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LTST 605: Current Issues in Literary Studies (Rev. 1) Report a Broken Link

Literary Studies 605 is a required course for the Literary Studies specialization in the MAIS degree program.

Reading 1

Required Readings
Armstrong, Jolene. "Modernism/Postmodernism: the dialogue of the modern age."
Supplementary Readings
Ashcroft, B. “What are Post-Colonial Literatures” 2002

Reading 2

Required Readings
Barthes, Roland. “The death of the author,”
Supplementary Readings
Bakhtin, M. “Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art” 1926 Elbow, P. Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing. Vol. 4. Routledge, 1995. (ISBN 9781880393079)

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Reading 3

Required Readings
Baudrillard, Jean. “Simulacra and Simulations.”
Supplementary Readings
Clarke, George Elliott. “The Treason of the Black Intellectuals?” 1999.

Reading 4

Required Readings
Clarke, G. E. “Must All Blackness Be American?” 1996
Supplementary Readings
Connell, Liam. “Post-colonial Interdisciplinarity.” Critical Survey 16.2 (2004)

Reading 5

Required Readings
Foucault, Michel. “What is an author?”
Supplementary Readings
Eagleton, T. “Introduction: What is Literature?” 1983

Reading 6

Required Readings
Genette, Gerard. “Structuralism and Literary Criticism.”
Supplementary Readings
Hooks, Bell. “Postmodern Blackness” 1991

Reading 7

Required Readings
Graff, G. “Introduction: The Humanist Myth.” Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007
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Supplementary Readings
Huggan, Graham. "Postcolonial studies and the anxiety of interdisciplinarity.” Postcolonial Studies 5.3 (2002): 245-75.
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Reading 8

Required Readings
Hutcheon, L. “ Representing the Postmodern” 1989
Supplementary Readings
Pivato, Joseph. “Representation of Ethnicity as Problem: Essence or Construction.” 1998

Reading 9

Required Readings
Jakobson, Roman. ”Linguistics and Poetics.”
Supplementary Readings
Robinson, L. “Treason our Text: Feminist challenges to the Literary Canon” 1983 AU library subscription to Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (ISSN 07327730)

Reading 10

Required Readings
Jakobson, Roman. ”Lecture I.”
Supplementary Readings
Showalter, E. “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness” 1985

Reading 11

Required Readings
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism Critical Inquiry Vol. 12, No. 1, "Race," Writing, and Difference (Autumn, 1985), pp. 243-261 The University of Chicago Press