Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theories

Required exact edition: James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. Edited by P. Beidler. 3rd edition, 2010. This exact edition is required for its critical essays.

Required; any edition: Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987.

Required; any edition: Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Circa 1600.

Required viewing: The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1980; Rhymes for Young Ghouls, directed by Jeff Barnaby, listed as 2013 in required materials and 2014 in the weekly schedule; The Social Dilemma, 2020.

Required critical chapters: Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw; Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw; Gender Criticism and The Turn of the Screw; Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw, in the Beidler edition.

Required additional texts: Stuart Hall, Discourse and Power and Representing the Other (The West and the Rest); Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Colonizing Knowledges, from Decolonizing Methodologies, 2nd edition, 2012; Ursula K. Le Guin, Newton’s Sleep; Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Becoming Ghost.

Required additional texts: Line Henrikson, Spread the Word: Creepypasta, Hauntology, and an Ethics of the Curse, University of Toronto Quarterly 87(1), 2018; Nancy Holland, The Death of the Other/Father: A Feminist Reading of Derrida’s Hauntology, Hypatia 16(1), 2001; Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Black Feminist Hauntology: Rememory the Ghosts of Abolition?, Champ Pénal/Penal Field 22, 2015; Eve Tuck and C. Ree, Glossary of Haunting, in The Handbook of Autoethnography, 2013.

Further required course materials: Additional short articles, films, interviews, podcasts and a poem are specified in the source’s module schedule and linked through D2L.

Required: Maracle, Lee. Ravensong: A Novel. 2nd Ed. Women’s Press, 2016. (Required)

Required: Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan. Literary Theory: An Anthology. 3rd ed. Wiley Blackwell

Required: 2017. (Required. Note that the 2nd edition is also acceptable, but a few articles in the 3rd edition are missing in the 2nd edition, which

Required: Atwood, Margaret. “You Fit into Me.” Power Politics. Anansi, 1971, p.1. Poem Hunter, www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-fit-into-me/. Accessed 27 August 2021. Caseythecanadianlesbrarian. “A Review of Lee Maracle’s Ravensong: Queering

Required: Decolonization, Decolonizing Queerness.” Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.

Required: Blog, Word Press, 25 Nov. 2012, caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2012/11/25/a

Required: review-of-lee-maracles-ravensong-queering-decolonization-decolonizing- queerness/. Accessed 27 August 2021.

Required: Dadey, Bruce. “Dialogue with Raven: Bakhtinian Theory and Lee Maracle's Ravensong.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol.28, no.1, 2003, pp.109-31. journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/12784/13761. Accessed 27 August 2021.

Required: Fee, Margery and Sneja Gunew. “From Discomfort to Enlightenment: An Interview with Lee Maracle.” Essays on Canadian Writing, vol.83, no.3, 2004, pp.206-221. open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/item s/1.0074541. Accessed 27 August 2021.

Required: Hoy, Helen. “‘Because You Aren’t Indian’: Lee Maracle’s Ravensong.” Resources for Feminist Research, vol.25, no.3.4, 1997, pp. 53-59. search-proquest- com.ezproxy.lakeheadu.ca/docview/194883948/fulltext/DC02B6272492480DPQ/ 1?accountid=11956, Accessed 27 August 2021.

Required: Leggatt, Judith. “Raven's Plague: Pollution and Disease in Lee Maracle's Ravensong. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature vol. 33. No.4, 2000, pp. 163-178. search-proquest-com.ezproxy.lakeheadu.ca/docview/205368522 /fulltext/%2038BD24B57F994D65PQ/8?accountid=11956. Accessed 27 August

Required: Course Schedule (subject to change if necessary – check “News” in MyCourselink for occasional updates). Note that “RR3” refers to third edition, which is the required text for this course. “RR2” refers to second edition of Rivkin and Ryan textbook, which is acceptable but lacks some articles that

Required: 13 2. How Does Theory affect Critical Practice? Before class read “A Short History of Theory” RR3: xi-xxxii.

Required: 20 4. Language: How does Formalist Theory Help Us Read? Before class read Maracle, Ravensong Chapter 1.

Required: 22 5. Language: How Does the Structure of Language Work? Before class read Saussure, “Course in General Linguistics” RR3: 137- 141, RR2: 59-64; Atwood, “You Fit into Me” (online).

Required: 27 6. Language: How Is Literary Language Stratified and Heteroglot? Before class read Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel” RR3 205-210, RR2 674-79; Ravensong Chapter 2.

Required: 29 7. Language: What is Double-voiced Narration? Before class read Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel” RR3 210-216, RR2 679-85; Ravensong Chapter 3.

Required: Oct. 4 8. Language: How Does Dialogism Work in Ravensong? Before class read Dadey, “Dialogue with Raven: Bakhtinian Theory and Lee Maracle's Ravensong” (online).

Required: 11-13 No Classes. Reading Week Read Ravensong Chapters 5-end. Research for Essay proposal.

Required: 25 12. Identity: How Does Mirroring Construct the Self? Before class read Lacan, “The Mirror Stage” RR3: 618-623, RR2: 441- 446; Siebers, “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification” RR 3: 1486- 1490; Ravensong Chapter 5.

Required: Nov. 1 14. Identity: How Is Gender Performative? Before class read Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” RR3: 955-959; Ravensong Chapter 6; Casey, “A review of Lee Maracle’s

Required: Ravensong: Queering Decolonization, Decolonizing Queerness” 1-3 (online).

Required: 10 17. Identity & Ideology: How Are Opportunities Shaped by Culture? Before class read Ravensong Chapter 8. Hoy, “‘Because You Aren’t Indian’: The Politics of Location in Lee Maracle” (online). L-M second discussion post due at end of day.

Required: 15 18. Ideology: How Does Labour Inspire Social Consciousness? Before class read Marx, “The German Ideology” RR3: 730-735, RR2: 656- 58;. Ravensong Chapters 9-10.

Required: 29 22. Ideology: How Do Subjects Respond to the Environment? Before class read Marland, “Ecocriticism” RR3: 1507-1528; Ravensong Chapter 14.

Required: Dec. 1 23. Ideology: How Does Literature Reconceive Ecological Balance? Before class read Ravensong Chapter 15; Leggatt, “Raven's Plague: Pollution and Disease in Lee Maracle's Ravensong.”

Required: (novella) Henry James (ed. P. Beidler), The Turn of the Screw (3d ed.), This exact edition of the novella is required because it has critical essays essential to this course.

Required: (novel) Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987 You are welcome to read any edition of this novel and it is also available as an ebook here: Amazon/Kindle1 or Google Books2

Required: (play) William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c.1600 You are welcome to read any edition of this play, and many are available for free online

Required: This class proceeds through 13 weekly modules, each of which consists of a series of activities.

Required: 1. Review course materials

Required: 3. Contribute to the discussion board twice within 14 days, one each week

Required: Your participation grade () depends on you making two good-faith contributions to the class discussion board, one each week, worth half a point each. For this contribution

Required: Contribute a one paragraph response to one of the week's discussion questions.

Required: Ask a thoughtful, one-paragraph question about one of the required readings.

Required: See the assignments section for guidance on contributing, asking and responding.

Required: Option A: Mini-essays

Required: Option B: Research essay

Required: 1. [News Article] "Why Some People See Ghosts and Other Apparitions7," Frank T. McAndrew, from Psychology Today, 9 July 2015.

Required: 2. [academic article] "A social anthropology of ghosts in twenty-first-century America," Joseph O. Baker and Christopher D. Bader, in Social Compass 61 (4)

Required: 01 - Ghosts of futures past (Sept 14-20)

Required: 1. [film] The Shining, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980. 2h26min

Required: 2. [news article] "The ghosts of our lives8," Tom Whyman, from New Statesman, 31 July 2019.

Required: 3. [essay] "A future with no future9," Mikkel Krause Frantzen, from LA Review of Books, 16 December 2019.

Required: 4. [YouTube] "Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia10," 2018. 11min

Required: 02 - The uses of ghosts (Sept 21-27)

Required: 1. [play] Hamlet, William Shakespeare, c. 1600

Required: 2. [chapter fragment] "Revenge fantasy" and "Hamlet's interregnum" from the conclusion of Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven, 2020.

Required: 3. [explainer] "Elizabethan context for Hamlet11," Isabel Smith-Bernstein, 2019.

Required: 7 apparitions 8 9 10 11

Required: 03 - Becoming ghosts (Sept 29-Oct 4)

Required: 1. [short story] "Newton's Sleep," Ursula K. Le Guin

Required: 2. [academic chapter] "Becoming Ghost," Richard Gilman-Opalsky

Required: 04 - Ghosts of discourse (Oct 5-11)

Required: 1. [academic chapter] "Discourse and Power" and "Representing the Other" (The West and the Rest) Stuart Hall

Required: 2. [academic chapter] "Colonizing knowledges" Linda Tuhiwai Smith, from Decolonizing Methodologies (2nd ed), 2012

Required: 3. [short film] Babakiueria12, dir. Don Featherstone, 1986.

Required: Reading week (Oct 12-18) 05 - Digital ghosts (Oct 19-25)

Required: 1. [short story] "Smile Dog13," Anonymous, at CreepyPasta, 28 April 2010.

Required: 2. [academic article] "'Spread the Word': Creepypasta, Hauntology, and an Ethics of the Curse," Line Henrikson, in University of Toronto Quarterly 87(1)

Required: 4. [news article] "What happens to our online identities when we die?14" Amelia

Required: Tait, The Guardian, 2 June 2019.

Required: 06 - Reading The Turn of the Screw (Oct 26-Nov 1)

Required: 1. [novella] "The Turn of the Screw," Henry James, 1900. [The complete text of the novella is included in the Beidler edition]

Required: 12 13 14

Required: 2. [book chapter] "Reader-Response Criticism and The Turn of the Screw" in Beidler, ed. pp. 271-301.

Required: 07 - The Spectres of Marx (Nov 2-8)

Required: 1. [book chapter] "Marxist Criticism and The Turn of the Screw" in Beidler, ed. pp. 360-389.

Required: 2. [podcast] "Reclaiming Marxism in an age of meaningless work15" CBC Ideas podcast, 14 June 2019. 54mins.

Required: 08 - The Haunted House of Gender (Nov 9-15)

Required: 1. [book chapter] "Gender Criticism and The Turn of the Screw" in Beidler, ed. pp.333-359.

Required: 2. [academic article] "Affecting Activist Art: Inside KillJoy’s Kastle, A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House16," Genevieve Flavelle in InVisible Culture 27, 28 November 2017.

Required: 3. [YouTube] "KillJoy's Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House17," 23 October 2015.

Required: 09 - The uncanny (Nov 16-22)

Required: 1. [book chapter] "Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Turn of the Screw" in Beidler, ed. pp. 302-332.

Required: 2. [podcast] "Wishful dreaming: Freud and the discovery of our inner life18" CBC Ideas podcast, 5 November 2019. 54mins.

Required: 10 - Beloved (Nov 23-29)

Required: 1. [ novel] Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987

Required: 15 16 6594-18 17 18

Required: 2. [academic article] "Black Feminist Hauntology19: Rememory the Ghosts of Abolition?" Viviane Saleh-Hanna in Champ Pénal/Penal Field 22, 2015.

Required: 3. [video] "Ellen Sebastian Chang and Amara Tabor Smith present 'HouseFull'" 8mins

Required: 11 - Ghostly matter: prisons (Nov 30-Dec 6)

Required: 1. [academic article] "Some Thoughts on Haunting and Futurity," Avery

Required: Gordon, Borderlands 10(2), 2011.

Required: 2. [podcast] "Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition20" two parts: 55min and 31min

Required: 12 - Haunted lands (Dec 7-13)

Required: 1. [film] Rhymes for Young Ghouls, **dir. Jeff Barnaby, 2014, 88mins.

Required: 2. / [poem and reading] "Jiibay or Aandizooke," Leanne Simpson

Required: 3. [academic article] "Glossary of haunting, " Eve Tuck and C. Ree, in The Handbook of Autoethnography, 2013.

Required: G. Important advice

Required: Read longer works ahead

Required: Read carefully and more than once

Required: H. Course Objectives and Policies