Syllabus

Tues, 4-6pm, BuTo 826

Before 1st class: Set up blog (UBC or elsewhere) and comment on Maupassant’s text: what do you find most interesting in this text? (3 paragraphs are usually sufficient for a blog entry.)

week 1 (Sep 4): Maupassant, “Toine”

week 2 (Sep 11): Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”; Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel”

week 3 (Sep 18): Saussure and Barthes.

week 4 (Sep 25): Marx and Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams”

week 5 (Oct 2): Althusser and Lacan, “Instance of the Letter.”

week 6 (Oct 9): Kafka, “The Penal Colony”

week 7 (Oct 16): Austin, Derrida, and Searle

week 8 (Oct 23): Benjamin and Williams

week 9 (Oct 30): hooks and Butler

[Turn in: Theory in progress]

week 10 (Nov 6): Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

week 11 (Nov 13): Foucault and Said

week 12 (Nov 20): Guha and Spivak

week 13 (Nov 27): Borges, “The South”

Dec 14: final paper due