Selective Readings of Modern and Contemporary Literary Theories:
Gender, Language, Textuality and Space
現當代文學理論選讀；性／別、語言、文本脈絡和空間

1. Structuralism - 4 weeks 1); 2) 3) Roland Barthes 4) Summary and Practice

9/23	Introduction: with 夏宇，A Room of One's Own and "Another Great Day!"	1, 2
9/30	The Structuralist Foundations: F. de Saussure "" (956-77); Levi Strauss "The Structural Study of Myth" (110-18) (handout 1-1)*	失蹤的象、Links: 1(Chinese), 2, 3
10/7	Structuralist Poetics and Structuralist Narratology in brief: Roman Jokobson (1254-1269); T. Todorov (2097-2106)	1, 2 "Sailing to Byzantium" Links: 1, 2, a book
10/14	Theory/Text Intersections: Kristeva "Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science"(handout 2-1)* ; Louis Marin "Disneyland: A Degenerate Utopia" (handout 2-2)* [Roger Hu]	1 Links: end of the page; Marin; Disney Resources;

2. Feminism -- -Gender and Sexuality; * Chinese Bibliography and General Links

10/21	Some American Feminists Gender Positions (American Feminism): Gilbert ad Gubar pp. 2021-2035[Sarita Chuang]; : Gayle Rubin "The Traffic in Women" (handout 1-2)* [Evelyn Sung]	links: 1. Rubin 1; 2 ; G& G constructions of 19th century womanhood
10/28	Feminine Writing: Luce Irigaray(handout 3) [Annabella Huang] and : Julia Kristeva (2165-79)[Anne Chen].
11/4	Postfeminism: Judith Butler (2485-2501)[Monisha Zheng]; Donna Haraway "A Manifesto for Cyborgs"(e-text 2266-2298)	links: Harraway 1 (Chinese), 2. Paris is Burning and Madonna
11/11	Sex and Sexuality: Michel Foucault (1648-1666) from The History of Sexuality; [Amy Yang] Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2432-2445)[Carol Chi]	links; Foucault: 1, 2; Sedgwick 1, 2 1, 2.

3. Poststructuralism -- - Challenging Subjectivity, Meaning and Knowledge

11/18	Author: Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author" (1466-1470)[Alex Lin] and Foucault "What is an Author?" (1622-1636)[Carol Lin]	1
11/25	Writing as Differance: Jacques Derrida (1830-76)[Hazel];
12/2	The 'Critical Difference'" Barbara Johnson on Billy Budd (2316 -2337) Face to Face with Chinese-Canadian Writer Larissa Lai: "Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History and Cyborg Hope"	1
12/9	Simulation: Jean Baudrillard (1729-1741) [Simone Chu]

4. Poststructuralism and Beyond: Textual/Social Space andPolitics of Location

* Handouts:

1. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. NY: Blackwell, 1998.

1-1. 110-18-- "The Structural Study of Myth"
1-2. 533-60 -- "The Traffic in Women."
1-3. 637-49-- "Notes toward a Politics of Location."

2. Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies, fourth edition. Eds. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer. New York: Longman, c1998.

2-1. Kristeva "Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science" 273-82;
2-2. Louis Marin "Disneyland: A Degenerate Utopia" 283-96.

3. "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of Women" The Sex which is not One. NY: Cornell UP, 1985.
4. Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction. Don Mitchell, Donald Mitchell. NY: Blackwell, 2000.
5. Soja, Edward. Third Space: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
6. Kaplan, Caren. Question of Travel: Postmodern Discourse of Displacement. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
7. "Word, dialogue and novel." Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Edited by Leon Roudiez. Translated by Alice Jardine, Thomas Gora and Leon Roudiez. New York, Columbia University Press, London, Basil Blackwell, 1980: 64-91.