| New Criticism and American Reader Response Criticism |
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Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
 Brooks, Cleanth. "Keats's Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes." In The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1975.
Wimsatt, W. K, and Monroe C. Beardsley. "The Intentional Fallacy." In The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. University of Kentucky Press, 1967.
———. "The Affective Fallacy." In The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. University of Kentucky Press, 1967.
Potter, Lois. "Lawrence of Virtuous Father" and "Avenge O Lord". In A Preface to Milton. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 9781138835870. [Preview with Google Books]
Fish, Stanley. "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics." In Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 22–37. ISBN: 9780674467255. [Preview with Google Books]
———. "Interpreting the Variorum." Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 148–73. ISBN: 9780674467255. [Preview with Google Books]
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| Structuralism |
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Saussure, Ferdinand De. Course in General Linguistics. Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780231157278. [Preview with Google Books]
Brémond, Claude. "Morphology of the French Folktale." Semiotica 2, no. 3 (1970): 247–76.
The Brothers Grimm. "Rapunzel."
Greimas, A. J., and F. Rastier. "The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints." Yale French Studies, no. 41 (1968): 86–105.
Required Reading: pp 86–95. Remainder of article is optional.
Notes 4 (PDF)
Overview of key points of Saussure
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| Structuralism (cont.) |
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Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Structural Study of Myth." In Structural Anthropology Vol. 2. University of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780226474915.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781500376765.
Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?" In The Foucault Reader. Vintage Books, 2010.
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| Deconstruction |
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Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." In Writing and Difference. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255370.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. Elementary Structures of Kinship. Beacon Press, 1971, pp. 3–12, 23–25, and 29–33. ISBN: 9780807046692.
———. "The Writing Lesson." In Tristes Tropiques. Modern Library, 1997. ISBN: 9780679602460.
Notes 5 (PDF)
Notes on extract from "Elementary Structures"
Notes 6 (PDF)
Notes on Structure, Sign and Play
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| Deconstruction (cont.) |
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Derrida, Jaques. "Signature, Event, Context." In Limited Inc. Northwestern University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780810107878. [Preview with Google Books]
Austin, John Langshaw. Lecture 1 in How To Do Things With Words. Harvard University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780674411524. [Preview with Google Books]
Dinesen, Isak. "The Blank Page." In Last Tales. Penguin Books Limited, 2001. ISBN: 9780141184951.
Optional Readings
Johnson, Barbara. "Nothing Fails Like Success." In A World of Difference. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780801837456. [Preview with Google Books]
Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism. Cornell University Press, 2008, pp. 110–25 and 131–34. ISBN: 9780801474057.
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| Psychoanalysis: Freud |
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Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN: 9781506138855. [Preview with Google Books]
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories. Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. vii–xv and 3–19. ISBN: 9780199538843.
Lacan, Jacques. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience." Ecrits, A Selection (1949): 1–7.
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| Psychoanalysis and Lacan |
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Zizek, Slavoj. Chapter 1 in Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415772594. [Preview with Google Books]
Chaplin, Charlie. "City Lights."
Poe Edgar Allen. "The Purloined Letter." 1845.
Lacan, Jacques. "The Seminar on The Purloined Letter." Yale French Studies 48 (1972): 39–72.
Optional Reading
Johnson, Barbara. "The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida." Yale French Studies, no. 55/56 (1977): 457-505.
Notes 9 (PDF)
Notes on Zizek's graphs
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| Psychoanalysis and Lacan (cont.) |
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Zizek, Slavoj. Chapter 3 in The Sublime Object of Ideology. 2nd ed. Verso, 2009. ISBN: 9781844673001. [Preview with Google Books]
Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Color, 129 min. 1958.
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| Michel Foucault |
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Foucault, Michel. Parts 3 and 4 in Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 4th ed. Vintage Books, 2007, pp. 135–95. ISBN: 9780679752554.
Davidson, Arnold I. "Foucault Revolutionizes History." In Foucault and His Interlocutors. University of Chicago Press Journals, 1998. ISBN: 9780226137148.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Tribeca Books, 2013. ISBN: 9781936594191. [Preview with Google Books]
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| Michel Foucault (cont.) |
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Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698. |
| Continuation of Earlier Material |
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| Latour and Kittler |
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Latour, Bruno. Pandora's Hope: An Essay on the Reality of Science Studies. Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 113–44. ISBN: 9780674653368.
Kittler, Friedrich A. "The Mother's Mouth." Discourse Networks, 1800 / 1900. Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780804720991.
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