LITS3304 POST-STRUCTURALISMS AND POST-COLONIALISMS

MODULE THREE: FOUCAULDIAN DISCOURSE THEORY
 

WEEK TEN: FOUCAULT
(Week of November 7)
 

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge [1969]:
• The Archaeology of Knowledge [1969]:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One "The Unities of Discourse"
  • Chapter Two "Discursive Formations"
  • Chapter Three "The Formation of Objects"

  Rescheduled for Thursday November 11

• 10A Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge: Chapters 1-3

• Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge:
  • Chapter Four "The Formation of Enunciative Modalities"
  • Chapter Five "The Formation of Concepts"
  • Chapter Six "The Formation of Strategies"
  • Chapter Seven "Remarks and Consequences"

  Rescheduled for Monday November 15

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

• Gutting, Gary: Michel Foucault (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Kelly, Mark: Michel Foucault (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

PHILWEB RESOURCES:

• Foucauldian Theory:
  • Foucault

WEEK ELEVEN: FOUCAULT CONTINUED
(Week of November 14)
 

REQUIRED READINGS:

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

Rescheduled for Tuesday November 16

• 11A Foucault, "What is an Author?"

• Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" [1971] (pp. 76-100 in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow)

Rescheduled for Thursday November 18

• 11B Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

PHILWEB RESOURCES:

• Foucauldian Theory:
  • Foucault

WEEK TWELVE: FOUCAULDIAN LITERARY THEORY
(Week of November 21)
 

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Stephen Greenblatt, "Towards a Poetics of Culture" [1986] (pp. 1-14 in The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser)

Rescheduled for Monday November 22

• 12A Greenblatt, "Towards a Poetics of Culture"

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

Rescheduled for Tuesday November 23

• 12B Said, "Secular Criticism"

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

PHILWEB RESOURCES:

• Greenblatt
• Said

WEEK THIRTEEN: FOUCAULDIAN POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
(Week of November 28)
 

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Edward Said, Orientalism [1978]: Introduction and "The Scope of Orientalism" (pp. 1991-2012 in Leitch; see also excerpt, pp. 132-149 in Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Laura Chrisman and Patrick Williams)

Rescheduled for Thursday November 25

• 13 Said, Orientalism

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES:

• Post-colonial Theory:
  • Said