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Session Focus |
Reading Assignment |
Other Assignment |
Assignment and Exam Dates |
Week 1
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Introduction to the course. Preliminary questions: New Criticism: reading, critical reading, theory.
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Parker, Chap. 2
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Week 2
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Structuralism; Saussure and Semiotics
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Parker, Chap. 3, pp.44-65
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Week 3
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Propp, Jakobsen, Barthes
Structuralist reading of Little Red Riding Hood |
Parker, Chap. 3, pp.65-83 |
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Week 4
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Psychoanalysis, Freud
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Parker, Chap 5, pp.112-129
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Bruno Bettleheim, "The Uses of Enchantment" |
In class excercise: Morphological reading of Little Red Riding Hood
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Week 5
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Psychoanalysis, Lacan
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Parker, Chap. 5, pp.130-146
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Week 6
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Marxism
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Parker, Chap. 8, pp.221-240 |
Marx, Wage, Labour and Capital
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In class excercise: Psychoanalytic Terminology
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Week 7
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Variations in Marxist Criticism, Gramsci, Althusser, Benjamin |
Parker, Chap 8, pp. 241-284
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Gramsci, Hegemony, Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology
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Week 8
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Feminism: Wollestonecraft, Woolf
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Parker, Chap. 6, pp. 148-165 |
Simone de Beauvoir, Second Sex, "Introduction."
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In class excercise: Marxist terminology
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Week 9
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Feminism: Cixous, Irigaray, Friedan
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Parker, Chap. 6, pp.165-183 |
Luce Irigaray, The Power of Discourse in the Subordination of the Feminine
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1st Home Paper
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Week 10
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Queer and Gender Studies: Foucault, Butler
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Parker, Chap. 7, pp.185-217 |
Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
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IN class exercise: Feminist Terminology
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Week 11
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New Historicism and Cultural Studies: Foucault, Greenblatt, Baudrillard
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Parker, Chap. 9, pp. 259-280
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Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction
Fiske, Television Culture |
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Week 12
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Colonial and Postcolonial studies: Said, Bhaba, Fanon
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Parker, Chap. 10, pp. 286-311
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Homi K. Bhaba, Signs taken for Wonders
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2nd Home Paper
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Week 13
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Race and Ethnicity studies
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Parker, Chap. 10, pp. 311-327
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Tony Morrison, Playing in the Dark
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Week 14
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Revision
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