LITS3304 CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY:
(POST-)STRUCTURALISMS AND POST-COLONIALISMS

SEMESTER II, 2008-2009

MODULE TWO: LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY
 

WEEK  NINE: STRUCTURALIST MARXISM
(Week of March 23)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• Louis Althusser
  • Reading Capital [1965]: Part 1 "From Capital to Marx's Philosophy" (pp. 11-69)
  • "A Letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre" [1966] (pp. 1480-1483 in Leitch)

• 09A Althusser From Capital to Marx's Philosophy
• 09B Althusser "A Letter on Art in Reply to Andre Daspre"

• Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: a Study in Marxist Literary Theory [1976]: 
  • "Categories for a Materialist Criticism"  (pp. 44-63)
  • "Towards a Science of the Text" (pp. 64-101; also pp. 296-327 in Marxist Literary Theory: a Reader, ed. Eagleton and Drew Milne)

• 09C Eagleton Criticism and Ideology

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• Mulhern, Francis.  "Marxism in Literary Criticism."  New Left Review 108 (1978): .
• 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 RESOURCES

• Stucturalist Marxism:
  • Althusser
  • Macherey

WEEK TEN: STRUCTURALIST MARXISM CONTINUED
(Week of March 30)
 

• Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: a Study in Marxist Literary Theory [1976]: "Towards a Science of the Text" (CONTINUED)

• See notes above

• Homi Bhabha "Representation and the Colonial Text: Some Forms of Mimeticism" [1984] (pp. 93-122 in Frank Gloversmith, ed. The Theory of Reading)

• 10 Bhabha "Representation and the Colonial Text"
  • Seminar Presentation by Kerri-Ann Codrington and Lynn-Marie Broomes

• Moore-Gilbert, Bart.  "Homi Bhabha: 'the Babelian Performance.'"  Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics.  London: Verso, 1997.  114-151.

• Stucturalist Marxism:
  • Eagleton
• Post-colonial Theory:
  • Bhabha

WEEK ELEVEN: FOUCAULDIAN DISCOURSE THEORY
(Week of April 6)
 

• Michael Foucault "What is an Author?" [1969] (pp. 138-148 in Adams and Searle)

• 11A Foucault "What is an Author?"

• Stephen Greenblatt
  • "Towards a Poetics of Culture" [1986] (pp. 1-14 in The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser)
  • Shakespearean Negotiations [1988]: "The Circulation of Social Energy" (pp. 1-20) [read this essay on your own]

• 11B Greenblatt "Towards a Poetics of Culture"

• Culler, Jonathan.  "Stanley Fish and the Righting of the Reader."  The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.  119-131.

WEEK TWELVE: FOUCAULDIAN DISCOURSE THEORY CONTINUED
(Week of April 13)
 

• Edward Said "Secular Criticism" [1983] (pp. 1-30 in The World, the Text and the Critic; also pp. 605-622 in Adams and Searle)

• 12 Said "Secular Criticism"
  • Presentation by Azania Phillips and Angela Hurdle

• Edward Said "Secular Criticism" [1983] (CONTINUED)

• Moore-Gilbert, Bart.  "Edward Said: Orientalism and Beyond."  Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics.  London: Verso, 1997.  34-73.

• Deconstruction:
  • Fish
• Post-colonial Theory:
  • Said

FOOTNOTES