LITS3304 / E33D READING SCHEDULE, NOTES AND
QUESTIONS
MODULE ONE:
SEMIOTICS / STRUCTURALISM
WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION
Sem. 1: Introduction: Course Website, Overview of Course Objectives, Etc. (For this class only, we meet in Microlab 2 in the Computer Centre)
Sem. 2: Background material (we take up our 'residency' from this point onwards in A27)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
Richard Kearney Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Introduction (1-9)
On-Line:
WEEK 2: SEMIOTICS: SAUSSURE's PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Required Readings:
Sem. 1:
Ferdinand de Saussure: "From Course in General Linguistics" [1916] (in Adams and Searle and in Leitch)
Sem. 2:
Ferdinand de Saussure: "From Course in General Linguistics" (in Adams and Searle and in Leitch)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
On-Line:
Notes:
Questions:
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WEEK 3: STRUCTURALISM: LEVI-STRAUSS' PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Required Readings:
Sem. 1:
Sem. 2:
Recommended Readings:
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On-Line:
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Week 4: STRUCTURALIST AESTHETICS / CRITICAL THEORY I: The PARADIGMATIC AXIS
Required Readings:
Sem. 1: the Saussurean Critique of ‘Realism’:
Sem. 2: the Saussurean Critique of ‘Self-expression’
Recommended Readings:
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On-Line:
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Week 5: STRUCTURALIST AESTHETICS / CRITICAL THEORY II: The SYNTAGMATIC AXIS
Required Readings:
Sem. 1: Structuralist Poetics:
Sem. 2: Structuralist Narratology:
Recommended Readings:
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On-Line:
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WEEK 6: POST-COLONIAL, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
Required Readings:
Sem. 1: the Paradigmatic Axis
Sem. 2: the Syntagmatic Axis
Recommended Readings:
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On-Line:
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