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)
  

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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)

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• 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)

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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)

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WHAT NEXT?

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