Readings

The readings need engagement and you need to be working with them, pen or pencil in hand, making notes, raising questions etc. In addition, you will be asked to read a part or all of the following required texts:

Buy at Amazon Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781500376765.

Buy at Amazon Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Tribeca Books, 2013. ISBN: 9781936594191. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN: 9781506138855. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698.

TOPICS
New Criticism and American Reader Response Criticism

Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Buy at Amazon Brooks, Cleanth. "Keats's Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes." In The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1975.

Buy at Amazon Wimsatt, W. K, and Monroe C. Beardsley. "The Intentional Fallacy." In The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. University of Kentucky Press, 1967.

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Affective Fallacy." In The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. University of Kentucky Press, 1967.

Buy at Amazon Potter, Lois. "Lawrence of Virtuous Father" and "Avenge O Lord". In A Preface to Milton. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 9781138835870. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Fish, Stanley. "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics." In Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 22–37. ISBN: 9780674467255. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "Interpreting the Variorum." Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 148–73. ISBN: 9780674467255. [Preview with Google Books]

Structuralism

Buy at Amazon Saussure, Ferdinand De. Course in General Linguistics. Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780231157278. [Preview with Google Books]

Brémond, Claude. "Morphology of the French Folktale." Semiotica 2, no. 3 (1970): 247–76.

The Brothers Grimm. "Rapunzel."

Greimas, A. J., and F. Rastier. "The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints." Yale French Studies, no. 41 (1968): 86–105.
Required Reading: pp 86–95. Remainder of article is optional.

Notes 4 (PDF)
Overview of key points of Saussure

Structuralism (cont.)

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Structural Study of Myth." In Structural Anthropology Vol. 2. University of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780226474915.

Buy at Amazon Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781500376765.

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?" In The Foucault Reader. Vintage Books, 2010.

Deconstruction

Buy at Amazon Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." In Writing and Difference. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255370.

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. Elementary Structures of Kinship. Beacon Press, 1971, pp. 3–12, 23–25, and 29–33. ISBN: 9780807046692.

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Writing Lesson." In Tristes Tropiques. Modern Library, 1997. ISBN: 9780679602460.

Notes 5 (PDF)
Notes on extract from "Elementary Structures"

Notes 6 (PDF)
Notes on Structure, Sign and Play

Deconstruction (cont.)

Buy at Amazon Derrida, Jaques. "Signature, Event, Context." In Limited Inc. Northwestern University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780810107878. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Austin, John Langshaw. Lecture 1 in How To Do Things With Words. Harvard University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780674411524. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Dinesen, Isak. "The Blank Page." In Last Tales. Penguin Books Limited, 2001. ISBN: 9780141184951.

Optional Readings

Buy at Amazon Johnson, Barbara. "Nothing Fails Like Success." In A World of Difference. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780801837456. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism. Cornell University Press, 2008, pp. 110–25 and 131–34. ISBN: 9780801474057.

Psychoanalysis: Freud

Buy at Amazon Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN: 9781506138855. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories. Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. vii–xv and 3–19. ISBN: 9780199538843.

Lacan, Jacques. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience." Ecrits, A Selection (1949): 1–7.

Psychoanalysis and Lacan

Buy at Amazon Zizek, Slavoj. Chapter 1 in Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415772594. [Preview with Google Books]

Chaplin, Charlie. "City Lights."

Poe Edgar Allen. "The Purloined Letter." 1845.

Lacan, Jacques. "The Seminar on The Purloined Letter." Yale French Studies 48 (1972): 39–72.

Optional Reading

Johnson, Barbara. "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida." Yale French Studies, no. 55/56 (1977): 457-505.

Notes 9 (PDF)
Notes on Zizek's graphs

Psychoanalysis and Lacan (cont.)

Buy at Amazon Zizek, Slavoj. Chapter 3 in The Sublime Object of Ideology. 2nd ed. Verso, 2009. ISBN: 9781844673001. [Preview with Google Books]

Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Color, 129 min. 1958.

Michel Foucault

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. Parts 3 and 4 in Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 4th ed. Vintage Books, 2007, pp. 135–95. ISBN: 9780679752554.

Buy at Amazon Davidson, Arnold I. "Foucault Revolutionizes History." In Foucault and His Interlocutors. University of Chicago Press Journals, 1998. ISBN: 9780226137148.

Buy at Amazon Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Tribeca Books, 2013. ISBN: 9781936594191. [Preview with Google Books]

Michel Foucault (cont.)
Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698.
Continuation of Earlier Material
No new readings assigned.
Latour and Kittler

Buy at Amazon Latour, Bruno. Pandora's Hope: An Essay on the Reality of Science Studies. Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 113–44. ISBN: 9780674653368. 

Buy at Amazon Kittler, Friedrich A. "The Mother's Mouth." Discourse Networks, 1800 / 1900. Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780804720991. [Preview with Google Books]