| Date |
Reading |
| 1/19 |
Introduction; Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" |
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Tradition, the Canon, and Defamiliarizing the Canon |
| 1/24 |
Brooks,"The Formalist Critics," 1366–71; from Texts and Contexts, 3–57 |
| 1/26 |
Plato, Republic, Book VII, 64–67; Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1092–98 |
| 1/31 |
Kolodny, "Dancing Through the Minefield," 2143–65; Ngugi, Liyong, and Owuor-Anyumba, "On the Abolition of the English Department," 2089–97 |
| 2/2 |
Ohmann, "The Shaping of a Canon," 1877–94; draft of essay #1 due |
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Theory and Practice |
| 2/7 |
Essay #1 due; Freud, 919–23; Texts and Contexts, 183–208; Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper |
| 2/9 |
Freud, from "The 'Uncanny,'" 929–39 |
| 2/14 |
Lacan, "The Mirror Stage," 1278–90; Zizek, from Looking Awry; Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter |
| 2/16 |
Sedgwick, from Between Men, 2432–38; Texts and Contexts, 61–66 and 211–39 |
| 2/21–25 |
February Break |
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| 2/28 |
Hall, from Queer Theories, 1–17, 51–85, 115–29 |
| 3/2 |
Walker, The Color Purple |
| 3/7 |
Gates, "Talking Black," 2421–32; Hurston, "Characteristics of Negro Expression," 1144–58 |
| 3/9 |
Baker, from Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, 2223–40; Marvin, "Preaching the Blues" |
| 3/14 |
Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," 2035–56; Abbandonato, "Rewriting the Heroine's Story" |
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Cultural and Literary Studies |
| 3/16 |
Horkheimer and Adornon, from Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1220–27; Hebdidge, "From Culture to Hegemony," 2445–57 |
| 3/21 |
Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 1476–79, 1502–5, 1507–8; Bordo, from Unbearable Weight, 2360–76 |
| 3/23 |
Wittig, "One is Not Born a Woman," 2012–21; Hall, from Queer Theories, 21–50, 148–71 |
| 3/28 |
Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," 2179–92 |
| 3/30 |
Workshop on essay #2; Benshoff, from Monsters in the Closet |
| 4/4 |
Essay #2 due; Diawara, "Black Spectatorship"; clips from The Birth of a Nation |
| 4/6 |
Class does not meet; special screening of The Color Purple, time and place TBA |
| 4/11 |
Bobo, from Black Women as Cultural Readers |
| 4/13 |
Class does not meet: UMF Symposium Day |
| 4/18–4/26 |
April Break |
| 4/25 |
Davis, from Enforcing Normalcy, 2398–421; Texts and Contexts, 97–112 |
| 4/27 |
Deleuze and Guattare, from A Thousand Plateaus, 1593–97, 1601–9; Lyotard, "Defining the Postmodern," 1609–15 |
| 5/2 |
TBA |
| 5/4 |
Draft due for workshop on essay #3 |
| 5/9–5/13 |
Final Exam Week: Essay #3 Due Tuesday, May 10 |
