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AMST279

The Cultural Production of the Psychological Self: Eugene
AMST279 FA

Crosslistings: ENGL261

Next Offered in 9899 FA

O'Neill We will read Eugene O'Neill's plays (1913-43) in the historical context of the ideological production of the bourgeois psychological subject. Our work on O'Neill will draw on the history of middle-class family life, the history of anarchism and socialism in the 1910's, the history of pop psychology in the 1910's and 1920's, left-wing critiques of O'Neill in the 1920's and 1930's, feminist plays of the 1910's and 1920's, and cultural studies theoretical approaches to the study of bourgeois subjectivity.

MAJOR READINGS

Susan Glaspell and Jig Cook, SUPPRESSED
DESIRES
Susan Glaspell, TRIFLES, WOMAN'S HONOR, THE VERGE
Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, selections from THE MASSES, THE
LIBERATOR, and THE NEW MASSES
Emma Goldman, selections from MOTHER EARTH
Eugene O'Neill, THE WEB, THE HAIRY APE, THE PERSONAL
EQUATION, WELDED, DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, STRANGE INTERLUDE,
MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, AH, WILDERNESS!, THE ICEMAN
COMETH, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Louis Bisch, BE GLAD YOU'RE NEUROTIC
William J. Fielding, THE CAVEMAN WITHIN US

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

One 5-7 page paper and one long research paper. Each student will take a turn at leading class discussion.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-03-1998




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