English 165

Special Topics: Critical Influences in Contemporary Culture

Section	Semester	Instructor	Time	Location	Course Areas
1	Fall 2014	Campion, John	TTh 9:30-11	103 Wheeler	Literary Theory Special Topics

Book List

Beaudrillard, Jean: Simulacra and Simulation; Chomsky, Noam: Necessary Illusions; Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F, Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus; Foucault, Michel: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison; Reich, Wilhelm: The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Description

The lectures, class discussions, readings, and writing assignments of this course are intended to develop students’ ability to analyze, understand, and evaluate a number of difficult and important texts concerning the concepts of freedom, knowledge, and political practices in contemporary democratic (and other) societies. Along the way, the course will introduce a number of critical issues connected to these themes, including: agency, selfhood, ecology, psychotherapy, economics, gender, race, and literature.

Other Recent Sections of This Course

spring, 2021
165/2	Special Topics: Utopian and (mostly) Dystopian Movies	Starr, George A.
165/3	Special Topics: Popular Music and Social Critique	Cruz, Frank Eugene
165/4	Special Topics: 21st-Century U.S. Poetry	O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
165/5	Special Topics: Alrish	Flynn, Catherine

fall, 2020
165/1	Special Topics: Law and Literature in the United States	de Stefano, Jason

spring, 2020
165/1	Special Topics: Elegy, Mourning, and the Representation of the Holocaust	Goodman, Kevis
165/2	Special Topics: Enlightenment & Romance: Scotland in the 18th Century	Duncan, Ian
165/3	Special Topics: On Lies, Lying, and Post-Truths--A Reading- and Writing-Intensive Investigation	Nadaff, Ramona
165/4	Special Topics: Family Histories from the Margins	Wilson, Evan

fall, 2019
165/1	Special Topics: Utopian and (mostly) Dystopian Movies	Bader, Julia
165/2	Special Topics: The Pleasures of Allegory	Wilson, Evan

spring, 2019
165/1	Special Topics: Global Tudors	Honig, Elizabeth
165/2	Special Topics: 21st-Century U. S. Poetry	O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
165/3	Special Topics: John Milton's Last Poems	Picciotto, Joanna M
165/4	Special Topics: The Art of Writing: The Visible Made Verbal	Kleege, Georgina
165/5	Special Topics: Note: See English 165 section 6	Danner, Mark
165/6	Special Topics: Nabokov and Naipaul	Hass, Robert L. Danner, Mark
165/7	Special Topics: The Materialist Epic	Goldsmith, Steven
165/8	Special Topics: American Humor	Starr, George A. Bader, Julia
165/9	Special Topics: The 1890s	Puckett, Kent

fall, 2018
165/1	Special Topics: Oscar Wilde and the Nineteenth Century	Lavery, Grace
165/2	Special Topics: The English Department	Marno, David
165/3	Special Topics: Literature and Media Theory	Langan, Celeste
165/4	Special Topics: The Ecology of Utopia	Goldstein, Amanda Jo
165/5	Special Topics: Reading Walden With Care	Breitwieser, Mitchell
165/6	Special Topics: Hardly Strictly Lyric Poems	Hanson, Kristin
165/7	Special Topics: Utopian and (mostly) Dystopian Movies	Starr, George A.

spring, 2018
165/1	Special Topics: H.P. Lovecraft in His Tradition	Breitwieser, Mitchell
165/2	Special Topics: Handel's Art in Setting English Words to Music	Hanson, Kristin
165/3	Special Topics: Is It Useless To Revolt?	Goldsmith, Steven
165/4	Special Topics: Neo-Slave Narratives	JanMohamed, Abdul R.
165/5	Special Topics: Incarcerations: The Literature of (Physical, Mental, Spiritual) Imprisonment	Padilla, Genaro M.

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English 165

Special Topics: Critical Influences in Contemporary Culture

Book List

Description

Other Recent Sections of This Course

spring, 2021

fall, 2020

spring, 2020

fall, 2019

spring, 2019

fall, 2018

spring, 2018