<p> English 720: Modern Literary Theory (20th Century)</p><p>Spring 2016 Jane Gallop, Instructor W 4:00PM - 6:40PM Office: Curtin 394 CRT 405 Office Hours: Weds, 2:30-3:30 Email: [email protected]</p><p>Texts: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies, Robert Dale Parker The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes (All available at People’s Books)</p><p>Online Readings: http://ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/login? url=http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/ereserve/gallop/ENGLISH720.html</p><p>Assignments: 3 oral presentations each of a different kind (10-minutes each): [1 on topic (“ism”) for week, 1 summary of argument in one of week’s readings, and 1 close reading of one of week’s readings]; 6 papers (5-pages) [on a text for previous week – 3 argument summaries, 3 close readings] </p><p>Grades: each paper and each presentation is worth 1/9 of semester grade.</p><p>P= Parker Anthology N= Norton Anthology Pdf= Online Course Reserve</p><p>1/27 Intro Class Introduction to Parker Anthology Discussion of all assignments in detail, esp “ism” presentations, argument summaries, close readings, presentations to undergrad class</p><p>2/3 New Criticism Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” N Eliot, “The Metaphysical Poets” N Ransom, “Criticism Inc.” N Brooks, “The Language of Paradox” P</p><p>2/10 New Criticism Brooks, “The Formalist Critics” N Brooks, “The Heresy of Paraphrase” N Wimsatt, “The Concrete Universal” P Wimsatt & Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy” N W& B, “The Affective Fallacy” N 2/17 Marxism Marx, from The Communist Manifesto N Marx, from the German Ideology N Marx, from Grundrisse N Marx, preface to Critique of Political Economy P Marx, “Fetishism of Commodities” P Benjamin, “The Author as Producer” pdf Lukacs, “Realism in the Balance” pdf Horkheimer and Adorno, “The Culture Industry” P</p><p>2/24 Marxism Adorno, “Lyric Poetry and Society” pdf [Telos, 1974] Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” P Williams from Marxism and Literature pdf Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” P Jameson, from The Political Unconscious N Eagleton, from “The Rise of English” N</p><p>3/2 No class</p><p>3/9 Structuralism Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics P Shklovsky, “Art as Technique” P Propp, Morphology of the Folktale P Levi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth” P Jakobson, “The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles” P Todorov, “Structural Analysis of Narrative” N </p><p>3/16 Spring Break – no class</p><p>3/23 Psychoanalysis Freud from The Interpretation of Dreams N Freud, “Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis” Pdf Freud, “The Handling of Dream Interpretation in Psychoanalysis” Pdf Freud, “Psycho-analysis” P Lacan, “Seminar on the Purloined Letter” P Lacan, “The Agency of the Letter” N</p><p>3/30 Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author” N S/Z, chs i-ix (1970) Pdf “From Work to Text” P/N The Pleasure of the Text Book</p><p>4/6 Jacques Derrida From Of Grammatology [pp. 27-73 (Pt 1,ch 2) & 101-140 (pt. 2, ch1) pdf From “Plato’s Pharmacy” N “White Mythology” Pdf “Racism’s Last Word” Pdf “Specters of Marx” Pdf</p><p>4/13 Michel Foucault “What is an Author?” N “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” Pdf Discipline and Punish, The Carceral N “Panopticism” P From History of Sexuality, vol. 1 N</p><p>4/20 Feminism Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, chs 3 & 4 Pdf Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” Pdf Helene Cixous, “Coming to Writing” Pdf Judith Fetterley, “Introduction: On the Politics of Literature” Pdf Jane Tompkins, “Sentimental Power” Pdf Annette Kolodny, “A Map for Rereading” Pdf Nancy Armstrong, “Some Call it Fiction” Pdf</p><p>4/27 Queer Theory Eve Sedgwick, “Introduction: Axiomatic” from Epistemology of the Closet Pdf Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” Pdf Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” Pdf Lee Edelman, “The Future is Kid Stuff” Pdf</p><p>5/4 Postcolonial Theory Frantz Fanon, Selections from The Wretched of the Earth N Homi Bhabha, “On Mimicry and Man” P Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” P Edward Said, “Narrative and Social Space” P Said, intro to Orientalism N</p><p>5/11 Final Class </p>