INTRODUCTORY LECTURE: WHAT IS CRITIQUE? CLOSE READING AND AGAINST INTERPRETATION DECONSTRUCTION READING WITH DECONSTRUCTION LANGUAGE POSTMODERNISM FEMINIST GENEALOGIES GENDER THEORY QUEERNESS AND THE POSTCOLONIAL THE PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH WEAK THEORY, POSTCRITIQUE, ITALIAN THEORY RELIGION AND CRITICAL THOUGHT: NOTES ON LITERATURE AS GIFT Programma dettagliato disponibile: http://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/user

CORE BIBLIOGRAPHY T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (1936-1939) Jacques Derrida, “Différance” (1968), and from On Grammatology (1974) Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics (1966) Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious (1981) and from Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) Eve K. Sedgwick, from “Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this essay is about you”( 2003) Roberto Esposito, from Pensiero Vivente (2010) and “German Philosophy, French Theory, Italian Thought” (2015) Mario Martino e Antonella Gargano, a cura di, Conrad, Eliot, Grass, Benjamin, Dresen, e le scenografie della memoria. Oltre l'Europa: storia e letteratura (Roma: Lithos, 2019) REQUIRED TEXTS: A course packet containing the following texts made available on the University website: http://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/user Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York London: Routledge, 1990) 1-7; 128-141; 142-149 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin (NewYork Toronto London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966) Jacques Derrida, “Différance” (1968), Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982) 1; 9-27. —— “The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing,” On Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974) 6-26. T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” in The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926, Anthony Cuda and Ron Schuchard eds., (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press and Faber & Faber Ltd, 2014) 105- 114.. Roberto Esposito, from Pensiero Vivente (Torino: Einaudi, 2010) 3-13; 23-33. —— “German Philosophy, French Theory, Italian Thought,” in “Forum: American Studies and Italian Theory,” ed. Mena Mitrano, RSA Journal: Rivista di Studi Americani 26 (2015): 106-116. Fredric Jameson, “On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act,” in The Political Unconscious (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981) 17-102. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991) 1-45. Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage,” in Ecrits, trans. Alan Sheridan (London New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977) 1-7. Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” from Sister/Outsider:Essays and Speeches (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1984) 40-44. Adrienne Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry and Prose, eds. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi and Albert Gelpi (New York London: W. W. Norton and Co., 1971) 166-177. Eve K. Sedgwick, from “Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this essay is about you,”in Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham: Duke UP, 2003) 123-142. Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation,” in Against Interpretation and Other Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990, first ed. 1966) 1-14. Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” in Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 1994) 24-29.