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. The Time Bomb in the Laboratory 3. Roman Jakobson, Linguistics and Poetics; Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances. pp. 1258-1268; Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics. pp. 960-976 4. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Fetishism. pp. 919-928, 952-955 5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, Various Selections. pp. 764-787 6. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. pp. 1166-1185 7. Jacques Lacan, The Mirror Stage; The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious. pp. 1285-1301 8. Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus. pp. 1483-1508 9. mid-term 10. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish; Truth and Power. pp. 1636-1647, 1667-1670 11. Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language. pp. 2169-2179 12. no class 13. Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs. pp. 2269-2298 14. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. pp. 2488-2501 15. Quentin Meillassoux, “Ancestrality” 16. oral reports on the final paper 17. no class 18. final

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 30% final paper 40%

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