WEEK ONE: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY, AND A LITTLE BIT OF MARX
Wednesday January 8
- Sven Birkerts, "'The Fate of the Book,'" Tolstoy's Dictaphone, ed.
Sven Birkerts (St. Paul: Graywolf, 1996) (on reserve)
- George P. Landow, "Twenty Minutes Into the Future," The Future of the
Book, ed. Geoffrey Nunberg (Berkeley: U of California P, 1996) (on
reserve)
- Umberto Eco, "Afterword," The Future of the Book (on reserve)
Friday, January 10
- Karl Marx, excerpt from Contribution to the Critique of Political
Economy,in Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, ed. Lewis
S. Feuer (New York: Anchor, 1959): 42-6. (on reserve)
- Karl Marx, excerpt from The German Ideology, in Basic Writings on
Politics and Philosophy: 246-61. (on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here
.
- For students' responses to these readings, click
here.
WEEK TWO: PRECURSORS AND GRANDADDIES -- FREUD, NIETZSCHE, AND SAUSSURE
Monday, January 13
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, ed. and trans. James
Strachey (New York: Avon, 1965): Chapter VI ("The Dream Work"), sections A-C.
(on reserve)
- For a handout on this reading, click here
.
- For students' responses to this reading, click
here.
Wednesday, January 15
- Friedrich Nietzsche, excerpt from "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense,"
The Portable Nietzsche, ed. Walter Kaufmann (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1954): 42-7. (on reserve)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, excerpts from The Twilight of the Idols ("The
Problem of Socrates," "'Reason' in Philosophy," and "How the 'True World'
Finally Became a Fable"), The Portable Nietzsche: 473-86. (on
reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click
here.
- For students' responses to these readings, click
here.
Friday, January 17
- Ferdinand de Saussure, excerpt from Course in General Linguistics, in
Critical Theory Since 1965, ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle
(Tallahassee: U of Florida P, 1986): 646-57. (on reserve)
- Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myth," in Critical Theory
Since 1965: 809-23. (on reserve)
- Tzvetan Todorov, "Structural Analysis of Narrative," in Contemporary
Literary Criticism, ed. Robert Con Davis (New York: Longman): 323-9.
(on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click
here.
WHAT NEXT?
revised October 1, 1997
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