CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY

MA IN CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY

MODULE GUIDE

2013-14 Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory Cardiff University John Percival Building Colum Drive CARDIFF CF10 3EU Email: encap-pg@cardiff.ac.uk Tel: +44 2920 874722 http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/cct/index.html If you need a copy of this document in large type or on cream paper, please contact the Centre office

MA in Critical and Cultural Theory SET601 - Critical and Cultural Theory I Core Module, Autumn 2013 Module Convener: Dr Laurent Milesi (Milesi@cf.ac.uk)

Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment:

One 2-hour weekly seminar One essay of 4,000 words

This is a required course for the MA in Critical and Cultural Theory. It serves as both an introduction to the program itself and more generally as an introduction to the field of critical and cultural theory. It takes a broad view, and gives equal weight to both the critical and cultural dimensions of the field. Its purpose is threefold: firstly, to familiarise students with some of the key issues in the field; secondly, to promote the understanding of those theories, such as psychoanalysis and deconstruction, which have become touchstones in the field; and thirdly, to experiment critically with the application of theory for analytic work in the field of critical and cultural theory. It is impossible to cover in a single course all the necessary background for a field as broad as critical and cultural theory. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you take the time to read general introductions to the field, and as your interest dictates introductions to specific authors. Eagletons Literary Theory (Blackwell, 1983) is an excellent place to start, but also useful are the following: Belsey, Critical Practice (Routledge, 1980), Iser, How to do Theory (Blackwell, 2006), Culler, The Literary in Theory (Stanford UP, 2007), as well as Smith, Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2009), and Waugh Literary Theory and Criticism (OUP, 2006). It is also strongly recommended that you purchase yourself a good glossary of terms such as The Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (OUP, 2010) or The Dictionary of Critical Theory (Penguin, 2001). How the module will be delivered The module is taught in a weekly 2 hour seminar for 10 weeks. The sessions comprise class discussion, and there may be the opportunity for student presentations. Any supplementary material in a permanent form (e.g. a paper handout or downloadable document) will be made available at least 24 hours before the session. Sound, video and other multi-media resources are not used in this module. Seminar and Reading Guide WEEK ONE: Introduction WEEK TWO: Frankfurt School Theodor Adorno, 'Cultural Criticism and Society', in /Prisms/, trans. by Samuel and Shierry Weber (London: Neville Spearman, 1967), pp. 19-34 Theodor Adorno, 'Free Time', trans. by Gordon Finlayson and Nicholas Walker, in /The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture/, ed. by J.M. Bernstein (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 162-170 WEEK THREE: Freud Sigmund Freud, 'Dreams', in /Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis/, trans. by James Strachey, ed. by James Strachey and Angela Richards, /Penguin Freud Library /vol. 1 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991), pp. 111-278 WEEK FOUR: Lacan Jan Miel, 'Jacques Lacan and the Structure of the Unconscious', /Yale French Studies/ 36/37 (1966), 104-111. Jacques Lacan, 'The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious', trans. by Jan Miel, /Yale French Studies/ 36/37 (1966), 112-147. WEEK FIVE: Derrida and Deconstruction I

J. Derrida, 'Diffrance', in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Brighton: Harvester, 1982), pp. 1-27 READING WEEK WEEK SIX: Derrida and Deconstruction II J. Derrida, 'Signature, Event, Context', in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Brighton: Harvester, 1982), pp. 307-330 WEEK SEVEN: Derrida and Deconstruction III J. Hillis Miller, 'The Critic as Host', in Deconstruction and Criticism, ed. Harold Bloom et al. (London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), pp. 217-53 WEEK EIGHT: Badiou Alain Badiou, The Problem of Evil in Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans Peter Hallward, London: Verso 2001, pp 58-89. WEEK NINE: Deleuze Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari Introduction: Rhizome in A Thousand Plateaus, trans Brian Massumi, London: Continuum 2004, pp 3-28 WEEK TEN: Conclusions & Essays Required Texts Freud, S Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Penguin Freud Library vol. 1 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).

MA in Critical and Cultural Theory SET610 Postcolonial/Global Optional Module, Autumn 2013 Module Leader: Dr Radhika Mohanram (MohanramR1@cf.ac.uk)

Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment:

One 2-hour weekly seminar 25% - group presentation 75% - 4000 word essay

Aims This course introduces students to postcolonial and globalization theories used especially in the humanities. In the last 30 years, postcolonial thought has revolutionized our modes of analyses in the academy, especially with its interrogation of the notion of difference, its focus on liberal democracy, and its valorization of resistance; globalization is one of the most central-and controversial-concepts of our time which, with its new technologies and flexible social organisations, has overseen the undermining of state authority and the dwindling of the nation-state. This course will explore the relationship between these two frameworks and will track a variety of themes teased out through the juxtapositioning of the two frameworks. Learning Outcomes Understand the issues around postcolonial thought and globalization important to the humanities. The student will be aware of the nuances and specificities of gender, race and nation that mark these frameworks. How the module will be delivered The module is taught in a weekly 2 hour seminar for 10 weeks. The sessions comprise class discussion, and there may be the opportunity for student presentations. Any supplementary material in a permanent form (e.g. a paper handout or downloadable document) will be made available at least 24 hours before the session. Sound, video and other multi-media resources are not used in this module. Syllabus Weeks 1 and 2: Introduction: Definitions/Relationship between Postcolonial and Globalization Sankaran Krishna "Critiques of Postcolonial Theory" in Globalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-first century. Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005, pp. 105-130. Ali Behdad, "On Globalization Again!" In Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Edited by Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzi, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. 62-79. Edward Said, "Globalizing Literary Study" PMLA, Volume 116, Number 1, 2001: pp 64-68. Masao Miyoshi, "'Globalization,' Culture and the University" in Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi eds The Cultures of Globalization. Duke UP 1998, pp 247-270. Week 3: Nation Arjun Appadurai, from "Here and Now in Modernity at Large. Minn: U of Minnesota Press, 1999. Frantz Fanon, The Pitfalls of National Consciousness and National Culture from Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Week 4-5: World Systems Janet Abu-Lughod, On the Remaking of History or How to Reinvent the Past in Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani Remaking History. California: Bay Press, 1979. Enrique Dussel, Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity in Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi eds The Cultures of Globalization. Duke UP 1998, pp 3-31 Frederic Jameson "Postmodernism or the Logic of Late Capital NLR I/146 July August 1984 pp 53-92

Week 6: Reading Week Week 7: Space Doreen Massey "A Global Sense of Place" From Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press 1994 Saskia Sassen, "Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global" in Public Culture 12.1 (2000) 215-232 Week 8-10: Responses/Engagements with Globalisation Jameson, Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue in Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi eds The Cultures of Globalization. Duke UP 1998, pp 54-80 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Planetarity" in Death of a Discipline. NY: Columbia UP 2005.pp 71-102. Makere Stewart-Harawira "The Spiral Turns" in The New Imperial Order: Indigenous Responses to Globalization, Wellington Huia Publishers and London: Zed Books, 2005, pp 238-253. Sankaran Krishna, "Conclusion: Postcolonialism and Globalization" in Globalization and Postcolonialism Week 11: Summing up Indicative Reading Appiah, Kwame Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: Norton, 2007 Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference. Theory, Culture, Society 7, (1990): 295-310 David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: OUP, 2005 David Harvey The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990 th Frank Lechner and John Boli, eds The Globalization Reader (4 Edition). Willey-Blackwell, 2011 Mike Davis Planet of Slums.London: Verso, 2006. Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present. Harvard UP, 1999 Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press, 1976.

MA in Critical and Cultural Theory SET611 Poststructuralist Theory and the Critique of Modernity Optional Module, Autumn 2013 Module Leader: Aiden Tynan

Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment:

One 2-hour weekly seminar One essay of 4,000 words

Aims This course will pair some key proponents of poststructuralist thought with some of their th most influential 20 century predecessors in order to explore the relevance of their critique of modernity. The twofold aim of this course is to introduce students to some themes informing poststructuralist thought, whilst also providing a platform for future research projects that seek to make use of theory. Special attention will therefore be given to how theory might be put to use to think the current moment. Themes that will be addressed include: Discipline and Control(Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze) Legitimation and Violence(Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Derrida) Humanity and Technology(Martin Heidegger, Bernard Stiegler) Capitalism and Religion(Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida) Learning Outcomes By the end of the module the student will be expected to be able to make independent and critical readings of some key concepts and themes in critical theory. Special attention will be given to the importance of concisely defining the terminology employed in the development of a research project. How the module will be delivered The module will be taught in a weekly 2 hour seminar for ten weeks. Each new theme will be introduced by a lecture providing an overview of the texts to be discussed in the thematic block. Students will be asked to closely read the texts and come to the seminar prepared for detailed discussion. For this reason readings will be accompanied by hand-outs outlining specific questions for discussion. Since one of the aims of the module is to encourage the students to engage in independent research, it will be required that they bring their own list of questions/issues to the seminar informed by relevant secondary material and a critical awareness of the themes under discussion. All supplementary material will be made available at least 24 hours before each session. Syllabus Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (London: Penguin, 1991), pp. 3-31, pp. 195 228. Gilles Deleuze, Control and Becoming and Postscript on Control Societies, in Negotiations, trans. Martin Joughlin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), pp. 169 182. William S. Burroughs, The Limits of Control, in The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (New York: Arcade, 1986), pp. 117-21. Jacques Derrida, The Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority, in Acts of Religion, trans. Mary Quaintance (London, New York: Routledge, 2002), pp.230-299. Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 1-31. Slavoj Zizek, Violence (New York: Picador, 2008), pp. 178 205. Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 335. Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time Vol. 1, trans. Richard Beardsworth and George Collins (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. 82 132.

Walter Benjamin, Fragment 74: Capitalism as Religion, in Eduardo Mendieta, ed. Religion as Critique: The Frankfurt School's Critique of Religion, trans. Chad Kautzer (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 259-262. Jacques Derrida, Faith and Knowledge: the Two Sources of Religion at the Limits of Reason Alone, in Acts of Religion, trans. Samuel Weber (London, New York: Routledge, 2002), pp.42 101. Indicative Reading David Barison and Daniel Ross, The Ister (DVD) (Black Box Sound and Image, 2005). Richard Beardsworth, Derrida and the Political (London, New York: Routledge, 1996). Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 277 300. Geoffrey Bennington, Emergencies, Oxford Literary Review 18 (1996), pp. 175216. Geoffrey Bennington, Interrupting Derrida (London, New York: Routledge, 2000). Ian Buchanan, Deleuzism: A Metacommentary (Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2000). Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson, Barbara Habberjam and Eliot Ross Albert (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989). Jacques Derrida, Eating Well or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida, Who Comes After the Subject?, trans. Peter Connor and Avital Ronell (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 96-119. Jacques Derrida, Nietzsche and the Machine: Interview with Jacques Derrida (interviewer Richard Beardsworth), in Negotiations, trans. Richard Beardsworth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), pp. 215 256. Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Political (New York: Routledge, 2000). Bernard Stiegler, Technics of Decision: An Interview, Angelaki 8, pp. 15167. Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). A list of additional resources will be provided in the introductory class.

MA in Critical and Cultural Theory SET247 Writing and Experimentation Optional Module (cross-listed with the MA in English Literature), Autumn 2013 Josh Robinson Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment: One 2-hour weekly seminar One essay of 4,000 words

Aims This module will investigate some of the interrelationships between writing and experimentation, with particular attention to the consequences and implications of a variety of different ways of thinking about experimental writing, and of some of the concepts with which we do so. We will read a variety of experimental works of literature and art, examining different ways of examining relationships between experimentation and writing, and considering experimentation as an optic through which to consider decisions about writing practice, whether poetic, literary, critical or theoretical. Recurring concerns will include the relationship of critical to literary writing, and the role of experimentation in the production of knowledge in literary and critical studies, and in the humanities more generally. Learning Outcomes On completion of the course students will be able to demonstrate familiarity with a wide range of experimental literary and critical writing, and to situate it within its historical, intellectual, cultural and theoretical context; be able to articulate a range of ways of understanding similarities and differences between literary and scientific experimentation, and the different roles of experimentation in different kinds of intellectual inquiry; be familiar with a range of theories of experimentation and with a range of other critical concepts which closely relate to that of experimentation. How the module will be delivered One two-hour seminar weekly. During the seminar students will occasionally be asked to give Presentations and each week there will be the opportunity for small-group discussion and close analysis. Handouts will be provided where appropriate. Other forms of multimedia, including audio will not be used on this course. Syllabus Content Students will be expected to have read each weeks texts in advance of the seminar. The indicative reading list contains a variety of further readings that students may find interesting and helpful for exploring particular topics in more detail. Further guidance is given in the module guide. Wherever possible critical readings, poems and short stories will be provided in a module reader and/or electronically on Learning Central (LC). There are no preferred editions for this course. Students should contact the module leader as early as possible if they will require readings in an alternative format. Week 1. Introduction: Concepts Joan Retallack, What is Experimental Poetry & Why Do We Need It?, Jacket 32 (2007); Clement Greenberg, Modern and Postmodern, William Dobell Memorial Lecture, Sydney, Australia, Oct 31, 1979 Arts 54, No.6 (February 1980); Robert Sheppard and Scott Thurston, Editorial to the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 1:1. Week 2: Meaning Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1955). Week 3: Where do you begin in this?: Approaches to Difficulty J.H. Prynne, Resistance and Difficulty; George Steiner, On Difficulty; Theodor W. Adorno, Enigmaticalness, Truth Content, Metaphysics and Coherence and Meaning from Aesthetic Theory.

Week 4: Sentence and Syntax Core Reading: Lyn Hejinian, My Life; J.H. Prynne, Word Order. Week 5: Experimentation and Gender Introductions and selected poems from Maggie OSullivan, ed., Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK; Carrie Etter, ed., Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by U.K. Women Poets. Week 6: Plot and Narrative B.S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) Week 7: Genre, Kind Extracts from Ken Friedman, Owen Smith and Lauren Sawchyn, eds, Fluxus Performance Workbook; Antonin Artaud, extracts from On Theatre (Methuen, 1989); Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate (1922-32); Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (1963-67); Karlheinz Stockhausen, From the Seven Days (1968), selected scores by Sylvano Bussotti. Week 8: Scale Selected short stories from Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (2000), selections from The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008) Week 9: Experiment/Essay Theodor W. Adorno, The Essay as Form; John Wilkinson, Cadence; J.H. Prynne, Huts. Week 10: Procedures Georges Perec, extracts from Life. A Users Manual and La disparition, translated by Gilbert Adair as A Void; Peter Manson, extracts from Adjunct; Giles Goodland, extracts from A Spy in the House of Years.

Indicative Reading and Resource List: other experimental (and non-experimental or not self-evidently experimental) works literary antecedents Adorno, Theodor W. , Music and Language: A Fragment, in Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music, translated by Rodney Livingstone (London: Verso, 1992), pp. 1 6. ---, Art and the Arts, in Can One Live after Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader , ed. by Rolf Tiedemann (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 36887. Allen, Graham. Intertextuality (London: Routledge, 2000). Aristotle, Poetics. Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double, trans. by Mary Caroline Richards (New York: Grove, 1958). Barthes, Roland, S/Z, trans. by Richard Miller (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975). Bilton, Alan. An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002). Berger, Arthur Asa, ed. The Postmodern Presence: Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture and Society (London: Routledge, 1997). Bernstein, J.M., Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006). Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, UP, 1984). Brger, Peter, Theory of the Avant-Garde (Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1984). Burke, Ruth E. The Games of Poetics: Ludic Criticism and Postmodern Fiction (New York: Peter Lang, 1994). Caramello, Charles. Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self and Postmodern American Fiction (Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1983). Connor, Steven, Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989). Currie, Mark, ed., Metafiction (New York: Longman, 1995). Edwards, Brian. Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction, Comparative Literature and

Cultural Studies (New York, NY: Garland, 1998). Forrest-Thomson, Veronica, Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1979). Fowler, Alastair, Kinds of Literature (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982). Friedman, Ken, ed., The Fluxus Reader (Chichester: Academy Editions, 1998). Fuller, Steve, Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: The Coming of Science and Technology Studies (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993). Genette, Grard, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, trans. by Jane E. Lewin (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1980). ---, The Architext: An Introduction, trans. by Jane E. Lewin (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992). Haraway, Donna J., Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991). Heidegger, Martin, The Origin of the Work of Art in Off the Beaten Track (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 156. Heise, Ursula K., Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997). Hejinian, Lyn, The Language of Inquiry (Berkeley: U of California P, 2000). Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (London: Routledge, 1988). Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (London: Verso, 1991). Kant, Immanuel, Critique of the Power of Judgement (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000). Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1984). Latour, Bruno, When Things Strike Back, British Journal of Sociology 51:1 (January/March 2000), pp. 10723. Latour, Bruno and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986). Lord, Geoffrey. Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference: A Comparison of Postmodern Fiction in Britain and America, Postmodern Studies: 18 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996). Markey, Constance. Italo Calvino: A Journey toward Postmodernism (Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 1999). Monte, Steven, Difficulty and Modern Poetry, Literature Compass 4:4 (2007), 113357. Motte, Warren, Oulipo: A primer in potential literature (University of Nebraska Press, 1988). Purves, Alan C., ed., The Idea of Difficulty in Literature (New York: SUNY press, 1991). Prynne, J.H., Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words (London: Birkbeck College, 1993). ---, A Letter to Steve McCaffery, The Gig, (2000), 406. Ranciere, Jacques, The Politics of Aesthetics (London: Continuum, 2003). Ron Silliman, The New Sentence (New York: Roof Books, 1987). Slade, Andrew. Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime, Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures: 146 (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2007). Smethurst, Paul. The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction, Postmodern Studies: 30 (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2000). Stevick, Philip. Alternative Pleasures: Postrealist Fiction and the Tradition (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1981). Stoltzfus, Ben. Postmodern Poetics: Nouveau Roman and Innovative Fiction, Occasional Papers in Language, Literature and Linguistics: A35 (Ames: Iowa State Univ., 1987). Varsava, Jerry A. Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction, Mimesis, and the Reader (Tallahassee: Florida State UP, 1990). Waugh, Patricia, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 2003 [1984]). Wilkinson, John, Heigh Ho: A Partial Gloss of Word Order, Glossator 2 (2010), http://solutioperfecta.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/g2-wilkinson.pdf. Worton, Michael and Judith Still, eds., Intertextuality: Theories and Practices (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990).

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MA in Critical and Cultural Theory SET602 - Critical and Cultural Theory II Core Module, Spring 2014 Module Leader: Professor Radhika Mohanram (MohanramR1@cardiff.ac.uk

Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment:

One 2-hour weekly seminar One essay of 4,000 words

Aims This is a required course for the MA in Critical and Cultural Theory. It focuses on questions of subjectivity, discourse, power and the virtual. It serves as an introduction to key ways of theorising these issues and gives equal weight to both the critical and cultural dimensions of the topics. It aims to give students a detailed, complex knowledge and understanding of key theoretical issue in the study of culture, focusing on the Subject, Ideology, discourse, power and history. Learning Outcomes After completing the module students will be familiar with some of the key approaches to questions of subjectivity, discourse, power and the virtual. They will have acquired critical understanding of these theories and how they might be employed in analytic work in critical and cultural theory. How the module will be delivered The module is taught in a weekly 2 hour seminar for 10 weeks. The sessions comprise class discussion, and there may be the opportunity for student presentations. Any supplementary material in a permanent form (e.g. a paper handout or downloadable document) will be made available at least 24 hours before the session. Sound, video and other multi-media resources are not used in this module. Seminar and Reading Guide SEMINAR I: Introduction SEMINAR II: Psychoanalyis and the Subject. Jacques Lacan, 'The Mirror Stage', Ecrits. London: Tavistock, 1977, 3-7. SEMINAR III: Marxism & the Subject. Louis Althusser, 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an investigation)', Lenin and Philosophy. London: New Left Books, 1971, 152-73. SEMINARS IV: Discourse, Power & Subjectivity. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. Volume One. An Introduction. Trans Robert Hurley. London: Penguin, 1979. SEMINAR V: Foucault, Gender and Race Cornel West, 'A Genealogy of Modern Racism', Prophesy Deliverance. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1982, 47-65. Chandra Mohanty, 'Under Western Eyes', Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 51-80. SEMINAR VI: The Author (RM) Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author in Music, Image, Text. London: Fontana, Michel Foucault, What is an Author in Language, Counter Memory, Practice. Ithaca New York: Cornell UP, 113-138. SEMINAR VII: Postcoloniality I David Lloyd, "Race Under Representation" Oxford Literary Review 13. 1-2 (1991): 62-94 SEMINAR VIII: Postcoloniality II Gayatri Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak? Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Eds Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Urbana, IL:University of Illinois P, 1988: 271-313 Homi Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man" in The Location of Culture. London and NY: Routledge, 1994, 85-93 SEMINAR IX: Animality/Technicity Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow), trans/ David Wills, Critical Inquiry, vol. 28 (Winter 2002), 369-417.

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SEMINAR X: Virtuality and the Digital Wojciech Kalaga, The Trouble with the Virtual, Symploke, vol. 11, nos. 1-2: Theory Trouble (2003), 96-103. Slavoj iek, From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality, in Reading Digital Culture, ed. David Trend (Wiley Blackwell, 2001), 17-22.

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MA in Critical & Cultural Theory SET 606 - Derridean Thought: 1990 to the Present Optional Module, Spring 2014 Module Leader: Laurent Milesi (Milesi@cf.ac.uk)

Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment:

One 2-hour weekly seminar One essay of 4,000 words

Aims The aim of this course is to get the student acquainted with a representative range of Derridas most recent writings over the last ten-to-fifteen years, specifically on issues of ethics, nationality, religion, politics and psychoanalysis. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course the student will be expected to be able to relate Derridas thematic concerns of the past decade to those of the more canonical, earlier texts, both in terms of difference and continuity, as well as to develop a close critical reading of his texts or apply them to other writings and problematics by making use of their positions and strategies How the module will be delivered The module is taught in a weekly 2 hour seminar for 10 weeks. The sessions comprise class discussion, and there may be the opportunity for student presentations. Any supplementary material in a permanent form (e.g. a paper handout or downloadable document) will be made available at least 24 hours before the session. Sound, video and other multi-media resources are not used in this module. Syllabus Content Week 1: Introduction: The story so far... Text: discussion of "Letter to a Japanese Friend" (in the Kamuf Reader), with ref. to Geoff Bennington's Jacques Derrida Week 2: The Ethics of the Other (the "gift" revisited) Text: discussion of The Gift of Death Week 3: The arrivant, Death and the End Text: discussion of Aporias Week 4: Politics and the "specter effect" Text: discussion of Specters of Marx Week 5: The Question of Europe Text: discussion of The Other Heading Week 6: Archiving, Memory and Technology Text: discussion of Archive Fever Week 7: The Return of / to Psychoanalysis Text: discussion of Resistances Week 8: Reading Week Week 9: a) Responsibility Text: discussion of "Passions" (in On the Name) b) The (re)call of Religion Text: discussion of "Faith and Knowledge" (in Religion) Week 10: Language and Nationality Text: discussion of Monolingualism of the Other Week 11: "Stop Press" Text: one of Derrida's most recent writings Indicative Reading (Texts by Jacques Derrida) Aporias. Trans. Thomas Dutoit. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Archive Fever. A Freudian Impression. Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 1996.

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Faith and Knowledge, Religion, ed. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo. Cambridge: Polity, 1998, pp. 1-78. Letter to a Japanese Friend, A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds, ed. Peggy KAMUF. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 270-6. Monolingualism of the Other, or The Prosthesis of Origin. Trans. Patrick Mensah. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. On the Name, ed. Thomas Dutoit; trans. David Wills, John P. Leavey, Jr., and Ian McLeod. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. Resistances of Psychoanalysis. Trans. Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne Brault, and Michael Naas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Specters of Marx. The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. Trans. Eggy Kamuf ; intr. Bernd Magnus and Stefphen Cullenberg. New York and London: Routledge, 1994. The Gift of Death. Trans. David Wills. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. The Other Heading: Reflections on today's Europe.Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael B. Naas, intr. Michael B. Naas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

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MA in Critical and Cultural Theory SET607 - Gothic and Gender Optional Module (cross-listed with the MA in English Literature), Spring 2014 Module Leader: TBC Method of Teaching and Learning: Method of Assessment: One 2-hour weekly seminar One essay of 4,000 words

Aims This module will explore the various ways in which women writers have developed and engaged with a literary Gothic aesthetic since its emergence in the eighteenth century. With reference to the genres historical, cultural and theoretical contexts, it will examine how particular manifestations of the Gothic might be understood in relation to wider aesthetic innovations (e.g. Romanticism, Decadence and Modernism). Paying particular attention to questions of gender, sexuality, the erotic and the body, it will examine the relationship between feminist criticism and Gothic fiction, especially as they converge through the category of the female Gothic. While the module will focus primarily on prose fiction, it will also explore some of the conceptual frameworks that have contributed to understandings and formations of the gendered Gothic subject (e.g. Burke on the sublime, Freud on the uncanny, Kristeva on the abject). Learning Outcomes On completion of the module students should be able to demonstrate an in depth critical awareness of the relationship between gender and genre and an understanding of key theoretical approaches to the Gothic. They will be able to develop and sustain coherent and well-researched critical analyses of the texts in oral and written discussion. How the module will be delivered Timetabled sessions include will receive weekly two-hour seminars and will have the opportunity to make presentations and/or lead discussion. Seminars are normally supplemented with handouts with content of a reasonable level of detail. Seminars will provide students with a variety of learning opportunities, including close textual analysis and small group discussion. Syllabus Content The main readings for this module are texts and journal articles. Students should contact the module leader as early as possible if they will require readings in an alternative format. Photocopied extracts from Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful(1757); Ann Radcliffe, On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826); and Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (1919). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oxford: OUP, 2008) Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales (London : Penguin, 2004) Vernon Lee, Hauntings (Dodo Press, 2007) Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (London: Faber and Faber, 2007) Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (London: Penguin, 2009) Angela Carter, Love (London: Vintage, 2011) Sarah Waters, Affinity (London: Virago, 2009) Suggested secondary reading The main readings for this module are texts and journal articles. Students should contact the module leader as early as possible if they will require readings in an alternative format. Photocopied extracts from Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful(1757); Ann Radcliffe, On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826); and Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (1919). Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oxford: OUP, 2008) Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales (London : Penguin, 2004)

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Vernon Lee, Hauntings (Dodo Press, 2007) Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (London: Faber and Faber, 2007) Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (London: Penguin, 2009) Angela Carter, Love (London: Vintage, 2011) Sarah Waters, Affinity (London: Virago, 2009) Indicative Reading and Resource List: Critical introductions and general studies Botting, Fred, Gothic (London: Routledge, 1996) Clery, E.J. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) Clery, E.J., and Robert Miles, eds. Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000) Holland, Norman N., and Leona F. Sherman, Gothic Possibilities, New Literary History, 8.2 (1977), 279-94 Punter, David, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, vol. 2, 2nd ed. (London: Longman, 1996) Smith, Andrew, Gothic Literature, Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 20067) Smith, Andrew, and Jeff Wallace, eds. Gothic Modernisms(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001) Gothic and gender Becker, Susanne, Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999) Brabon, Benjamin A., and Stphanie Genz, eds. Postfeminist Gothic. Special issue of Gothic Studies 9.2 (2007) Castle, Terry, The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995) Cixous, Hlne, Fiction and its Phantoms: A Reading of Freuds Das Heimliche, New Literary History, 7 (1976), 525-48 **Fitzgerald, Lauren, Female Gothic and the Institutionalization of Gothic Studies, Gothic Studies, 6.1 (2004), 8-18 Fleenor, Juliann E., ed. The Female Gothic (Montreal: Eden Press, 1983) Hoeveler, Diane Long, Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Bronts (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1998) Kahane, Claire, The Gothic Mirror, in The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation. ed. Shirley Nelson Garner, Claire Kahane and Madelon Sprengnether (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 334-51 Kelly, Gary, ed., Varieties of Female Gothic, 6 vols (London: Chatto, 2001) Kristeva, Julia, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, 1980, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia UP, 1982) Mass, Michelle A., In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism and the Gothic (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992) Meyers, Helene, FemicidalFears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001) **Moers, Ellen, The Female Gothic, Literary Women, 1976 (London: Doubleday, 1986), pp. 90-110. Palmer, Paulina, Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions (London: Cassell, 1999) Royle, Nicholas, The Uncanny (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003) Showalter, Elaine, Sisters Choice: Tradition and Change in American Womens Writing (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) Smith, Andrew, and Diana Wallace, eds. Female Gothic. Special issue of Gothic Studies 6.1 (2004) Williams, Anne, Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Baldick, Chris. In Frankensteins Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and Nineteenth -Century Writing. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987. Clery, E.J., Womens Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley (Plymouth: Northcote House, 2000) Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press,

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1979) Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters . New York: Methuen, 1988. Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales Reddy, Maureen, Female Sexuality in The Poor Clare: The Demon in the House, Studies in Short Fiction, 21.3 (1984), 259-65 Styler, Rebecca, The problem of Evil in Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales, Gothic Studies, 12.1 (2010), 33-50 Wallace, Diana, Uncanny Stories: the Ghost Story as Female Gothic, Gothic Studies 6. 1 (2004), 57-68 Vernon Lee, Hauntings Cosslett, Tess, Revisiting Fictional Italy, 1887-1908: Vernon Lee, Mary Ward, and E. M. Forster, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 52.3 (2009), 312-28 Leighton, Angela, Ghosts, Aestheticism, and Vernon Lee, Victorian Literature and Culture, (2000), 1-14 Robbins, Ruth, Apparitions can be deceptive: Vernon Lees Androgynous Spectres, in Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century , ed. Robbins, Ruth and Julian Wolfreys (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000), pp. 182-201 Djuna Barnes, Nightwood Blyn, Robin, Nightwoods Freak Dandies: Decadence in the 1930s, Modernism/ Modernity, 15.3 (2008), 503-26 Horner, Avril, A Detour of Filthiness: French Fiction and Djuna Barness Nightwood, in European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange, 1760-1960 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 230-51 de Lauretis, Teresa, Nightwood and the Terror of Uncertain Signs, Critical Inquiry, 34.S2 (2008), 117-29 Tyler-Bennett, Deborah, Thick within Our Hair: Djuna Barness Gothic Lovers, in Gothic Modernisms, ed. Andrew Smith and Jeff Wallace (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 95-110 Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House Castricano, Jodey, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and the Strange Question of Trans-subjectivity, Gothic Studies, 7.1 (2005), 87-101 Parks, John F., Chambers of Yearning: Shirley Jackson's Use of the Gothic, Twentieth Century Literature, 30 (1984), 15-29 Rubenstein, Roberta, House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 15.2 (1996), 309-31 Smith, Andrew, Children of the Night: Shirley Jacksons Domestic Female Gothic, in The Female Gothic: New Directions, ed. Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009), pp. 152-65. Angela Carter, Love Bristow, Joseph, and Trev Lynn Broughton, eds. The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism(Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) Duncker, Patricia, Queer Gothic: Angela Carter and the Lost Narratives of Sexual Subversion, Critical Survey,8.1 (1996), 58-68 Gamble, Sarah, Angela Carter: Writing from the Front Line (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997) Smith, Patricia Juliana, All You Need is Love: Angela Carters Novel of Sixties Sex and Sensibility, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 143 (1994), 24-30 Sarah Waters, Affinity Armitt, Lucie, and Sarah Gamble, The Haunted Geometries of Sarah Waters's Affinity, Textual Practice 20.1 (2006), 141-70 Palmer, Paulina, Lesbian Gothic: Genre, Transformation, Transgression, Gothic Studies 6.1 (2004), 118-30 Kohlke, M.-L., Into History through the Back Door: The Past Historic in Nights at the Circus and Affinity, Women: a Cultural Review, 15.2 (2004), 153-66 Llewellyn, Mark, Queer? I should say it is criminal!: Sarah Waters Affinity (1999), Journal of Gender Studies, 13.3 (2004), 203-214

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