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Professor Alice Jardine
Comparative Literature 181:
Fall 1988
Introduction to Semiotics
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21 September: | Introductions: Formal Systems |
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28 September: | Final Introductions: Signs of History |
and begin
SEMIOTICS AND LINGUISTICS
*Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
(The Anagrammes)
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5 October: | Peirce--Selections
Benveniste, "The Nature of the Linguistic Sign" and
"Saussure After Half A Century" in
Problems in General Linguistics |
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Recommended Reading: |
Kristeva, "The Ethics of Linguistics"
Starobinski, Les Mots sous les Mots
Kristeva, "The Speaking Subject and the Predicative Function"
Derrida, "The Supplement of Copula"
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SEMIOTICS AND POETICS
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12 October: | Formalism: |
Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics"
"Two Aspects of Language and
Two Types of Aphasic
Disturbances"
"Coup D'Oeil sur le
développement de la
sémictique" (optional) and
Lévi-Strauss, "Charles
Baudelaire's 'Les Chats'"
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Recommended Reading: | Victor Erlich, Russian Formalism
Fredric Jameson, The Prison-House of Language
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19 October: | Roland Barthes: *S/Z
"Myth Today" in Mythologies
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Recommended Reading: | Elements of Semiology
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26 October:
| Two Out of Four:
Riffaterre: Selections (The Semiotics of Poetry)
"Describing Poetic Structures: Two
Approaches to Baudelaire's 'Les
Chats'"
Todorov: Selections (The Poetics of Prose)
"The Birth of Occidental Semiotics"
"Perspectives Sémiologiques"
Greimas: Selections (Structural Semantics)
Genette: Selections (Narrative Discourse)
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Recommended Reading: |
Paul de Man: "Semiology and Rhetoric"
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SEMIOTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
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2 November:
| Freud, "The Dream Work" (Chap. 6, The Interpretation
of Dreams)
Lacan, "The Insistence of the Letter in the
Unconscious"
Introduction to Semiotics
Semiotics and Psychoanalysis, continued
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Recommended Reading:
| Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics
Anthony Wilden, System and Structure:
Essays in Communication and
Exchange
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9 November: | Continue reading Lacan and begin
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SEMIOTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
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| Derrida, "Semiology and Grammatology"
"Différance"
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16 November: | Deleuze: Selections (Proust and Signs)
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Recommended Reading: | Derrida, essays from Writing and Difference
Deleuze, "Sur Quelques Régimes de Signes"
Goux, "L'Inconscient at historie" in
Economie at Symbolique
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and begin
SEMIOTICS AND CULTURAL CRITICISMS
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Marxist Critique: |
Coward and Ellis, "Marxism, Language and Ideology"
"The Critique of the Sign"
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23 November: |
Socio-Semiotic Critique: | Baudrillard, Selections
Kristeva, Selections |
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Feminist Critique: | Kristeva, "Motherhood According to
Bellini"
Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema"
Scholes, "Uncoding Mama"
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30 November: | Foucault: *This Is Not A Pipe
Preface to The Order of Things
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Recommended Reading: |
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory
Kristeva, Desire to Language
Yuri Lotman, The Structure of the Artistic
Text
V. Volosinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of
Language
Foucault, The Order of Discourse
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and begin
SEMIOTICS AND CINEMA
C. Metz, "Semiotics of Cinema"
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7 December: | K. Silverman, "Suture"
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Recommended Reading: | "Cinema Semiotics and the Work of Metz" in
Screen
Issues of Camera Obscura
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn't
Deleuze, Cinema I Movement-Images
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14 December: | General Discussion
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