Dora Carrington

Instructor: Florence Boos, 319 English Philosophy Building
Office hour: Mondays 4-5, and Mondays and Wednesdays after class, and by appointment
Phone, office, 335-0434, (answering machine), home 338-4383; e-mail, florence-boos@uiowa.edu

Texts: (in IMU Bookstore)

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent Leitch

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel

Martha Nussbaum, The Frailty of Goodness

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader

Fritz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Jonathan Bate, The Song of the Earth

Since buying the anthology plus seven books might be too expensive for many, I hope that students might plan to share these purchases with one or two others.

You are asked to post to the discussion page every other week, for a total of 7 roughly one-two page single-spaced commentaries during the term. (Please number and title your postings, e. g. posting no. 1, "Said's Views on Post-Structuralism"). At least three of the postings should respond in some way to that of another graduate student.

You are also asked to write an essay of +/- 10 pages which evaluates a mode or approach, using one of the texts we have read, and due before the time of the official final exam. For example, you might discuss an issue important to contemporary Marxism using Frederic Jameson's The Political Unconscious and other Marxist theorists we have have read. If you hand in a rough draft a week or more before the essay is due, I’ll give preliminary suggestions and comments. During finals week, in lieu of an official exam, we will have at least one class session in which students describe their respective projects.