Freud, “The Uncanny” (Summary by Jennifer Malm and Thayer Dortch)

Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and Zahraa Yousef and Cristal Gonzalez )

Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” (Summary by  and Cristal Gonzalez )

Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud” (Summary by Lindsay Murphy and ___________)

2/22

Week 7: Psychoanalysis, Catch-up, Midterm Overview

Bring in one quote from each of the texts you've summarized thus far that encapsulates the theorist's ideas most clearly, and come prepared to share your thoughts. Post your quote here!

3/1

Week 8: Historicisms, Political Criticism (Discussion by Konstantin and Zahraa)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Williams, The Country and the City (Summary by Jennifer Malm)

Thompson, “Witness against the Beast” (Summary by Cristal Gonzalez )

Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Summary by Konstantin Gulish) 

Montrose, “Professing the Renaissance” (Summary by Thayer Dortch)

Armstrong, “Some Call it Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity” (Summary by Lindsay Murphy )

Bakhtin, Discourse in the Novel (Summary by Zahraa Yousef) 

Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (Summary by _____________) 

** Take-Home Midterm

3/8

Spring Break – no class. Work on your proposal.

3/15

Week 9: Political Criticism: Marxism, Cultural Materialism

** Proposal Due
** Midterm Due

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Marx, Grundrisse (Summary by______) 

For clarity, you may find it helpful to read the excerpt from The German Ideology, but this is optional, as I added it late! If you would prefer to summarize this, instead of another Marx, you will find it helpful (Summary by Cristal Gonzalez  ) 

Marx, “Wage Labor and Capital” (Summary by Zahraa Yousef )

Marx, Capital (Summary by ___________) 

Gramsci, “Hegemony” (Summary by Jennifer Malm)

Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish)

Macherey, “Theory of Literary Production” (Summary by ___________) 

 Fetterley, “On the Politics of Literature”  (Introduction to The Resisting Reader, through xxvi) [note: this is available on Google Books] (Summary by Lindsay Murphy)

3/22

Week 10: Feminism (Discussion by Lindsay and Jenn) 

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex” (Summary by Jennifer Malm)

Irigaray, “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish)

Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (Summary by Cristal Gonzalez )

Spivak, “Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” (Summary by ___________)

Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (online) (Summary by Lindsay Murphy)

Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (Summary by Zahraa Yousef)

3/29

Week 11: Gender Studies
Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Foucault, The History of Sexuality (Summary by Zahraa Yousef and Cristal Gonzalez )

Sedgwick, Between Men (online) (Summary by _____________ and ___________)

Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and ___________)

Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Summary by Jennifer Malm and ___________)

Moon, “A Small Boy and Others” (Summary by Lindsay Murphy and ___________)

Mapplethorpe S&M bikers in the parlour, male nude, Schwartzenegger

Velázquez' The Toilet of Venus, Michaelangelo's David, classical discus thrower

4/3

** Annotated Bibliography Due Electronically (7-12 well-chosen sources!)

4/5

Week 12: Critical Race Theory (Cristal)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Fishkin, “Interrogating Whiteness” (Summary by _____________ and ___________)

Gates, “The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique on the Sign and the Signifying Monkey” (Summary by Lindsay Murphy and ___________)

Morrison, “Playing in the Dark” (Summary by Konstantin Gulish and ___________)

Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera (Summary by Cristal Gonzalez and Jennifer Malm)

Cover of Mumbo Jumbo; Ashgate Press 19th-century academic titles catalog

4/12

Week 13: Colonial, Post-Colonial, Transnational Studies (Zahraa and Konstantin)

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Loomba, "Situating Colonial and Postcolonial Studies" (skim; optional--a good overview)

Said, “Austen and Empire” (Summary by Jennifer Malm and Cristal Gonzalez )

Ngugi, “Decolonizing the Mind” (Summary by Lindsay Murphy and Konstantin Gulish and Zahraa Yousef)

Braithwaite, “English in the Caribbean” (skim; optional--good counter to Ngugi)

Bhabha, "Signs Taken for Wonders" (Summary by ___________and ___________)

4/19

Week 14: Cultural Studies

• Full-class workshop! Bring in drafts for everyone, and email me if you would like to address a specific issue (email your draft to me beforehand)
• Bring in one quote from each of the texts you've summarized thus far that encapsulates the theorist's ideas most clearly, and come prepared to share your thoughts. Post your quote here!

Introduction: Rivkin & Ryan

Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Summary by ________  and ___________)

Horkheimer and Adorno, “The Culture Industry as Mass Deception” (Summary by _____________ and ___________)

de Certeau, “The Practice of Everyday Life” (optional/skim)

Fiske, “Culture, Ideology, Interpellation” (optional/skim)

4/27

Final Exam (Note that this is on a Wednesday--we'll meet in our regular room, and the exam will be hand-written, hence a bit briefer. Bring treats, if you like!)