Syllabus

Week 1 (September 3): Introduction. What do you know about theory?
Group discussion

Week 2 (September 10): Formalisms and Structuralism (Rivkin and Ryan, Parts One & Two)
Introduction to Formalisms (3-6)
Eichenbaum (7-14)
Viktor Shklovsky (15-21)
Introduction to Structuralism (53-55)
Culler (56-58)
Saussure (59-71)
Jakobson (76-80)
Barthes (81-89)
Foucault (90-96)

Week 3 (September 17): Rhetoric, Phenomenology, Reader Response (Part Three)
Introduction (127-130)
Austin (162-176)
Fish (217-221)
Bourdieu (237-253)
Barthes “The Death of the Author” (PDF)
Foucault “What is an Author” (PDF)

Week 4 (September 24): Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism (Part Four)
Introduction (257-261)
Derrida (278-339)
Johnson (340-347)
Lyotard (355-364)
Baudrillard (365-377)

Week 5 (October 1): Psychoanalysis (Part Five)
Introduction (389-396)
Freud (397-440)
Lacan (441-461)
Lacan “Seminar on the ‘Purloined Letter’” (PDF)
Deleuze and Guattari (378-386)

Week 6 (October 8): (October 24): Political Criticism (Part Seven)
Introduction (643-646)
Hegel (647-649)
Marx (650-672)
Gramsci (673)
Bakhtin (674-685)
Althusser (693-702)
Žižek (712-724)

Week 7 (October 15): Feminism (Part Eight)
Introduction (765-769)
Beauvoir “Author’s Introduction” from The Second Sex (PDF) (optional)
Cixous (348-354)
Rubin (770-794)
Irigaray (795-811)
Gilbert and Gubar (812-825)
Lorde (854-860)
Heng (861-881)

Week 8 (October 22): Gender Studies (Part Nine)
Introduction to Gender Studies (885-888)
Foucault (892-899)
Butler (900-911)
Sedgwick (912-921)
Halberstam (935-956)

FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 26

Week 9 (October 29): Film Studies (From Braudy and Cohen, PDF)
Bazin (159-166)
Baudry (171-188) (optional)
Sarris (451-454)
Williams (602-616)
Metz (694-710)
Mulvey (711-722)
Gunning (736-750) (optional)
Stam and Spence (751-766)
Friedberg (802-813)

Week 10 (November 5): Ethnic Literary and Critical Race Theory, etc. (Part Ten)
Introduction (959-963)
Fanon (462-469)
López (964-974)
Fishkin (975-986)
Gates (987-1004)
Morrison (1005-1016)
Anzaldúa (1017-1030)
Lowe (1031-1050)

Week 11 (November 12): (Post-) Colonial, and Transnational Studies (Part Eleven)
Introduction (1071-1074)
Loomba (1100-1111)
Said (1112-1125)
Thiong’o (1126-1150)
Bhabha (1167-1184)
McClintock (1185-1196)
Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (PDF)

Week 12 (November 19): Cultural Studies (Part Twelve)
Introduction (1233-1234)
Benjamin (1235-1241)
Horkheimer and Adorno (1242-1246)
Williams (508-532)
Foucault (549-566)
De Certeau (1247-1257)
Fiske (1268-1284)

Week 13 (November 26): Conclusions/Review

SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 9

FINAL EXAM: TUESDAY DECEMBER 3