Schedule FA20

Schedule of Readings & Assignments for FA 2020

Readings & assignments are due on the date listed unless otherwise noted. All readings are available via web links, library database links, or pdf. (You must be logged into your Chico State Wildcat Google Drive to access library and pdf links.)

### 8/25 Course Intro

Course Intro & Wikia Workshop (have a Wikia account ready)

"Introduction"from *Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism*, pdf link

Plato: “From Republic” pdf link

Aristotle: “From Poetics” pdf link

### 9/1

Begin Partner Wiki Leading

Hegel: "Lordship and Bondage" from *Phenomenology of Mind* web link

Marx: "The Fetishism of Commodities," from *Capital, Volume 1* web link

Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” pdf link

### 9/8

de Saussure: “From Course in General Linguistics” pdf link

Empson: “Seven Types of Ambiguity” pdf link

Derrida: "Pharmacia" from *Dissemination* pdf link

### 9/15

Woolf: “From A Room of One’s Own” pdf link

Sedgwick: "Introduction: Axiomatic" from *Epistemology of the Closet* pdf link

Said: “From Orientalism” pdf link

### 9/22

Foucault: "The Subject and Power" web link

Deleuze & Guattari: Translator's Foreword & “Introduction: Rhizome” from *A Thousand Plateaus* pdf link

Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of It's Technological Reproducibility,” sections 1-12, 19 web link

### 9/29 Classical Poetics & Criticism

Begin Individual Wiki Leading

Horace: “Ars Poetica" web link

de Pizan: “Christine’s Reaction to Jean de Montreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose” pdf link

de Lorris & de Meun, “From The Roman de la Rose” pdf link

Kant, "Art, Beauty, and Genius," from *The Critique of Judgement* (sections 43 - 49) web link

Friday, October 2 - DUE: AE1

### 10/6 Marxisms

Gramsci: "The Intellectuals," part 1: “The Formation of Intellectuals” from *The Prison Notebooks* web link

Althusser: “From Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” web link

Luxemburg, "The Problem of Dictatorship" from *The Russian Revolution* web link

### 10/13 Psychoanalysis

Lacan: "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience," from *Ecrits* pdf link

~~Kristeva~~~~: “From Revolution in Poetic Language”~~

Kaplan: "Why Trauma Now?," part 1: Freud and Trauma Studies, from *Trauma Culture*" pages 24 - 32 library database link

### 10/20 Formalisms & (post)structuralism

Wimsatt & Beardsley: "The Intentional Fallacy" web link

Best & Marcus: "from Surface Reading: An Introduction" library database link

bell hooks: "Postmodern Blackness" web link

### 10/27 Feminisms, Gender & Sexuality

Gilbert & Gubar: "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship," from *The Madwoman in the Attic* pages 45 - 59 web link

Crenshaw: "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex" pdf link

Berlant & Warner: "Sex in Public" library database link

### 11/10 Post-colonialism & (Critical) Race

Fanon: "Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom" from *The Wretched of the Earth* pages 236 - 248 web link

Tuck & Yang: "Decolonization is not a metaphor" library database link

Mbembe: "Necropolitics" library database link

### 11/17 Posthumanisms

Haraway: "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," from *Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature* web link

Morton: "Introduction: Critical Thinking," from *The Ecological Thought* pdf link

Wolfe: “Human, All Too Human” pdf link

### 12/1 Media, Data, & Digital Humanities

(Readings this week are recommended, but not required. Class zoom at the usual time will be on open office hours.)

Hayles: "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine" web link

Nelson: "Afro-Futurism: Past-Future Visions" web link

D'Ignazio & Klein, "Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism," from *Data Feminism* web link

Friday, 12/4 - DUE: AE 2

### 12/8 Reading Week

Class Zoom will be open office hours for conferences on AE revisions, Analytical Reflection Drafting, Conclude Wiki work

### 12/14 - 18 Finals Week

DUE: Analytical Reflection Essay assignment link (due via email by 11:59pm on Friday, 12/18)