HANDOUTS FOR THE COURSE

I don't think it's possible to have a good discussion without first having set a clear agenda, so I give my students a lot of handouts. Handouts for this class usually include dates, bits of background information, study questions, and possible discussion topics.

• Handout on Marx--excerpts from Contribution to the Critique . . . and The German Ideology
  
• Handout on Freud--selections from The Interpretation of Dreams
  
• Handout on Nietzsche--selections from "On Truth and Lie . . . " and Twilight of the Idols
  
• Handout on Saussure and Levi-Strauss --excerpts from Course in General Linguistics; "Structural Study of Myth"

• Reader's Guide to "Plato's Pharmacy"--A detailed, section-by-section guide to one of Derrida's most famous essays
  
• Handout on Derrida--A timeline for Derrida and some questions on Plato's Phaedrus.
  
• Handout on "applied" deconstruction--readings from J. Hillis Miller and Joan W. Scott
  

• Handout on Foucault--"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"
  
• Reader's guide to "What is an Author?"--Where are the founders of discursivity? Ay, where are they?
  
• Handout on Foucault--"What is an Author?"
  
• Handout on Foucault--Discipline and Punish
  
• Handout on Foucault--History of Sexuality, Volume I
  

• Handout on Bakhtin--"Critique of Saussurean Linguistics," "Social Heteroglossia," etc.
  
• Handout on Bakhtin--selections from Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and "Discourse in the Novel"
  
• Handout on Bakthin--selections from Rabelais and His World
  

• Handout on Postmodernism--Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jurgen Habermas
  
• Handout on Postmodernism--Fredric Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," from Postmodernism
  
• Handout on Postcolonial Studies--Gayatri Spivak, James Clifford, K. Anthony Appiah
  

• Handout on Queer Theory--Jonathan Dollimore, Judith Butler
  
• Handout on Queer Theory--Eve Sedgwick, "Introduction: Axiomatic," from Epistemology of the Closet
  
• Handout on Queer Theory--Marjorie Garber, excerpts from Vice Versa
  

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

• Handout on Cultural Studies--Michael Berube, John Fiske, Stuart Hall
  
• Handout on Cultural Studies--Janice Radway, Constance Penley, 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