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Course Goals |
This seminar will familiarize you with the major theoretical movements of the twentieth century. We will read and analyze the key theoretical texts by paying attention to their characteristics and significance in their contexts. All students will come to class having read all the texts and they will be assigned particular texts to present and discuss in class. Students will also be asked to apply the theoretical positions to a visual or written text of their choice as part of their grades. |
Prerequisite(s) |
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Corequisite(s) |
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Special Requisite(s) |
During classes all cameras and microphones must be open. |
Instructor(s) |
Professor Işıl Baş |
Course Assistant(s) |
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Schedule |
Thursday (13:00-16:00), 3C0305 |
Office Hour(s) |
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Teaching Methods and Techniques |
Lecture, discussion |
Principle Sources |
Harland, Richard. Literary and Cultural Theory from Plato to Barthes. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Belsey, Catherine. A Future for Criticism. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Course pack including selections from major theorists |
Other Sources |
Belsey, Catherine. A Future for Criticism. Chichester, West-Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Course Schedules |
Week |
Contents |
Learning Methods |
1. Week |
Introduction |
Discussion, presentations |
2. Week |
Plato The Republic Books VII and X
Aristotle Poetics Sections 1-2-3 |
Discussion, presentations |
3. Week |
Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics Chapter 1
Roland Barthes Mythologies “Soap-powders and Detergent”, “Steak and Chips”, “The Brain of Einstein”, “Myth Today” |
Discussion, presentations |
4. Week |
Friedrich Nietzsche “On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense”
“The Birth of Tragedy from the spirit of Music”
Jacques Derrida “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” |
Discussion, presentations |
5. Week |
Michel Foucault
History of Sexuality
PART ONE We "Other Victorians"
PART TWO The Repressive Hypothesis
Chapter 1 The Incitement to Discourse
Chapter 2 The Perverse Implantation
PART THREE Scientia Sexualis
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison “Panopticism" |
Discussion, presentations |
6. Week |
Sigmund Freud The Ego and the Id: Key Passages
The Uncanny Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Jacques Lacan “The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience”
Jane Gallop “Lacan's ‘Mirror Stage’: Where to Begin” |
Discussion, presentations |
7. Week |
Marx “Fetishism of Commodities”, “Estranged Labour”
Louis Althusser “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” |
Discussion, presentations |
8. Week |
Walter Benjamin-“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” |
Discussion, presentations |
9. Week |
Project essay due |
Discussion, presentations |
10. Week |
Edward Said Orientalism “Crisis in Orientalism”
Homi Bhabha “Signs Taken for Wonders” |
Discussion, presentations |
11. Week |
Frantz Fanon “The Negro and Psychopathology”
Meyda Yegenoglu “Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism” |
Discussion, presentations |
12. Week |
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship”
Helene Cixous
“Sorties”
“The Laugh of Medusa” |
Discussion, presentations |
13. Week |
Luce Irigaray This Sex Which is Not One “Chapter 2”
Laura Mulvey “Visual Culture and Narrative Cinema” |
Discussion, presentations |
14. Week |
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Epistemology of The Closet “Introduction: Axiomatic”
Judith Butler Gender Trouble “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” |
Discussion, presentations |
15. Week |
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16. Week |
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17. Week |
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