MODULE THREE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITICISM
(NB readings that
are hyperlinked and / or found in Adams and / or
Leitch will not be found in the E23G Folder)
Week 9: Phenomenology
Required Readings:
Lec. 1: Transcendental Phenomenology
Lec. 2: Existential Phenomenology
Recommended Readings:
- Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an
Introduction: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"
- Patrick Colm Hogan Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature:
"Philosophy of Mind and Experience: Phenomenology,
Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Pragmatism"
- Robert Holub "Phenomenology" (in
Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from
Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
Week 10: Phenomenological Critical Theory
Required Readings:
Lec. 1: The Author: Hermeneutics
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Why Write?" [1948] (in Adams; also in Leitch)
- E. D. Hirsch "Objective Interpretation" [1960] (in
Adams; also in Leitch)
- Georges Poulet "Phenomenology of Reading" [1969] (in Adams; also in
Leitch)
Lec. 2: The Reader: the Constance School of Reception
Aesthetics
- Wolfgang Iser "Interaction Between Text and Reader" (in Leitch)
- Hans Robert Jauss "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary
Theory" [1967] (in Leitch)
Recommended Readings:
- Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: an
Introduction: "Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory"
- Elizabeth Freund The Return of the Reader:
Reader-Response Criticism
- Wendell V. Harris "Hermeneutics" (in his Literary
Meaning)
- J. Hillis Miller "The Geneva School" Critical
Quarterly 8 (1966)
- Robert Holub "Reception Theory: School
of Constance" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge
History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol.
8)
- Robert Holub Reception Theory: a
Critical Introduction
- David Hoy Critical Circle: Literature, History, and
Philosophical Hermeneutics
- P. D. Juhl Interpretation: an Essay in the Philosophy of
Literary Criticism
- Sarah Lawall Critics of Consciousness: the Existential
Structures of Liteature
- Ian Maclean "Reading and
Interpretation" (in Jefferson, et al, eds. Modern Literary Theory)
- Robert Magliola Phenomenology and Literature
- Steven Mailloux Interpretive
Conventions: the Reader in the Study of American Literature
- Richard Palmer Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in
Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer
- William Ray Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to
Deconstruction
- Peter Rabinowitz "Other Reader-Oriented Theories"
(in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from
Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
- Lois Tyson Critical Theory Today:
"Reader-Response Criticism"
Week 11: Feminist Theory: Phenomenological Emphases
Required Readings:
Lec. 1: Cultural Theory
- Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
[1949]:
- Shulasmith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex: Chapter
1: "The Dialectic of Sex" [1970] (also in
Linda Nicholson, ed. The Second Wave: a Reader in Feminist Theory;
also in E23G folder)
- Dale Spender Man Made Language
(extracts in Deborah
Cameron, ed. The Feminist Critique of Language; also in E23G folder)
Lec. 2: Critical Theory
- Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
[1949]: Chapter 11: "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
E23G folder)
Recommended Readings:
- Maggie Humm Feminist Criticism:
- "Pioneers"
- "Adrienne Rich"
- Rosemary Tong Feminist Thought: an
Introduction: "Existentialist Feminism"
Week 12: Post-colonial Theory: Phenomenological
Emphases
Required Readings:
Lec. 1: Cultural Theory
- Frantz Fanon:
- Black Skin White Masks [1952]:
- "The Negro and Recognition" (also in
E23G folder)
- "The Fact of Blackness" (also in E23G folder)
- "The Negro and Language" (also in E23G folder)
- The Wretched of the Earth [1961]: "Concerning
Violence" (also in E23G folder)
Lec. 2: Critical Theory
- Abdul JanMohamed "The Economy of Manichean Allegory: the Function of
Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature" (in Henry Louis Gates' 'Race,'
Writing and Difference; also in E23G folder)
- George Lamming George
Lamming–Essays, Addresses and Interviews: "The Negro Writer and His World"
[1956] (also in E23G folder)
- Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth [1961]: "On National
Culture" (in Leitch; also in Williams and Chrisman)