Fall 2024

Tuesday

12:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Crosslisted: AFRAMER 205/ROM-STD 201/GERMAN 291: Questions of Theory

Doris Sommer, Nicole Suetterlin

To explore key literary, cultural and critical theories, we pose questions through readings of classic and contemporary theorists, from Aristotle to Kant, Schiller, Arendt, Barthes, Foucault, Glissant, Ortiz, Kittler, and Butler, among others. Their approaches include aesthetics, (post)structuralism, (post)colonialism, media theory, gender theory, ecocriticism. Each seminar addresses a core reading and a cluster of variations. Weekly writing assignments will formulate a question that addresses the core texts to prepare for in-class discussions and interpretive activities.

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