The
M.A. Exam Reading List (Revised Fall 2009)
- Plato, Republic (Books 7 and 10), Phaedrus
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Horace, Ars poetica
- Longinus, On the Sublime
- Augustine, Confessions (Book 10), On Christian Doctrine (Book 2)
- Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
- Dante, "Epistola a Cangrande," Convivio, Book 1
- Du Bellay, from Defense and Illustration of the French Language (Selections in Norton Anthology)
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (first three Meditations)
- Vico, from The New Science Book 2, “Poetic Logic” (Selections in Norton Anthology)
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Preface and Introduction), Critique of Judgment (Selections)
- Hegel, The Philosophy of History (Introduction), Phenomenology of Spirit (Lordship and Bondage), Lectures on Fine Arts (Introduction)
- Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Emerson, “Nature,” “The American Scholar”
- Marx, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology (excerpt from pt. 1 on Feuerbach), excerpts from Capital Vol. 1 (Chapter 1, pt. 4 on commodity fetishism; Chapter 4, the general formula for capital; Chapter 26, the secret of primitive accumulation; and Chapter 33, the modern theory of colonization), excerpt from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on alienated labor.
- Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 1-18 including Preface and Introduction), On the Genealogy of Morals (Preface and First Treatise), "On Truth and Lying in an Extramoral Sense"
- Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Avon version of text: 128-253, 311-319, 340-344, 374-388), "Fetishism," "The Uncanny," "Negations," Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
- Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (Parts 1 and 2)
- Lévi-Strauss, "The Science of the Concrete" in The Savage Mind, "The Structural Study of Myth"
- Benjamin, "The Storyteller," "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," "Theses on the Philosophy of History"
- Gramsci, "Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Bloc" (189-221) and "Popular Culture" (363-379) in Gramsci Reader
- Brecht, "The Modern Theater is an Epic Theater"
- Shklovsky, “Art as Device”
- Lukács, "Narrate or Describe?" in Writer & Critic
- Jakobson, "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles," “The Closing Statement”
- Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art"
- Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel," Introduction to Rabelais and His World
- Adorno & Horkheimer, “The Concept of Enlightenment” and “The Culture Industry’ from The Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Auerbach, "Odysseus' Scar" from Mimesis
- Lacan, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious," "The Mirror Stage," "The Signification of the Phallus"
- Fanon, Black Skins/White Masks (excerpts), "On National Consciousness" from The Wretched of the Earth
- Barthes, "The Death of the Author," "The Structuralist Activity"
- Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
- Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play," "White Mythology"
- De Man, "The Rhetoric of Temporality"
- Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol. 1, "What is an Author?," "What is Enlightenment?"
- Bourdieu, "Structures, Habitus, Practices," "Belief and the Body," both from The Logic of Practice.
- Jameson, The Political Unconscious (9-57), and from Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Chapter 1 (“The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”) and Chapter 2 (“Theories of the Postmodern”)
- Borges, “Pierre Menard,” “Funes”
- Deleuze & Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, “Rhizomes” from Anti-Oedipus
- Glissant, The Poetics of Relation (trans. Wing), “Approaches” (i.e. Section 1); pp. 111-120 (on francophonie); “For Opacity,” pp. 189-94
- Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (Chapters 1 and 3)
- Kristeva, "Approaching Abjection" in The Powers of Horror
- Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
- Said, Orientalism (Introduction)
- Butler, Gender Trouble (Introduction, Chapter 1, Conclusion), “Gender is Burning” from Bodies that Matter
- Agamben, from Homo Sacer, Introduction and Part 1, “The Logic of Sovereignty”
- Levinas, "The Other in Proust," and "God and Philosophy" (both in The Levinas Reader)
- Gilroy, from The Black Atlantic, Chapter 1, “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity”
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