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Academic Year 2000/2001

Aesthetics and Otherness
ENGL 274 SP
Crosslistings:
WMST 274

This course will examine how texts marked by difference of race, class, gender, geography, power, technology interrupt, distort, appropriate, reconstruct the aesthetic discourses of dominant cultures. We will read a few of the foundational texts of Western aesthetics, then proceed to those that record the visible and conscious construction of counter-aesthetics by, among others, surrrealists, feminists, postcolonialists, and African Americanists.

MAJOR READINGS

The course includes literary and theoretical texts by Aristotle, Longinus, Kant, Barthes, Cixous, DuBlau Plessis, Gunn Allen, Hal Foster, Gabriel Okara, Amos Tutuola, Wilson Harris, Rushdie, Spivak, Sangari, Gomez Pena, and others.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two short papers, classroom presentations, one research paper. Attendance and participation.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course counts toward the English department's theory requirement.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: ENGL201 OR WMST101 OR AFAM201 OR AMST200 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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