LITS3303 READING SCHEDULE
MODULE TWO:
PHENOMENOLOGICIAL CRITICAL THEORY, FEMINIST THEORY,
POST-COLONIAL THEORY
Week 7: Phenomenological Critical Theory
I: THE AUTHOR
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Why Write?" [1948] (pp. 984-992 in Adams; also
pp. 1136-1349 in Leitch)
- E. D. Hirsch "Objective Interpretation" [1960] (pp. 1100-1115 in
Adams; also pp. 1684-1708 in Leitch)
Seminar 2:
- Georges Poulet "Phenomenology of Reading [originally known as
"Criticism and the Experience of Interiority"]" [1969] (pp. 1147-1154 in Adams; also
pp. 1320-1332 in Leitch)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
WEEK 8:
Phenomenological Critical Theory II: THE READER
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
- Hans Robert Jauss "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary
Theory" [1967] (pp. 1550-1564 in Leitch)
Seminar 2:
- Wolfgang Iser "Interaction Between Text and Reader" [1980] (pp.
1673-1682 in Leitch)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
Week 9:
Phenomenological Feminist PHILOSOPHY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
Seminar 2:
- Shulasmith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex:
Chapter
1: "The Dialectic of Sex" [1970] (also in
The Second Wave: a Reader in Feminist Theory, ed. Linda Nicholson)
- Dale Spender
Man Made Language
[1980] (see extracts in The Feminist Critique of Language, ed. Deborah
Cameron)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
[note that the
notes above are mine and not the presentations which were distributed in
class]
WEEK 10:
Phenomenological Feminist CRITICAL THEORY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
[1949]: Chapter 11: "Myth
and Reality" (pp. 996-1000 in Adams; also pp. 1406-1414 in Leitch)
Seminar 2:
- Patrocinio Schweickart "Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of
Reading" [1986] (pp. 525-550 in Feminisms, ed. Diane Warhol and Robyn Herndl; also in
folder)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
[note that the
notes above are mine and not the presentations which were distributed in
class]
Week 11:
Phenomenological Post-colonial Theory
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
- Frantz Fanon Black Skin White Masks [1952]:
- Ch. 1: "The Negro and Language" (also in folder)
- Ch. 5: "The Fact of Blackness" (also in folder)
- Ch. 7: "The Negro and Recognition" (also in
folder)
Seminar 2:
- Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth [1961]:
- Ch. 1: "Concerning
Violence" (also in folder)
- Ch. 4: "On National Culture" (pp. 1587-1593 in Leitch)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
- Fanon:
- Black Skin White Masks:
- The Wretched of the Earth:
[note that the
notes above are mine and not the presentations which were distributed in
class]
WEEK 12:
Phenomenological Post-colonial CRITICAL
Theory
Required Readings:
Seminar 1
- George Lamming "The Negro Writer and his World"
[1956] (in his Essays, Addresses and Interviews, ed. Richard Drayton,
et al.; also in folder)
- Derek Walcott "The Muse of History" (pp. 1-27 in Is Massa Day Done?,
ed. Orde Coombs; abbreviated version in Caribbean Critics, ed, Edward
Baugh; abbreviated version also in folder)
Seminar 2:
- Abdul JanMohamed "The Economy of Manichean Allegory: the Function of
Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature" [1986] (pp. 78-106 in 'Race,'
Writing and Difference, ed. Ed. Henry Louis Gates; also in folder)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
[note that the
notes above are mine and not the presentations which were distributed in
class]
END OF MODULE TWO
[you should be revising for the exam]