English 340 - Critical Theory:Discourses of the Other

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Colgate University

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E. Sun Introduction to the theoretical study of literature with emphasis on psychoanalytic and feminist approaches. This course surveys how thinkers working in these two overlapping critical traditions have brought the notions of the unconscious and sexual difference to bear on topics ranging from gender and sexuality to ideology, politics, and ethics. Through the frequent pairing of literary and theoretical texts, this course examines how theoretical concepts may derive from literary and rhetorical structures and, in turn, how literary texts may themselves articulate and complicate theoretical models of truth and knowledge. Readings include Freud, Hoffmann, Lacan, Althusser, Poe, Austin, Kafka, Felman, Butler, Kristeva, James, Blanchot, and Carruth. (Post-1800 course.)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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