Readings
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Here are some of the required readings.
Works marked with a * may be in short supply or simply absent from the book store.not necessarily in order...yet.
Stories & Texts for Nothing, Samuel Beckett —for Week One
Useful Knowledge, Gertrude Stein *—for Week Two
The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes
Point & Line, Thalia Field *
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
Literary Theory, An Introduction, Terry Eagleton—read the Afterword Week One (by Thursday)
This list of readings will be supplemented by individual student research, a few additional texts that we'll be selecting, and numerous hand-outs and on-line files, web-journals, short works of poetry and prose, etc.
Excerpts will include work by these and others:
Derrida, Adorno, Kristeva, Sontag, Cixous, Foucault, Barthes, Blanchot, Jabes, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche....We will be strategizing with you the best way to provide these texts. We will provide photocopies of some things, put others on hold for your to copy yourselves, as needed, and scan other materials to pdf for the website. Especially for the scanning, we may ask for your assistance in preparing documents.
We welcome student input on readings, and encourage you to develop, within your smaller groups, lines of investigation and research that supplement our selections. The website and the program wiki we hope to use as effective "clearing houses" for this exchange of resources and ideas.
We encourage you to actively use JSTOR, Summit, and other web sources.