Silabus Critical Theory

August

29

Introduction: Syllabus, Theory, Methodology, Method, Approach,

Perspective, and other vague concepts; Theory about Literature, Theory about Literary
Theory, Theory in Literary Studies
September

LITERATURE and THEORY Classical Ideas about Literature, excerpts

of Platos Ion and Republic; Horaces The Art of Poetry; Paul de Mans Resistance
to Theory; and Northrop Fryes The Function of Criticism in Our Present Time;
Scholes, The English Apparatus

September

12

REPRESENTATION Platos Ion, Mitchells Representation,

excerpts from Marxs Eighteenth Brumaire, Gilbert and Gubars The Madwoman in
the Attic, Edward Said, Jane Austen and the Empire, Spivaks Feminism and Critical
Theory, Freuds Interpretation of Dreams
September

19

STRUCTURE Rowes Structure, Shklovskys Art as Technique,

Saussures selections from Course in General Linguistics, Derridas Structure, Sign and
Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences, Belseys Constructing the Subject:
Deconstructing the Text, Millers Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness, Deleuze and
Guattaris 1874: Three Novellas, or What Happened?
September

26

DESIRE and SELF Lacans The Mirror Stage as Formative of the

Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience and The Instance of

the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud, Mulveys Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema, excerpt from Deleuze and Guattaris Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia, Bhabhas On Mimicry and Men.
October

TEXT and TEXTUAL TECHNOLOGY Barthes From Work to Text

and The Death of the Author, Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction, Haraways A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and SocialistFeminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Hayless Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The
Importance of Media-Specific Analysis.

October

10

GENDER and SEXUALITY Cixouss Castration or Decapitation?

Kristevas Foreign Body, Mohantys Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and
Colonial Discourses, Warners Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality,
October

17

CLASS and ECONOMY Raymond Williamss Base and

Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory and The Country and the City; Marxs
Alienated Labor, Money as the Symbol of Alienation in the Capitalist Economy, and
Wage, Labor and Capital; Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redifining
Difference; Luce Irigiray, Women on the Market.
October

24

NATION and EMPIRE excerpts from Saids Orientalism and Culture

and Imperialism, Spivaks Can the Subaltern Speak? Parrys Reading Signs of the
Empire in Metropolitan Fiction.
October

31

WRITING and ORALITY Ongs Some Psychodynamics of Orality,

November

RACE

November

14

CULTURE and IDEOLOGY Arnolds Culture and Anarchy,

November

21

Paper consultations and unresolved issues

November

28

Paper consultations and unresolved issues

December

December

12

Paper consultations and unresolved issues

December

19

No

Paper consultations and unresolved issues

Class
December

Paper Due
23 to January 3 UAS