Week one: Introductions, elaborations, and a bit of Marx

• Handout on Berube, Fish, and Scholes
• Handout on Marx, excerpts from Contribution to the Critique and German Ideology

Week two: Freud, Nietzsche, structuralism

• Handout on Freud, Interpretation of Dreams
• Handout on Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie" and Twilight of the Idols
• Handout on Saussure and Levi-Strauss, with links to extra pages on Levi-Strauss, Oedipus, and the Zuni

Week three: Plato and Derrida

• Handout on Plato, Phaedrus
• "Reader's guide to Plato's Pharmacy", my running commentary on (and summary of) Derrida's essay
• Handout on Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy," pp. 84-117

Week four: Foucault

• Handout on Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" and "Truth and Power
• Handout on Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume One, I-III
• Handout on Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume One, IV-V

Week five: Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle

• Handout on Bakhtin, writings on language and linguistics
• Handout on Bakhtin, writings on the novel
• Handout on Bakhtin, writings on Rabelais and carnival

Week six: Feminisms

• Handout on Engels, Nietzsche, and Freud; the big boys talk about women
• Handout on Kolodny, Robinson, Cixous and Irigary; American and French feminisms
• Handout on Rubin and Mohanty; feminist challenges to feminism

Week seven: Queer theory

• Handout on Judith Butler; "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" and Gender Trouble
• Handout on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; "Axiomatic," from Epistemology of the Closet
• Handout on Essex Hemphill, Ann Pelligrini, and Susan Gubar; Elaborations of (and responses to) queer theory

Week eight: Race

• Handout on Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West; "'Race, Writing, and the Difference It Makes," etc.
• Handout on bell hooks and Michele Wallace; "Postmodern Blackness," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," etc.
• Handout on Richard Dyer and Ann duCille

  Week nine: Postcolonial theory

  • Handout on Salman Rushdie and Gayatri Spivak, "The Courter" and "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
  • Handout on Edward Said, from Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism
  • Handout on Homi Bhabha, "Signs Taken for Wonders," "How Newness Enters the World"

  Week ten: Cultural Studies

  • Handout on Michael Berube, Laura Kipnis, and Constance Penley, "Cult Studs Fights the Power," Hustler, and Star Trek
  • Handout on Bernard Welt and Lauren Berlant, thoughts on The Simpsons

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  revised May 28, 1999
  mail to Tim Spurgin