Schedule FA2019

Schedule of Readings & Assignments for FA 2019
Readings & assignments are due on the date listed unless otherwise noted. Unless otherwise noted, all readings and page numbers are from Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism (NATC), 3rd edition. (You must be logged into your Chico State Wildcat Google Drive to access pdf links.)
=== 8/26 ===
Course Intro & Wikia Workshop (bring a laptop or tablet; request one if you need one)
NATC, "Introduction to Theory and Criticism" pp 1-35 pdf link
Plato: “From Republic” pdf link - p. 58
Aristotle: “From Poetics” pdf link - p.99 
=== 9/2 - Labor Day: No Class ===
=== 9/9 ===
Marx: “From Capital, Volume 1” - p. 667
Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” pdf link
=== 9/16 ===
Begin Partner Wiki Work 
de Saussure: “From Course in General Linguistics” - p. 824 
Derrida: "Dissemination" ("Plato's Pharmacy," Parts I & II) - p. 1608
=== 9/23 ===
Woolf: “From A Room of One’s Own” - p. 857 
Said: “From Orientalism” - p. 1783
=== 9/30 ===
Deleuze & Guattari, “From Introduction: Rhizome” - p. 1374
Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of It's Technological Reproducibility”
=== 10/7Classical Poetics & Criticism ===
Begin Individual Wiki Work
Horace: “Ars Poetica" 
de Pizan: “Christine’s Reaction to Jean de Montreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose” 
de Lorris & de Meun, “From The Roman de la Rose” pdf link
Spinoza: "From Theological-Political Treatise"
DUE: AE1
=== 10/14 Marxisms ===
Gramsci: “The Formation of Intellectuals”
Althusser: “From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” 
Li: "From Four Essays"
=== 10/21 Psychoanalysis ===
Lacan: “from The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious”
Kristeva: “From Revolution in Poetic Language” 
Kaplan: "From Trauma Culture" 
Stein, Tender Buttons (in class)
=== 10/28 Formalisms & (post)structuralism ===
Empson: “Seven Types of Ambiguity” pdf link 
Best & Marcus: "from Surface Reading: An Introduction" 
bell hooks: "Postmodern Blackness" 
=== 11/4 Feminisms, Gender & Sexuality ===
Gilbert & Gubar: “From The Madwoman in the Attic” 
Crenshaw: "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex" pdf link
Berlant & Warner: "Sex in Public"
=== 11/11 Veteran's Day: No Class ===
=== 11/18 Post-Colonialism ===
Fanon: “The Wretched of the Earth: From on National Culture” 
Spivak: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Chow: "From Sentimental Fabulations"
DUE: AE 2 (due Friday, 11/22)
=== 11/25 - 29 Thanksgiving Break - No Class ===
=== 12/2 Posthumanisms ===
Haraway: "From a Manifesto for Cyborgs" 
Morton: "The Ecological Thought"
Wolfe: “Human, All Too Human” pdf link
=== 12/9 Digital Theories & Methods ===
Hayles: "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine"
Unsworth: “What Is Humanities Computing, and What Is It Not” web link
Nelson: "Afro-Futurism: Past-Future Visions"
=== 12/16 Finals Week ===
DUE: Final Course/Wiki Analytical Reflection (due via email by 5pm on Friday, 12/20)