THEORY AND WRITING: CARE THEORY in Spring 2025 (CL2085)

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Examines the major tenets, philosophical perspectives, and critical orientations of literary theory from Plato and Aristotle to the present. Students study critical texts from literary and non-literary disciplines, schools, and voices that have come to impact the Western theoretical canon, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, Russian formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, new historicism, and post-colonialism.

Course Master: 
THEORY AND WRITING (CL2085)
Term: 
Spring 2025
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCR
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 16:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Notes

Joan Tronto and Berenice Fisher "suggest that caring be viewed as a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’ so that we can live in it as well as possible. That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment, all of which we seek to interweave

in a complex, life-sustaining web" (Fisher and Tronto 1990). In this course students will learn about the outgrowth of feminist thought that is care theory and read feminist science fiction that posits ways in which we could repair our world.


Learning Outcomes

  1. Relate current debates in theory and criticism to the critical tradition to which they are responding
  2. To characterize the principle ideas of a selection of important literary theorists from antiquity to the present
  3. Use the thought of the authors studied to analyze literary texts
  4. Students will be able to engage in the writing practices and culture of their chosen major, adding to the skills acquired in the Research, Interpretation, and Writing classes to develop a personal, authentic disciplinary voice (CCR)

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
G-102
Friday
15:20
16:40
G-102