April 16, 2006
Call Me Crazy...
During my time in the CCR program, I have read some very complicated texts. It’s not that the texts are especially ambiguous because they do not relate to me culturally, but instead because of the gaps in my lack of authentic knowledge with regard to rhetorical theory. This summer I plan to address this gap by taking an independent study that will give me the opportunity to engage with various theoretical texts, which I know will make me feel like I actually “know” something. Despite the fact that it is the end of the semester and I have projects to work on, papers to grade, and various other activities, I have to say that I am looking forward to it…hence the title of this entry. Thus far, this is what the reading list looks like:
Works Cited
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses". Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. 1971 - Monthly Review Press
Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author" Barthes, Roland, and Stephen Heath, eds. Image, Music, Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.
Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: UC Press, 1950.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:Routledge, 1990).
Cixous, Helene. "The Laugh of the Medusa". The Signs Reader: Women, Gender, and Scholarship. eds. Elizabeth Abel and Emily K. Abel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. 279-97.
Davis, Diane. Breaking up [at) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter. Carbondale:. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Derrida, Jacques. “Plato's Pharmacy.” Dissemination . Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1981. 63-119.
_____. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”. Writing and Difference, Trans. Alan Bass. London: Routledge, 278-294.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?" Trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977. 124-127.
_____.Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1977.
Neel, Jasper. Plato, Derrida, and Writing. Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
Ricouer, Paul. The Conflict of Interpretations. Essays in Hermeneutics, Trans. D. Ihde Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1974.
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