English Literature (ENG) |
118 Prince Lucien Campbell, 541-346-3911
English
College of Arts & Sciences
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Course Data
| ENG 615 Top Poetics of Image |
5.00 cr. |
| Intensive study of one to three major theorists or a significant theoretical problem. Repeatable up to 4 times. |
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Graded for all students
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| Instructor: |
Pyle F  |
Office:
270 PLC
Phone:
(541) 346-3928
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Only Open to Majors:
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English
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12093 |
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15 |
1600-1850 |
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349 MCK |
Pyle F |
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Final Exam: |
1445-1645 |
w 12/07 |
349 MCK |
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Academic Deadlines
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Expanded Course Description
| Poetics of the Image: Queer and Infidel
Taking its inspirations and its starting points from Roland Barthes’ “investigations” of the visual image in Camera Lucida and Daniel Tiffany’s cultural genealogy of an “infidel poetics,” this seminar will explore a contemporary “poetics” of the literary as well as the visual image. I describe it as a poetics to indicate the seminar’s emphasis on practices as well as theories of the image. The seminar’s subtitle -- “queer and infidel” -- names the expansive and intersecting discourses that animate this poetics in a range of theorists, critics, poets, and filmmakers in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Anglo-American culture and Continental theory.
My hope in the seminar is to orient our attention to important theoretical accounts of the image (such as Barthes, Benjamin, Deleuze) in order to pursue the image’s currency through a series of “disorientations” by “image-makers” of various modern modes and moments (such as Oscar Wilde, Percy & Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frank O’Hara, Derek Jarman, Todd Haynes, Wong-Kar Wei, Jane Campion), with some contemporary critical responses to the role of the image for a queer & infidel poetics, broadly conceived (such as Walter Pater, Daniel Tiffany, Leo Bersani, Eve Sedgewick, Steven Best, Lee Edelman, Sarah Ahmed, Wayne Koestenbaum, Alexander Garcia-Duttman, and Jacques Khalip). This provisional roster of theorists, critics, and artists devoted to the literary and visual image is subject to revisions: it is intended to suggest the outlines of this constellation for our explorations of the genealogy and possibilities of a “queer and infidel” poetics of the image.
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