Theory Reading Group
In theory, you have read them all.
In practice, here is an opportunity to meet regularly and discuss some key texts of 20th and 21st century literary criticism.
Open to students of any doctoral programs at the Faculty of Humanities.
We meet in Rm 339, building R.
Organized by Eszter Szép, Dorottya Jászai and Miklós Mikecz. Ideas, suggestions welcome.
Info: eszterszep AT gmail DOT com
Come along!
For the planned syllabus,
For the planned syllabus,
9 May 2 pm
(1) Slavoj Žižek and Christopher Hanlon, “Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek”
Source: New Literary History, Vol. 32, No. 1, Views and Interviews (Winter, 2001), pp. 1-21
(2) Slavoj Žižek, “Looking Awry”
Source: October, Vol. 50 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 30-55
30 May 2pm
Jacques Derrida, “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression”
Source: Diacritics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 9-63
6 June 2pm
(1) Umberto Eco, “Innovation and Repetition: Between Modern and Post-Modern Aesthetics”
Source: Daedalus, Vol. 114, No. 4, The Moving Image (Fall, 1985), pp. 161-184
(2) Umberto Eco, “The Theory of Signs and the Role of the Reader”
Source: The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring,1981), pp. 35-45)
13 June
(1) Michel Foucault, “The Subject and Power”
Source: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 777-795
(2) Michel Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge – excerpt TBA
20 June
(1) Georges Bataille, “The Psychological structure of fascism”
Source: New German Critique, No. 16 (Winter, 1979), pp. 64-87
(2) Georges Bataille - TBA
27 June
Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,”
Source: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 149-181
