Historical Overview: The Ancients versus the Moderns
Theme 1: Plato and Kant
Tuesday:
Plato’s Republic and Kant’s Critiques from
Hazard Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato (Heinle and Heinle, 1992),
pp. 18-38 and pp. 374-393.
Theme 2: Nietszche
Thursday: Picart, “Nietzsche as Masked Romantic,” Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 55 (1997): 273-292 (On Reserve)
Historical Overview: Modernism, Romanticism, the Enlightenment, Postmodernism
Theme 1: Modernity and the Enlightenment: Gender and Epistemology
Tuesday:
Bacon, The New Organon (excerpted from Picart, An Introduction to Philosophy—On
Reserve) Descartes, The Meditations, : excerpted from Picart, An Introduction
to Philosophy—On Reserve)
Theme 2: Romanticism: Gender and Epistemology
Thursday:
Picart, “Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films,” Pacific
Coast Philology 35 (September 2000): 17-34 (On Reserve) Picart, Resentment
and “the Feminine” in Nietzsche’s Politico-Aesthetics,
Chapters II, III and IV
Dr. Picart's students are invited to Transcendence and Transience, a One woman show featuring mixed media paintings, prints and postcards by Dr. Picart.
The show runs from Jan. 16-30 at Tallahassee Little Theater. See http://english3.fsu.edu/~kpicart/transcendence.htm for more information.
Theme 1: Key Texts in Structuralism 1:
Tuesday: De Saussure, Ferdinand, “Nature of the Linguistic Sign”(1916)
in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 3-16;
Barthes, Roland, “The
Death of the Author” (1968) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory,
pp. 53-59; Althusser, Louis, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” (1970)
in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 61-102 Michel Foucault, “The
Structures of Punishment” (1975), in Latimer, Contemporary Critical
Theory, pp. 103-122
Theme 2: Key Texts in Deconstruction
Thursday:
Heidegger, Martin, “Thinking and Destruktion,” (1927) in Latimer, Contemporary
Critical Theory, pp. 124-134 Bataille, Georges, “The Big Toe” (1929)
and “The Notion of Expenditure,” (1933) in Latimer, Contemporary
Critical Theory, pp. 124-134 Derrida, Jacques, “The End of the Book
and the Beginning of Writing,” (1967) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical
Theory, pp. 165-183 White, Hayden,. “Tropology, Discourse and the Modes
of Human Consciousness (1978) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory,
pp. 206-235. Said, Edward, “Orientalizing the Oriental,” (1978) in
Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 254-277
Dr. Picart's students are invited to Bodyworks: Landscapes of Desire, a One woman show featuring mixed media paintings, prints and postcards by Dr. Picart.
The show runs from Jan. 30-Feb. 10 at Oglesby Gallery on FSU Campus. See http://english3.fsu.edu/~kpicart/landscapesOfDesire.htm for more information.
From February 1-5, Dr. Picart, who is co-organizing the 2006 FSU
Film and Literature Conference, will not be as available as
usual. Go to: http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2006/ for
details. However, classes will go on as usual and alternative
activities have been designed. Graduate students are highly
encouraged to attend the conference, as it is free for FSU students
and faculty, and features some of the best conference papers on the
topic of "Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror" not only nationally
but also internationally. Plenary speakers include: Keith Beauchamp,
Dominick LaCapra, Brian Winston and Janet Walker.
Theme 1: Key Texts in Marxism
Tuesday:
Bakhtin, Mikhail, “Laughter and Freedom,” (1940) in Latimer, Contemporary
Critical Theory, pp. 254-277
Benjamin, Walter, “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai
Leskov,” (1936) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp.
322-346
Adorno, Theodor, “Black as an Ideal,” (1970) and “On the
Concept of Ugliness,” (1970) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory,
pp. 350-354.
Jameson, Fredric, “The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in
the Postmodern Debate,” (1984) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory,
pp. 369-387
Theme 2: Key Texts in Hermeneutics and Reception Theory
Thursday:
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, “Schleiermacher, Hegel and the Hermeneutical Task,” (1960)
in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 386-392.
Hans, Robert Jauss, “History of Art and Pragmatic History,” (1973)
) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 393-432.
Iser, Wolfgang, “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach,” (1972)
) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 433-456
Fish, Stanley, “Demonstration versus Persuasion: Two Models of Critical
Activity,” (1980) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp.
433-456
Draft proposals are due; must have a preliminary book review, and have a clear
set of objectives and a method.
Theme 1: Key Texts in Psychoanalysis and Myth Criticism
Tuesday:
Freud, Sigmund, “The Dream Work,” (1916) and “The Theme of
Three Caskets,” (1913) in in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory,
pp. 476-499
Lacan, Jacques, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the
I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,” (1949) in Latimer, Contemporary
Critical Theory, pp. 500-509.
Girard, Rene, “The Plague in Literature and Myth,” (1974) in
Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 510-531
Bloom, Harold, “Freud and the Sublime: A Catastrophe Theory of Creativity,” (1978)
in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 532-556.
Theme 2: Feminism
Thursday:
Cixous, Helene, “Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays,” (1975)
in Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 433-456
Kristeva, Julia, “Stabat Mater,” (1977) in Latimer, Contemporary
Critical Theory, pp. 579-603.
MacKinnon, Catherine, “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward
Feminist Jurisprudence,” (1983) in Latimer, Contemporary Critical
Theory, pp. 604-632.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, “Feminism and Critical Theory,” in
Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 634-658.
Tuesday March 14:
Becky McLaughlin and Bob Coleman, Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader (Pearson
Longman, 2005), Introduction; Chapter 1, sections on Sartre (19-32), Barthes
(33-37), Culler (51-65); Hayles (66-82)
Week 10B
Thursday March 16:
Becky McLaughlin and Bob Coleman, Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader (Pearson
Longman, 2005), Chapter 2, sections on Derrida (103-125); Rorty (133-145);
Chapter 3, sections on Foucault (162-186) and Jameson (201-214)
Week 11A
Tuesday March 21:
Becky McLaughlin and Bob Coleman, Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader (Pearson
Longman, 2005), Chapter 4, sections on Fanon (265-281), Hall (295-306), Anzaldua
(307-314) and Bhabha (315-331)
Week 11B
Thursday March 23:
Becky McLaughlin and Bob Coleman, Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader (Pearson
Longman, 2005), Chapter 5, sections on Said (370-379), Fish (380), Mouffe (405-417)
Week 12A
Tuesday March 28:
Becky McLaughlin and Bob Coleman, Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader (Pearson
Longman, 2005), Chapter 6, sections on Sontag (426-434), Mulvey (435-440),
Danto (456-468) and Zizek (469-488)
Week 12B
Thursday March 30:
Becky McLaughlin and Bob Coleman, Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader (Pearson
Longman, 2005), Chapter 7, sections on Johnson (496-504), Sedgwick (505-517),
Irigaray (506-538); Chapter 8, sections on Lacan (547-552) and Wittig (553-560).
Theme 1: Scientific Revolutions
Tuesday April 4: Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Third Edition
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), esp. pp. 1-110.
Kuhn, Thomas, “Second Thoughts on Paradigms,” The Essential Tension
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977), pp. 293-319.
Theme 2: Gender and Science
Schiebinger, Londa, Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1993), pp. 1-114.
Haraway, Donna, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism
in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention
of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 149-182.
Week 13B: Applications in Cultural Studies and Art History
Tuesday April 6:
Hooks bell, “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators,” Feminism
and Tradition in Aesthetics, eds. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer
(State College, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 1995), pp. 142-159.
Thursday:
Garrard, Mary D. “Leonardo da Vinci and Creative Female Nature,” Feminism
and Tradition in Aesthetics, eds. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer,
University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995, pp. 326-353.
Thursday April 11:
Sandra Harding, “Why ‘Physics' is a Bad Model for Physics,” Whose
Science? Whose Knowledge? (New York: Cornell University Press, 1988),
pp. 77-102.
Trinh T. Minh-ha, “Outside In Inside Out,” When the Moon Waxes
Red; Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (New York and London:
Routledge, 1991), pp. 65-78.
Week 14B: Applications in Law
Tuesday April 13:
Williams, Patricia J. (1988), ‘On Being the Object of Property,’ Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society 14, pp. 5-24 in Feminist Legal Theory
II, pp. 487-508
Thursday:
Picart, C.J.S., “Rhetorically Constructing and Deconstructing Victimhood
and Agency: The Violence Against Women Act’s Civil Rights Clause,” Rhetoric
and Public Affairs, Volume 6:1 (spring 2003).
