文學研究概論

The course is meant to help students cope with the primary texts in literary criticism and theory, and to incur discussions on a few key issues concerning the relational significance between language, the subject, and the world.

1. Introduction 2. Roman Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetic. pp. 1258-1268; Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics. pp. 960-976 3. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Fetishism. pp. 919-928, 952-955 4. Holiday 5. Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny. pp. 929-951; E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Sandman. (Handouts) 6. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Various Selections. pp. 764-787 7. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. pp. 1166-1185 8. Jacques Lacan, The Mirror Stage; The Significance of the Phallus. pp. 1285-1289, 1302-1310 9. Mid-term 10. Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus. pp. 1483-1508 11. Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language. pp. 2169-2179 12. Michel Foucault, What is an Author?; Discipline and Punish. pp. 1622-1647 13. Holiday 14. Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs. pp. 2269-2298 15. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. pp. 2488-2501; Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of Simulacra. pp. 1732-1741 16. Quentin Meillassoux, Ancesntrality. (handouts) 17. oral reports on final paper 18. final exam

Requirements include weekly written critiques, in-class oral reports, and one well-structured and deftly-argued final paper. weekly critique and in-class oral report 30% mid-term exam 30% final paper 40%

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. (on library's reserved shelf)