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    COURSE HOME Course Meeting Times

    Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session


    SYLLABUS
    Course Overview

    READINGS This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth
    century, paying special attention to poststructuralist theories and their legacy. The course is organized around specific theoretical paradigms. In
    general, we will: (1) work through the selected readings in order to see how they construe what literary interpretation is; (2) locate the limits of each
    particular approach; and (3) trace the emergence of subsequent theoretical paradigms as responses to what came before. The literary texts and
    ASSIGNMENTS films accompanying the theoretical material will serve as concrete cases that allow us to see theory in action. For the most part, each week will pair
    a text or film with a particular interpretative approach, using the former to explore the latter. Rather than attempting a definitive or full analysis of the
    literary or filmic work, we will exploit it (unashamedly—and indeed sometimes reductively) to understand better the theoretical reading it
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    MATERIALS
    Prerequisites

    This course has no prerequisites.

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    Texts
    Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781500376765.

    Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Tribeca Books, 2013. ISBN: 9781936594191. [Preview with Google Books]

    Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN: 9781506138855.
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    Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698.

    Assignments
    Response Paper: A brief response to modes of reading covered in the first three weeks (about 3 pages).
    Oral Presentations: 15–20 minute presentation of assigned readings and shorter presentations / questions throughout term.
    Take-Home Midterm: Short essays responding to questions handed out (8–10 pages).
    Final Paper: Longer essay either theoretically-oriented or a careful reading of a text of your choice, drawing on what you have read over the term
    (6–8 pages).

    Grading

    The class will require regular participation and attendance. Your engagement with the material will determine how well the course works.

    ACTIVITIES PERCENTAGES

    Participation and Attendance 10%

    Oral Presentations 15%

    Response Paper 15%

    Take-Home Midterm 30%

    Final Essay 30%

    Calendar

    SES # TOPICS KEY DATES

    1 Introduction

    New Criticism and American Reader Response


    2
    Criticism

    3 Structuralism

    4 Structuralism (cont.) Response Paper due 3 days after Ses 4

    5 Deconstruction

    6 Deconstruction (cont.)

    7 Psychoanalysis: Freud

    8 Psychoanalysis and Lacan

    Take-Home Midterm due 10 days after


    9 Psychoanalysis and Lacan (cont.)
    Ses 9

    10 Michel Foucault

    11 Michel Foucault (cont.)

    12 Continuation of earlier material

    13 Latour and Kittler Final Essay due 3 days after Ses 13

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