Comp Lit 184
Spring 1988
DECONSTRUCTION
Reading and Rhetorical Structures
February
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| Introduction
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| Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory
("The Resistance to Theory," "The Return to Philology," "Interview")
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| *Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an
Extra-Moral Sense," de Man, #Allegories of Reading ("Rhetoric of Tropes")
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| HOLIDAY.
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| #Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General
Linguistics ("Introduction" "General Principles," "Synchronic Linguistics")
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| Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (Part I:
"Writing before the Letter")
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| Of Grammatology (Part II, 1: "The Violence of
the Letter: from Lévi-Strauss to Rousseau")
#Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques ("A Writing Lesson")
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| Of Grammatology (Part II, 2: "That Dangerous
Supplement") de Man, #Allegories of Reading ("Excuses")
begin reading Rousseau, Confessions
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March
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| Of Grammatology (Part
II, 3: "Genesis and Structure of the Essay on the Origin of Languages")
de Man, #Blindness and Insight ("The Rhetoric of Blindness")
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| Of Grammatology (finish)
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| Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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| The Purloined Poe:
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Purloined Letter"
Jacques Lacan, "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'"
Shoshana Felman, "On Reading Poetry"
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| Derrida, "The Purveyor of Truth"
Barbara Johnson, "The Frame of Reference"
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| Derrida, The Post Card
("To Speculate--on 'Freud'")
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April
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| Plato, Phaedrus
Derrida, Dissemination ("Plato's Pharmacy")
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| Derrida, The Post Card ("Envois")
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| Derrida, Dissemination ("The Double Session")
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| Derrida, Spurs
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| Derrida, #Writing and Difference
("Violence and Metaphysics") Freud, Moses and Monotheism
Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain
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| #Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ed., "Race, Writing,
and Difference:" Gates, "Introduction" Edward Said, "An Ideology of Difference"
Gayatri Spivak, "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism"
Derrida, "Racism's Last Word" Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon, "No Names Apart..."
Derrida, "But, beyond ..."
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