It will reflect on the status of gender in debates in political theory and ethnicity by Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, and others, and finally reflect on recent queer theory. In addition to essays by various critics, we will also consider recent movies like The Crying Game. The course fulfills the requirements of one Humanities theory course for the Women s Studies Certificate for graduate students. The course is open to undergraduate students by permission only. Prince An investigation of such topics in the theory of narrative as plot, meta-narrative signs, narrative grammars, narrative legibility, the narratee.
Topics vary from term to term.
Through metaphor, transformations of time, the expression of emotion and the resources of form, poetry gives us knowledge both unique to the experience of poetic works themselves and of cognitive value more generally. In this course we will read a number of works in the history of poetics concerned with poetic thinking beside a range of exemplary poems from various periods. Students will be responsible for four brief response papers and a final paper of 12-15 pages. This seminar will address the constitution of a specific type of hero in the age of modernism. The psychoanalytic theme will be linked with the esthetic problematic of the sublime as developed by Kant, Lacan, Zizek and a few others.