MSt Core Course: Key Questions in Critical Thought Literature, Politics, and Education Core Reading: Jacques Derrida, ‘This Strange Institution Called Literature’, in Derek Attridge (ed), Acts of Literature (London: Routledge, 1992) Christopher Fynsk, ‘Part II’, in The Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities (Minneapolis: Univeristy of Minnesota Press, 2004). Jacques Rancière, ‘The Politics of Literature’, in The Politics of Literature (Cambridge: Polity, 2011) Jacques Rancière, ‘An Intellectual Adventure’, in The Ignorant Schoolmaster (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991). Martha C. Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (chapts. 4 & 6), (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010). Further Reading: Jean-Paul Sartre, What is Literature? (London: Routledge, 2001) Nicholas Harrison (ed.), The Idea of the Literary, Paragraph 28.2 (2005) Catherine Belsey, The Future of Criticism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011) Marc Augé, The Future (in particular chapts. 7-8), (London: Verso, 2014). Alfred North Whitehead, ‘Universities and their Function’, in The Aims of Education and other essays (New York: Macmillan, 1957). Gender and Sexuality Core Reading: Judith Butler, ‘Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy’ in Undoing Gender, (London: Routledge, 2004) Lee Edelman, No Future, please read ‘The Future is Kid Stuff’ (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘Queer and Now’ in Tendencies, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993)
Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2009) Fredric Jameson, Masao Miyoshi, The Cultures of Globalization (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998) Amitava Kumar (ed.), World Bank Literature (Minneapolis, Minn.: U of Minnesota Press, 1996) Robert Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001) Affects and Cognitiion Core Reading: Terence Cave, Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Read chapters 1 and 2. Patrick Colm Hogan, Cognitive Science, Literature and the Arts (London: Routledge, 2003). Read chapters 5 and 7. Brian Massumi, ‘The Autonomy of Affect’, in Parables for the Virtual (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002). Steven Shaviro, ‘1: Introduction’ ‘2: Corporate Cannibal’, in Post-Cinematic Affect (Winchester: Zero Books, 2010). Raymond Williams, ‘Structures of Feeling’, in Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977). Further Reading Jonathan Flatley, ‘Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling’, in Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). Brian Massumi, ‘Of microperception an micropolitics’ in Politics of Affect (London: Polity, 2015) Ruth Leys, ‘The Turn to Affect: A Critique’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2011), pp. 434-72 Sianne Ngai, ‘Introduction’ in Ugly Feelings (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). Melissa Gregg & Gregory J. Seigworth (eds.), The Affect Theory Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010). Lars Bernaerts and others, ‘Cognitive Narrative Studies: Themes and Variations’, in Bernaerts and others (eds), Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013).