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English and Comparative Literary Studies

Modes of Reading

Handouts 2015-2016

Term 1

Modes of Reading Module Outline (Word Document)

Week 2 - Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (Word Document)

Week 3 - Sam Selvon and Fredric Jameson (Word Document)

Week 4: Sam Selvon and Raymond Williams (Word Document)

Week 5: Sam Selvon and Frantz Fanon (Word Document)

Week 7: Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers (Word Document)

Week 8: The Role of Art in the Age of Finance: The Flamethrowers as a Novel about Art (Word Document)

Week 9: China Girls and Feminist Revolutionaries: The Flamethrowers as a Feminist Novel (Word Document)

Week 10: The Coming Insurrection: The Flamethrowers as a contemporary novel (Word Document)

Term 2

Week 1: Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 2: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Karl Marx (Word Document)

Week 3: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Viktor Shklovsky (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 4: Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault (Word Document)

Week 5: Research Process and Academic Writing

Week 7: J.M. Coetzee's Foe (Word Document)

Week 8: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Edward Said (Word Document)

Week 9: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Stuart Hall (Word Document)

Week 10: J.M. Coetzee's Foe, Walter Benjamin “On the Concept of History” and Jacques Derrida “Racism’s Last Word” (Word Document)

Handouts 2014-15

Term 1

Modes of Reading Module Outline (Word Document)

Week 2 - Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop - Handout 1 (Word Document) Handout 2 (Word Document)

Week 3 - Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir - Handout (Word Document)

Week 4 - Angela Carter, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray (Word Document) (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 5 - Angela Carter, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler (Word Document) (Word Document) (Image file)

Week 7: Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 8: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Karl Marx (Word Document)

Week 9: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Viktor Shklovsky (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 10: Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault (Word Document)

Term 2:

Week 1: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (Word Document)

Week 2: Sam Selvon and Fredric Jameson (Word Document)

Week 3: Sam Selvon and Raymond Williams (Word Document)

Week 4: Sam Selvon and Frantz Fanon (Word Document)

Week 5: Research Process and Academic Writing

Week 7: J.M. Coetzee's Foe (Word Document)

Week 8: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Edward Said (Word Document)

Week 9: J.M. Coetzee's Foe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Stuart Hall (Word Document) (Word Document) 

Week 10: J.M. Coetzee's Foe, Walter Benjamin “On the Concept of History” and Jacques Derrida “Racism’s Last Word” (Word Document)

Modes of Reading 2013-14 (Word Document)

Term 1:

Week 2: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (Word Document)

Week 3: Sam Selvon and Fredric Jameson (Word Document)

Week 4: Sam Selvon and Raymond Williams (Word Document)

Week 5: Sam Selvon and Frantz Fanon (Word Document)

Week 7: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (Word Document)

Week 8: Hanif Kureishi and Edward Said (Word Document)

Week 9: Hanif Kureishi and Stuart Hall (Word Document)

Week 10: Hanif Kureishi and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Word Document)

Term 2:

Week 1: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop (Word Document)

Week 2: Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir (Word Document)

Week 3: Angela Carter, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray (Word Document) (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 4: Angela Carter, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler (Word Document) (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 5: Research Process and Academic Writing

Week 7: Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 8: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Karl Marx (Word Document)

Week 9: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Viktor Shklovsky (Word Document) (Word Document)

Week 10: Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault (Word Document)

(Word Document)