RESPONSES FROM STUDENTS

These responses are taken from reading notes submitted by students. The notes are usually composed before we've discussed a reading, and they often reflect students' desire to connect readings to materials they've encountered in other classes and contexts: if you click on some of the links on this page, you'll see students link our readings to issues in music history and music theory, contemporary art, and feminist politics. The results are always interesting, and they provide a good record of how some very bright people have responded to very challenging materials. Here, as before, I must acknowledge Nina Dorrance, who gave me the idea and the format for these reading notes.

• Responses to Marx--excerpts from The German Ideology
  
• Responses to Freud--selections from The Interpretation of Dreams
  
• Responses to Nietzsche--selections from Twilight of the Idols
  

• Responses to Derrida--"Plato's Pharmacy," 61-84
  
• Responses to Derrida--"Plato's Pharmacy," 85-119
  
• Responses to Derrida--"Plato's Pharmacy," 120-71
  
• Responses to "applied" deconstruction--readings from J. Hillis Miller and Joan W. Scott
  

• Responses to Foucualt--"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"
  
• Responses to Foucault--Discipline and Punish
  
• Responses to Foucault--History of Sexuality
  

• Responses to Bakhtin--selections from Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and Rabelais and His World
  

• Responses to readings on postmodernism-- Jurgen Habermas and Fredric Jameson
  

• Responses to Queer Theory--Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination"
  
• Responses to Queer Theory--Eve Sedgwick, "Introduction: Axiomatic," from Epistemology of the Closet
  
• Responses to Queer Theory--Marjorie Garber, excerpts from Vice Versa
  

• Responses to African-American studies-- Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West
  
• Responses to African-American studies--Houston Baker on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
  
• Responses to African-American studies--bell hooks, Barbara Chrisitian, and Patricia Williams
  

• Responses to Cultural Studies--Michael Berube, John Fiske, and Stuart Hall
  
• Responses to Cultural Studies--Janice Radway, Constance Penley, and Laura Kipnis
  

WHAT NEXT?

• Homepage for English 60A
  
• Overview of the entire ten-week syllabus
  
• Handouts for the course
  
• Students' responses to readings from the course