SPRING 2000
This information effective for Spring 2000.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Instructor: R. Terdiman
This course will consider (in English translation) a series of works by French authors who form a tradition of "philosophical" writing in France. We will read Montaigne (The Essays); Rousseau (The Confessions); Diderot (Rameauís Nephew, D'Alembert's Dream); and Sade (Philosophy in the Bedroom, Justine). These writers raised the "big questions" about life and love, freedom and servitude, knowledge and action, individuals and society. They and their questions continue to influence our thought and writing today. The course will be combined lecture and discussion. There will be a combination of papers and examinations. Taught in English, readings in English.
Mondays 7-10 pm
Stevenson 151
Freccero
This graduate seminar focuses on the major trends in current feminist and queer theories as they relate to literary theory and criticism. Among the trends to be surveyed are: marxist feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, postcolonial feminism, women of color feminism, postructuralist feminism, critical race feminism, queer theory and critiques of power/knowledge. There will be photocopied readings for each class. Students will be expected to lead discussions/present position papers based on the reading and eventually apply feminist theory/criticism to a text of their choice.
Required:
1) Robyn Warhol and Diane Herndl, eds., Feminisms: An Anthology
of Literary Theory and Criticism
2) Differences, vol 6: 2 and 3 (summer-fall 1994), special issue:
More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory
3) Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter (NY: Routledge, 1993);
0-415-90366-1
4) Mohanty, Russo, Torres, eds., Third World Women and the Politics
of Feminism (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1991);
0-253-33873-5
5) Judith Butler & Joan Scott, eds., Feminists Theorize the
Political (NY: Routledge, 1992); 0-415-90274-6
6) Linda Kauffman, ed., American Feminist Thought at Century's End
(Cambridge, Ma; Blackwell, 1993); 1-55786-347-4
7) Marianne Hirsch & Evelyn Fox Keller, eds., Conflicts in
Feminism (NY: Routledge, 1990); 0-415-90178-2
8) Gayatri Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine
9) Hansen and Philipson, eds., Women, Class, and the Feminist
Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader
Recommended
1) Jane Gallop, Around 1981
2) Jane Gallop, The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and
Psychoanalysis
3) P. Adams and E. Cowie, eds., The Woman in Question
4) D. Stanton, ed., Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to
AIDS
5) Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender
6) Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love
7) A. K. Wing, ed., Critical Race Feminism: A Reader
8) Elaine Showalter,ed., Speaking of Gender (NY: Routledge,
1989)
8) Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
9) Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years
Abelove et al, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader