Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: syllabus
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Frances Restuccia, Boston College
Week 1
Introduction
Barthes: "From Work to Text"
2 Week
Freud: "Fetishism"
3 Week
Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
4 Week
Derrida: "Plato’s Pharmacy"
5 Week
Derrida: "Plato’s Pharmacy"
Lacan: "Encore" (selections)
6 Week
Lacan: "Encore"
PAPER DUE (5 pp.) end of this week
Mid-term break
7 Week
Kristeva: "Intimate Revolt" (selections)
8 Week
Kristeva: "Intimate Revolt" (cont.)
Foucault: "History of Sexuality" (selections)
9 Week
Foucault: "History of Sexuality" (selections)
Deleuze: "Rhizome"
10 Week
Said: Introduction to "Orientalism"
11 Week
Butler selections from "Gender Trouble"
12 Week
Agamben "Profanations"
PAPER DUE at the end of this week (10 PAGES)
Exams Week
