Week 14 28 April
Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language
Focus on "Practice" (195-234)
Williams, Organization (206-234)
Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language
Focus on "The Semiotic and the Symbolic" (21-106)
Williams, Reproduction (181-205)
Bakhtin / Medvedev, The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship
Focus on chapters four through six (54-126), eight and nine (145-174)
Williams, Forms (148-180)
Recommended (handout): Leon Trotsky, "The Formalist School," Literature and Revolution (1924)
Matejka & Pomorska, Readings in Russian Poetics
Tomasevskij, Literature and Biography (47-55)
Ejxenbaum, Literary Environment (56-65)
Tynjanov, On Literary Evolution (66-78)
Propp, Fairy Tale Transformations (94-114)
Baxtin, Discourse Typology in Prose (176-196)
Williams, Identifications (119-147)
Note: Final project abstracts should be ready for presentation in class tonight.
Matejka & Pomorska, Readings in Russian Poetics
Brik, Contributions to the Study of Verse Language (117-125)
Tynjanov, Rhythm as the Constructive Factor of Verse (126-)
Tynjanov, The Meaning of the Word in Verse (136-147)
Williams, Means of Production (87-118)
Jakobson, Language in Literature
Baudelaire's 'Les Chats' (180-197)
Shakespeare's Verbal Art... (198-215)
Yeats's 'Sorrow of Love' through the Years (216-244)
On the Verbal Art of William Blake... (479-503)
Williams, Formations (57-86)
Jakobson, Language in Literature
On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets (273-300)
On Realism in Art (19-27)
Futurism (28-33)
Dada (34-40)
The Dominant (41-46)
Problems in the Study of Language and Literature (47-49)
Language in Operation (50-61)
Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbance (95-114)
Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry (121-144)
What Is Poetry (368-378)
Williams, The Sociology of Culture
Towards a Sociology of Culture (9-32)
Institutions (33-56)
>>SPRING BREAK<<
Lemon &
Reis, Russian Formalism
Bourdieu,
"The Market for Symbolic Goods" (141-173)
Gadamer,
Truth & Method: "Play as the clue to ontological explanation"
(101-133); "The elevation of the historicity of understanding...."
(265-306); "The ontological shift of hermeneutics guided by language"
(381-491)
Bourdieu,
"The Emergence of a Dualist Structure" (113-140)
Freud, "The
Dream-Work," chapter VI, sections A-D, H-I (311-385, 497-546); click here
for reading guide
Lacan, "The
Mirror Stage" (h.o.; summary here)
and "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious" (h.o. 138-168)
Bourdieu,
"The Conquest of Autonomy" (47-112)
Recommended: Lacan, two seminars on "The Dream of Irma's Injection"
(h.o.)
Freud, "The
Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream," Interpretation
of Dreams 128-54
Saussure,
Course in General Linguistics 1-22, 65-100, 102-134 [88pp]
Bourdieu,
"The Author's Point of View," Rules of Art 214-277
Saussure,
Course in General Linguistics 1-22, 65-100, 102-134 [88pp]
Bourdieu,
"Questions of Method," Rules of Art 177-213 [36pp]
Brooks,
"Aesthetics and Ideology: What Happened to Poetics" (handout)
Perloff,
"In Defense of Poetry" link here
Todorov,
Introduction to Poetics
Bourdieu,
"The Field of Cultural Production" (handout)
Jakobson,
"Linguistics and Poetics" (in Language in Literature)
Presentations on Todorov by Justin Andrews, Jason Morse, Rachel Lee, Mike Roberson,
and Sarah Ruddy.
Aristotle, Poetics