As promised, I have made a (truly) random assignment of people to terms. As part of your intellectual participation, I have asked each of you to "own" a term, so to speak, or to own it inasmuch as it pertains to a theorist or text that we are discussing on a given day. Here are the (truly) random assignments:
- affective fallacy (3/5 with Bakhtin
Wimsatt and Beardsley) -- Kavan - alterity (4/13 with Gates) -- Tessa
- deconstruction (2/13 with Derrida) -- Kevin
- dialectical materialism (4/4 with Benjamin) -- Marianthi
- diaspora (4/11 with Spivak) -- Juliet
- differance (2/13 with Derrida) -- Lauren
- ecriture feminine (4/9 with Butler) -- Sarah
- erasure (2/13 with Derrida) -- Sean
- frame and/or frame story (2/15 with Bakhtin) -- Emily
- gynocriticism (4/9 with Butler) -- Ryan
- hegemony (4/11 with Spivak) -- Eric
- heteroglossia (2/15 with Bakhtin) -- Rachel
- hybridity (4/13 with Gates) -- Peter
- identification (4/2 with Cooper) -- Olivia
- intentional fallacy (3/5 with Bakhtin
Wimsatt and Beardsley) -- Mary - langue and parole (3/2 with Bakhtin) -- Janelle
- logocentrism (2/17 with Burke) -- Trey
- Marxist criticism (2/17 with Burke) -- tylur
- narratology (3/9 with Booth) -- J.T.
- reader-response criticism (3/9 with Booth) -- Tango
- representation (4/2 with Cooper) -- Scott
- sign and signification (2/8 with Locke) -- Sophia
- structuralism (2/13 with Derrida) -- Nathan
- symbol (2/20 with McCloud) -- Jonathan
Your options for looking up these terms are many, including:
1) Bedford Glossary
2) Oxford English Dictionary
3) introductory essays and background essays (in Oncourse)
4) other relevant, helpful, supplemental texts in the reference stacks at Wells Library
- A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th Edition (eds. M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham)
- The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (eds. Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi)
- The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 4th Edition (ed. J.A. Cuddon)
- Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age (ed. Theresa Enos)
- The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction, 3rd Edition (James A. Herrick)
While I am not asking you to give a formal presentation, or to hand anything in, I am asking you to be prepared to contribute some substantive comments on how that term illumines the questions we are working through that day and/or to report generally about how the term is salient to our reading. Please do not make the mistake of thinking that my expectations are not as high as they would be for your other work, or that I (and your classmates) will be content with a generic definition of any of these terms. We are going to have to understand these terms in their fullest, most critical (and complicated) sense, and this will mean going beyond a dictionary definition. You owe yourselves much more than that.
Have fun with this. As always, I am on hand to assist!
-Prof. Graban
