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EN122 Modes of Reading 2015-2016

EN122 Modes of Reading 2015-2016. Introduction. Aims and structure Lectures and seminars Academic Writing Sessions coordinated by Dr Rochelle Sibley Assessments: formative and assessed essays. Why theory matters. This leads me to the last part of your question: "Is it necessary to

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EN122 Modes of Reading 2015-2016

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  1. EN122 Modes of Reading2015-2016 Introduction

  2. Aims and structure Lectures and seminars Academic Writing Sessions coordinated by Dr Rochelle Sibley Assessments: formative and assessed essays

  3. Why theory matters

  4. This leads me to the last part of your question: "Is it necessary to make a distinction between literature and literary criticism here?" I'm not sure. What has just been said can have to do with both of them. I don't feel at ease either with a rigorous distinction between "literature" and "literary criticism" or with a confusion of the two. What would the rigorous limit between them be? "Good" literary criticism, the only worthwhile kind, implies an act, a literary signature or counter- signature, an inventive experience of language, in language, an inscription of the act of reading in the field of the text that is read. This text never lets itself be completely "objectified." Yet I would not say that we can mix everything up and give up the distinctions between all these types of "literary" or "critical" production (for there is also a "critical" instance at work "in" what is called the literary work). "THIS STRANGE INSTITUTION CALLED LITERATURE” AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES DERRIDA 1989.

  5. The rise of literary studies • The New Criticism • Intentional Fallacies, Death of the Author • Structuralism • Feminist Theories • Poststructuralism • Postcolonial Theory • Cultural Criticisms • Post-theory, no theory at all • Why theory matters

  6. Blade Runner 2049

  7. Blade Runner 2049

  8. The rise of literary studies • The New Criticism • Intentional Fallacies, Death of the Author • Structuralism • Feminist Theories • Poststructuralism • Postcolonial Theory • Cultural Criticisms • Post-theory, no theory at all • Why theory matters

  9. If the humanities has a future as cultural criticism, and cultural criticism has a task at the present moment, it is no doubt to return us to the human where we do not expect to find it, in its frailty and at the limits of its capacity to make sense. Judith Butler. Precarious Life. 2004.

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