Lit204 lecture-1-wk-one(2010)

Lit 204: Criticism & Literary Theory Brendan Stone [email_address]

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The basics For an entertaining and polemical intro to ‘theory’, try this book: Catherine Belsey, Critical Practice

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[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – ‘common’ ‘sense’ Julian Bagginini, Bad Moves: Appealing to common-sense http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/badmoves.php

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – ‘common’ ‘sense’ Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Lawrence & Wishart, 1971), pp. 324 & 325-6.

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[object Object],Humanism, literature, & common sense Mary Klages, ‘Humanism and Literary Theory’ < http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/humanism.html >

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – places to start Terry Eagleton, The Significance of Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), p. 34.

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – places to start Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and Donald Morton, Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism (New York: Guilford Press, 1994), p. 31.

[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – places to start Gerald Graff, ‘Taking Cover in Coverage’, in Norton , p. 2060.

[object Object],Doing Theory – places to start Terry Eagleton, ‘The Rise of English’, Norton , p. 2243. Literature cannot escape from class power structures that shape our every day life . Here a writer has no choice… his work reflects one or more aspects of the intense economic, political… struggle in a society. What he or she cannot do is to remain neutral. Every writer is a writer in politics. The only question is whose politics? Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Writers in Politics , (Heinemann, 1997), p. xvi.

Theory on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW1cwGr9e_c

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[object Object],Doing Theory perspectives disorientation challenge questions difference subversion change argument politics radicalism creativity

[object Object],Doing Theory disability marxisms feminisms ‘ men’ ‘ women’ ‘ race’ deconstruction queer violence sex bodies writing text the canon madness (un)reason ‘ reality’ psyche dreams class culture technology war

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – self/subject

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Doing Theory – self/subject 'Anti-humanism‘.....

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