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Each seminar session beginning October 8 will start with a 15-minute report
focusing on an aspect of the critic under discussion that is distinct from
the text read for class.
October 9: Mark Vega on the concept of reification in Lukács's History
and Class Consciousness
October 16: Jason Friend on Bakhtin and/or Medvedev's The Formal Method
in Literary Scholarship
October 23: (1) David Roxborough on Benjamin's Arcades project; (2) Susan
Schuyler on the Adorno/Horkheimer concept of the "culture industry"
October 30: Noam Cohen on the use of the "hermeneutic circle" as
a method of interpretation in Auerbach's fellow Romance scholar Leo Spitzer
November 6: (1) Lauren Baird on some key concepts of Lacan; (2) Matthew Garrett
on the concept of polyphony in Bakhtin's book on Dostoevsky
November 13: (1) Jennie Floyd on the concept of the episteme as a way of ordering
history in Foucault's The Order of Things; (2) Emily Wilkinson on Judith
Butler's concept of gender as performance
November 20: (1) Amy Tang on Gayatri Spivak's postcolonial theory; (2) Kara
Wittman on Said's postcolonial analyses of works such as Mansfield Park,
Aida, and Kim in Culture and Imperialism
November 27: Miruna Stanica on Bourdieu's analysis of the academic profession
in Homo Academicus
Students should carefully time their reports so that they do not run over
the 15-minute limit. We shall have about 10 minutes of discussion after each
report. When preparing a report, assume that your audience has not read the
text or texts you are presenting. Above all, be succinct and clear, even when
you are dealing with complex and sometimes obscure material. Bring a handout
with a brief outline accompanied, if relevant, with some key quotations. On
those days that we have two reports, please be prepared to stay in class up
to 5:30 p.m.