Please read over these questions while you prepare a given reading: they will help you test your understanding of the reading, give you a good sense of what issues we’ll be discussing in class, and, when exam time comes, provide you with a valuable study aid.
[N.B.: as of early September, I’m still dealing with converting my page #s from Norton’s 1st to the 2nd edition. So all page #s are correct below; however, all references to page #s in the actual questions refer to the 1st ed until further notice.]
Ideology/Hegemony/Power
Marx, from Political and Econ. Mss.; from German Ideology; from Capital
Gramsci, from The Prison Notebooks
Althusser, “Ideology and ISAs”
Fanon, “The Fact of Blackness”
Hebdige, from Subculture: the Meaning of Style
Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
Deleuze and Guattari, from A Thousand Plateaus
Language/Structure
Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (955-60)
Eagleton, “The Rise of English” (2140-45)
Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying…” (764-73)
Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics (850-66)
Jakobson, from Linguistics and Poetics and “Two Aspects of Language…” (1144-55)
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