English 2010: Modern Critical Thought

Links to Lecture Notes

(Links to Available Lectures are in BLUE.)

"Theory Before Theory," or "What Do We Do with Literature?"

Ferdinand de Saussure

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth

Structuralism/Poststructuralism

Jacques Derrida: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"

Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud

Jacques Lacan

What is Feminism (and why do we have to talk about it so much)?

Helene Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa"

Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which is Not One"

Queer Theory

Marxism and Ideology

Althusser: "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"

Mikhail Bakhtin

Michel Foucault: What is an Author?

Yamato and Lugones

Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory"

Trinh Minh-ha, "Not You/Like You"

Postmodernism

Judith Butler, "Gender Trouble"

See also the Syllabus and Links to Lecture Notes for English 2010, Introduction To Literary Theory, for Fall Semester 2001.

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