Class Id: 8732
Days: Th
Start Time: 10:30 AM
End Time: 01:30 PM
Building: BURRH
Room: 216
Course Id: 3859
Departments and Numbers: COM 568, ENG 568
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Title: Criticism and Theory: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Description: A broad overview of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Starting with some foundational texts (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche), course is structured around three inter-linked analytics to read across diverse interventions in critical theory: Structure (Saussure, Althusser, Marx, Derrida, Foucault), Subjectivity (Freud, Lacan, Butler, Fanon, Spivak, Bourdieu), and the twin problematics of Aesthetics/Politics (Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Said, Buck-Morss). Among the issues addressed are language and authorship, ideology and the state, sexuality and performance, sovereignty and power.
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Professors: Zahid R. Chaudhary
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