LITS3304 / E33D READING SCHEDULE, NOTES AND QUESTIONS
MODULE TWO: DECONSTRUCTION

Required Readings:

Sem. 1: the Critique of Saussure I

• Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology [1967]: Chapter 2 "Linguistics and Grammatology": "The Outside and the Inside" (in Adams and Searle)

Sem. 2: the Critique of Saussure II

• Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology [1967]: Chapter 2 "Linguistics and Grammatology": "The Outside is the Inside" (in Adams and Searle)

Sem. 1: the Critique of Saussure III

• Jacques Derrida "Différance" [1968] (in Adams and Searle)

• Derrida
  • "Différance"
  • "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" I think we have had enough of Derrida per se for the moment, so we will skip this essay.
  • Derrida's Philosophy of Language: an Overview

Sem. 1: the Deconstruction of Self-Expression

• Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author" [1968] (in Hazard Adams, ed. Critical Theory Since Plato; also in Leitch)

Sem. 2: Textual Analysis

• Roland Barthes "Textual Analysis of a Tale by Poe" [1973] (in his The Semiotic Challenge; also in David Lodge, ed. Modern Critical Theory; also in folder)

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WEEK 10: DECONSTRUCTIVE AESTHETICS / CRITICAL THEORY II

Required Readings:

Sem. 1: the Deconstruction of Realism

Sem. 2: Intertextuality

• Harold Bloom Poetry and Repression: "Poetry, Revisionism, Repression" [1976] (in Adams and Searle)

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WEEK 11: POST-COLONIAL AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES I:
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Sem. 1:

• Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture: "The Commitment to Theory" [1988] (see also the abbreviated version entitled "Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences" in Bill Ashcroft, et al., eds. The Post-colonial Studies Reader)

Sem. 2:

WEEK 12: POST-COLONIAL AND AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES II:
AESTHETICS / CRITICAL THEORY

Required Readings:

Sem. 1:

• Homi Bhabha "Representation and the Colonial Text: Some Forms of Mimeticism" [1984] (in Frank Gloversmith, ed. The Theory of Reading; also in folder)

Sem. 2: