Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Tps in Criticism & Theor: Literary Studies and Sociology
Term
2020A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML570401
Course number integer
570
Registration notes
Undergraduates Need Permission
Meeting times
T 12:00 PM-03:00 PM
Meeting location
BENN 112
Level
graduate
Instructors
James English
Description
Topic for Fall 2017: "Object Theory". This seminar will investigate the rise of and ongoing scholarly concern with "objects" and "things," which has emerged from fields such as anthropology and art history as a category of renewed interest for literary scholars, too. We will investigate key contributions to theories of the object by thinkers such as: Mauss, Barthes, Heidegger, Latour, Benjamin, Bill Brown, Jane Bennett, among others. Literary readings will accompany these theoretical texts.
Course number only
570
Cross listings
ENGL573401
Use local description
No