E33D / E60B MODULE TWO: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Week 5:
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE / MIND / EPISTEMOLOGY
Sem. 1: Archaeology:
Epistemology / Philosophy of Language
- Michel Foucault The
Archaeology of Knowledge:
- Appendix: "The Discourse on Language" (also in Adams and
Searle; also in folder)
- Chapter One "The Unities of Discourse" (also in folder)
- Chapter Two "Discursive Formations" (also in folder)
- Chapter Three "The Formation of Objects" (also in Julie Rivkin and
Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: an Anthology; also in folder)
Sem. 2: Genealogy: Epistemology /
Philosophy of Language / Philosophy of the Body
- Michel Foucault
- "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" (in Paul
Rabinow,
ed. The Foucault Reader; also in folder)
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: see excerpts in David
Richter, ed. The Critical Tradition (also in folder)
Recommended Readings:
- Michele Barrett The Politics of
Truth: From Marx to Foucault: "History, Discourse, 'Truth' and
Power: Foucault's Critique of Ideology"
- Peter Dews "Power and Subjectivity in
Foucault." New Left Review 44 (1984): 72-95.
- Richard Harland Superstructuralism:
"Foucault as Archaeologist"
- Madup Saran Post-Structuralism and
Postmodernism: "Foucault and the Social Sciences"
- Alan Sheridan Michel Foucault: the Will
to Truth
- Alan Schrift Nietzsche's French Legacy:
a Genealogy of Poststructuralism: "Foucault: Genealogy, Power, and
the Reconfiguration of the Subject"
- David Shumway Michel
Foucault
- Barry Smart Michel Foucault
- Hayden White
- The Content of the Form:
"Foucault's Discourse: the Historiography of Anti-Humanism"
- Tropics of Discourse:
"Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground"
Week 6: DISCURSIVE
CRITICAL THEORY
Sem. 1: Representation / The Reader
- Edward Said "Secular Criticism" (in Adams and Searle; also in
folder)
- Stanley Fish Is
There a Text in this Class?: "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable"
(also in folder)
Sem. 2: Authorship / Literary History (Discourse /
Counter-Discourse)
- Michel Foucault "What Is an Author?" (in Paul
Rabinow,
ed. The Foucault Reader;
also in Leitch; also in Adams and Searle; also in folder)
- Richard Terdiman Discourse / Counter-Discourse
[1985]: "Introduction: On Symbolic Resistance" (also
in folder)
Recommended Readings:
Praxis:
- John Bender Imagining the Penitentiary:
Fiction and the Architecture of Min in Eighteenth Century England
- Jeremy Tambling "Prison-Bound: Dickens
and Foucault" Essays in Criticism 36 (1986): 11-31(also in
Steven Connor, ed. Charles Dickens)
WEEK 7: FEMINIST
THEORY: DISCURSIVE EMPHASES
Sem. 1: Philosophy of Language / Mind
-
Judith Butler Gender Trouble: see
excerpt entitled "Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic
Discourse" in Linda Nicholson, ed. Feminism/Postmodernism (also
in folder)
Sem. 2: Critical Theory
- Biddy Martin "Feminism, Criticism and Foucault"
(in Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, eds. Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on
Resistance; also in folder)
- Janice Radway Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy
and Popular Literature [1974]: see selection entitled "Interpretive
Communities and Variable Literacies: the Functions of Romance Reading"
in Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan, eds. A Cultural Studies Reader; see
also the selection in Robin Warhol and Diane Herndl, eds. Feminisms)
Recommended Readings:
Week 8: Post-colonial / African American
THEORY: DISCURSIVE EMPHASES
Sem. 1: Colonial Discourse
- Edward Said Orientalism: see excerpts entitled "From Orientalism"
in Chrisman and Williams
Sem. 2: Post-colonial
Counter-Discourse
- Helen Tiffin "Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse"
Kunapipi
9.3 (1987): 17-34 (also in folder)
Recommended Readings:
- Bart Moore-Gilbert Post-colonial
Theory: chapter on Said
- Robert Young White Mythologies: chapter on Said