ENCR 481: Contemporary Literature and Theory

Engineering the Self in the Late Twentieth Century


John Unsworth
TR 15:30-16:45 Cabell 123
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Office Hours: 2-3 p.m. T (IATH: Alderman, 3rd Floor, West Wing)
5-6 p.m. R (IATH: Alderman, 3rd Floor, West Wing)
9 p.m. M (IATH-MOO)


Class Schedule:

September 6, 8, 13, 15: Self and Information
Delillo, White Noise
Baudrillard, Simulations

September 20, 22, 27, 29: Self and Language
Bahktin, "The Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse" (from The Dialogic Imagination)
Frisch, Man in the Holocene

October 4, 6, 11, 13: Self and the Text
Eco, The Open Work
Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

October 20, 25, 27: Semester Projects
Preliminary Presentations (bibliographies, abstracts, discussion)

November 1, 3, 8, 10: Self and Technology
Haraway, Simians Cyborgs and Women
Kroker, Spasm
Stephenson, Snow Crash

November 15, 17, 22, 29: Self and the Body
Bataille, Visions of Excess
Burroughs, The Ticket that Exploded

December 1, 6, 8, 13: Semester Projects
Final Presentations (text, verbal abstract, discussion)
Final Exam: December 13, 9-12


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