LITS3304 READING SCHEDULE MODULE
TWO
WEEK 6: DIALOGICAL CRITICAL THEORY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
- We will finish off the Foucault essay ("Two Lectures") before proceeding
to Bakhtin.
- Mikhail Bakhtin "Discourse in the Novel"
(1935) (pp. 259-422 in The Dialogic
Imagination: Four Essays): at least read
- either "From 'Discourse in the Novel.'" Critical Theory Since 1965.
Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.
664-678.
- or "The Heteroglot Novel." The Bakhtin Reader.
Ed. Pam Morris. London: Edward
Arnold, 1994. 112-120.
- or "Heteroglossia in the Novel."
Bakhtinian Thought: an
Introductory Reader. Ed. Simon Dentith. London: Routledge, 1995.
195-224. [book on reserve]
Seminar 2:
- Mikhail Bakhtin "Discourse in the Novel"
(1935) (pp. 259-422 in The Dialogic
Imagination: Four Essays): at least read
- either "From 'Discourse in the Novel.'" Critical Theory Since 1965.
Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.
664-678.
- or "The Heteroglot Novel." The Bakhtin Reader.
Ed. Pam Morris. London: Edward
Arnold, 1994. 112-120.
- or "Heteroglossia in the Novel." Bakhtinian Thought: an
Introductory Reader. Ed. Simon Dentith. London: Routledge, 1995.
195-224. [book on reserve]
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
- Dentith, Simon. "Bakhtin on the Novel." Bakhtinian Thought: an
Introductory Reader. London: Routledge, 1994. 41-64.
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
Preliminary Reading:
Dialogical Critical Theory:
WEEK 7: STRUCTURALIST MARXIST CRITICAL THEORY
NB. Professor Boxill is
visiting Cave Hill this week. This is an event in the 2005-2006 series
organised by the Cave Hill Theory Project. He will deliver a public lecture ("Walcott's
One Endeavour") on Tuesday March 14 in the ALT at 8 pm. He will
also deliver a paper ("Du Bois and Douglass on the Sorrow Songs"), together with
selected invited papers by others, at a workshop on Wednesday March 15 in the
Conference Room in the Staff Luncheon Facility (the SCR) from 1 pm. He will meet with
students of Literature, Theory, etc. on Thursday March 16 in A27 from 10 am
(i.e. during our normal class time). You are required to attend the
meeting on Thursday and I would urge you to attend the public lecture and
workshop as well.
To accommodate Prof. Boxill, we will therefore postpone discussion
of the Althusser and Eagleton readings, originally scheduled for seminar 2 this
week, till Tuesday next week. There will also be an extra class on Wednesday
next week (probably in the Bruce St. John Conference Room) in which we will deal with the
Fish essay. On the Thursday, we will be back on schedule and will discuss the
Said essay.
Required Readings:
Seminar 1:
- Pierre Macherey and Étienne Balibar "On Literature as an Ideological
Form" (1974) (pp.
275-295
in Marxist
Literary Theory, ed. Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne; also in folder)
Seminar 2:
- Meeting with Prof. Bernard Boxill
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
- Clarke, Richard L. W. "Pierre Macherey (1938 - )."
Twentieth-Century European Cultural Theorists. 2nd Series.
Vol. 296 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Paul Hansom.
Detroit: Gale, 2004. 296-304.
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
WEEK 8: FOUCAULDIAN CRITICAL THEORY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1 (Tuesday):
- Louis Althusser "A Letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre" (pp.
221-228 in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays; also pp.
269-274 in
Marxist Literary Theory: a Reader, ed. Eagleton and Drew Milne; also
in folder)
- Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: a Study in Marxist Literary Theory
(1976): "Towards a Science of the Text" (pp. 64-101) (also
pp. 296-327 in
Marxist Literary Theory: a Reader, ed. Eagleton and Drew Milne; also
in folder)
Seminar 2 (Wednesday):
- Stanley Fish "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable" (1980)
(pp. 338-355 in his
Is There a Text in this Class?; also in folder)
Seminar 3 (Thursday):
- Edward Said "Secular Criticism" (1983) (pp. 1-30 in The World, the Text and the Critic;
also pp. 605-622 in Adams and Searle)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
- Mulhern, Francis. "Marxism in Literary Criticism."
New Left
Review 108 (1978): .
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
WEEK 9: NON-WESTERN
(POST-COLONIAL) THEORY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1: the Discourse of Colonialism
- Edward Said Orientalism (1978) (see excerpt,
pp. 132-149 in Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Laura Chrisman and
Patrick Williams; also in folder)
Seminar 2: the Colonial Social Formation
- Stuart Hall "Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in
Dominance" (1980) (pp. 305-345 in Sociological Theories: Race and
Colonialism [no editor]; also in
Black British Cultural Studies, ed. Houston Baker)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
- Moore-Gilbert, Bart. "Edward Said: Orientalism and Beyond."
Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics. London:
Verso, 1997. 34-73.
- Morley, David, and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1996.
[passim]
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
WEEK 10: NON-WESTERN (POST-COLONIAL) THEORY
Dr. Thomas Glave, a gay Jamaican scholar, will be
visiting campus this week and will address issues of sexuality, a question of
great concern for Foucault. This is another event in the 2005-2006 series
organised by the Cave Hill Theory Project. On Tuesday this week, Dr. Glave
will deliver a seminar ("Queering Caribbean Lit.") at 10 am and a public lecture
(with readings from and discussions of his Words to Our Now: Imagination and
Dissent) at 8 pm. Your
attendance is required at the former (which will take place in A27 during normal
class time) and is urged at the latter.
On Wednesday (a make-up class, probably in the Bruce
St. John Conference Room) and Thursday (regular class-time), we will turn our
attention to another Caribbean scholar who has engaged substantially with
Foucauldian ideas, Prof. David Scott.
Required Readings:
Seminar 1 (Tuesday): Seminar presented by Dr. Glave; please read the
following (which can be used to answer questions in in the final exam)
- Thomas Glave Words to our Now: Imagination and
Dissent:
- "Towards a Nobility of the Imagination: Jamaica's Shame" (in folder)
- "Fire and Ink: Toward a Quest for Language, History, and a Moral
Imagination" (in folder)
- "Between Jamaica(n) and (North) America(n): Convergent (Divergent)
Territories" (in folder)
Seminar 2 (Wednesday): Colonial Governmentality
- David Scott "Colonial Governmentality." Social Text
43 (1995): 191-220 (rpt. pp. 23-52 in his Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality;
also in folder)
Seminar 3 (Thursday): the Post-Colonial Cognitive-Political Crisis
- David Scott
- "Revolution / Theory / Modernity: Notes on the
Cognitive-Political Crisis of Our Time." Social and Economic
Studies 44.2-3 (1995): 1-23 (also in folder)
- "'An Obscure Miracle of Connections'" (1997) (pp. 106-127 in his Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality;
also in folder)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
- Morley, David, and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1996.
[passim]
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
WEEK 11: NON-WESTERN
(POST-COLONIAL) CRITICAL THEORY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1: the Political Unconscious of African Literature
- Abdul JanMohamed Manichean Aesthetics: the Politics of Literature in
Colonial Africa (1983): "Introduction" and "Conclusion"
(also in folder)
Seminar 2: Rethinking Representation
-
Homi Bhabha "Representation and the Colonial Text: Some Forms of
Mimeticism" (1984) (pp. 93-122 in Frank Gloversmith, ed. The Theory of Reading;
also in folder)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
WEEK 12: NON-WESTERN
(POST-COLONIAL) CRITICAL THEORY
Required Readings:
Seminar 1: Counter-Discursive Literature
- Helen Tiffin "Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse"
Kunapipi
9.3 (1987): 17-34 (also in folder)
Seminar 2: African American / Post-colonial Literary History
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Signifying Monkey (1988):
- "The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g)":
Section I (pp. 44-51)
- "Figures of Signification" (pp. 89-124)
Recommended Readings:
Off-Line:
- Bucknell, Brad. "Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Theory of Signifyin(g)."
Ariel 21 (1990): 65-83.
PhilWeb On-Line:
Notes:
END OF MODULE TWO
[LITS3304 students should be preparing for the
exam; LITS6003 students should be writing their term paper]