MODULE THREE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITICISM

Week 9: (Existentialist) Phenomenology
Required Readings:
Lec. 1: The History of Phenomenology

• G. W. F. Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit: "The Master / Slave Dialectic" (in Leitch)
• Friedrich Nietzsche "Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense" (in Adams; also in Leitch)

• Edward Husserl
  • "The Vienna Lecture" (in Richard Kearney, ed. The Continental Philosophy Reader; also in folder)
  • "Phenomenology" (in Richard Kearney, ed. The Continental Philosophy Reader; also in folder)
  • "Cartesian Meditations" (in William McNeill et al., eds. Continental Philosophy: an Anthology; also in folder)
• Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism and Humanism (also in folder)

Recommended Readings:

• Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an Introduction: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory" (section on Phenomenology)
• Robert Holub "Phenomenology" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)

Week 10: Phenomenological Critical Theory (Existentialism / Reader-Response Theory / Reception Aesthetics)
Required Readings:
Lec. 1: The Author

• Jean-Paul Sartre "Why Write?" (in Adams; also in Leitch)
• Georges Poulet "Phenomenology of Reading" (in Adams; also in Leitch)

• Wolfgang Iser "Interaction Between Text and Reader" (in Leitch)
• Hans Robert Jauss "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory" (in Leitch)

Recommended Readings:

• Peter Rabinowitz "Other Reader-Oriented Theories" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
• Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an Introduction: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"
• Ian Maclean "Reading and Interpretation" (in Jefferson, et al, eds. Modern Literary Theory)
• Robert Holub "Reception Theory: School of Constance" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
• Lois Tyson Critical Theory Today: "Reader-Response Criticism"

• Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex: "Summary" (in Adams)
• Dale Spender Man Made Language (Extracts in Deborah Cameron, ed. The Feminist Critique of Language; also in folder)

• Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex: "Myth and Reality" (in Adams; also in Leitch)
• Patrocinio Schweickart "Reading Ourselves: toward a Feminist Theory of Reading" (in Warhol and Herndl, ed. Feminisms; also in folder)
• Janice Radway "Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: the Functions of Romance Reading" (in folder)

• Maggie Humm Feminist Criticism:
  • "Pioneers"
  • "Adrienne Rich"
• Rosemary Tong Feminist Thought: an Introduction: "Existentialist Feminism"

• Frantz Fanon:
  • Black Skin White Masks:
    • "The Negro and Recognition" (also in folder)
    • "The Fact of Blackness" (also in folder)
    • "The Negro and Language" (also in folder)
  • The Wretched of the Earth: "Concerning Violence" (also in folder)

• Abdul JanMohamed "The Economy of Manichean Allegory: the Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature" (in Henry Louis Gates' 'Race,' Writing and Difference)
• Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth: "On National Culture" (in Leitch; also in Williams and Chrisman) 
• George Lamming George Lamming–Essays, Addresses and Interviews: "The Negro Writer and His World" (also in folder)