Discussion Leading

As part of your intellectual participation, I will ask each of you to "master" a term and come to class prepared to discuss how it relates to our topic throughout the session. While I am not asking you to give a formal presentation, or to hand anything in, I am asking you to deliver some substantive comments on how that term illuminates our questions and concerns, which may require sharing notes on the board or giving a small impromptu demonstration. Sometimes, the connection of your term to our class discussion may seem obvious and explicit. Sometimes, the connection may seem inferential and implicit. Sometimes, you won't find your exact term in a particular glossary, and you will have to put several related concepts together in order to arrive at a single definition. In all of these cases, your term should reveal something useful about the social, historical, or linguistic contexts of what we read. We are not relying on you to provide us with a reductive or generic definition of your term. We are relying on you to help us understand how the nuances of your term can both complicate and intensify our reading of the text.

I have randomly assigned the following terms and scheduled them for particular dates in our syllabus:

alterity (4/9 with Gates) - Karla Bennaton / Dr. Graban
class (3/26 with Mitchell) - Shane Williams / Alexandra Weinstock
deconstruction (2/12 with Derrida) - Jordan Berns / Natalia Bravo
dialectic and/or dialectical criticism (1/20 with Barthes) - Katharine Vera / Valeria Vargas
dialogic criticism (2/17 with Bakhtin) - Daphne Britt / Haley Bryant
dialectical materialism (4/14 with Favro) - Kelshay Toomer and Mikaela McShane / Dr. Graban
diaspora (4/9 with Cooper and Johnson) - Cailyn Callaway / Julie Trinh
differend and/or differance (2/12 with Derrida) - Samantha Markey / Dillon Cole
ecocriticism (1/29 with Welling) - MarCherie Thompkins
écriture féminine (4/16 with Butler) - Peter Strobis / Morgan Crawford
episteme and/or epistemology (1/20 with Foucault) - Max Castillo / Daniel Szyszka
erasure (1/29 with Barton) - Samantha Stamps
feminist criticism (1/27 with Campbell) - Vanessa Coppola / Chelsea Daubar
gynocriticism (4/16 with Butler) - Andrew Small / Jasmine Spitler
hegemony (4/9 with Gates) - Alexandra Dishman / Claire Davis
heteroglossia (2/17 with Bakhtin) - Jacqueline Sirianni / Erin Schwartz
hybridity (3/31 with Hum) - Kiernan Doyle / Sarah Davis
identification (4/7 with Burke) - Brian Shipe / Kristin Pittman
implied author and reader (1/22 with Ong) - Scott Drew / Madison Doher
intertextuality (1/20 with Barthes) - Isabella Senzamici
langue vs. parole (2/17 with Bakhtin) - Jessica Gonzalez / Donald Debevoise
logocentrism and/or phallogocentrism (2/19 with Burke) - Sara Schluender / Ashley Natareno
Marxism and/or Marxist criticism (3/26 with Mitchell) - Morgan Jantzen / Jiana Estes
meiosis (3/26 with Mitchell) - Juliana Rodriguez
phenomenology (3/5 with Longinus) - Addison Kane / Kathryn Leal
postcolonialism (4/9 with Cooper and Johnson) - Daphne Britt / Allyn Farach
race (3/31 with Hum) - Kellion Knibb / Caitlin Lang
reader-response criticism (3/24 with Landow) - Jessica Robayo / Joelle Garcia
sign and/or signification (2/5 with Locke) - Dina Kratzer / Taylor Kincaid
socialist realism (2/24 with McCloud) -  Sam Raley / Valerie Gardner
speech act theory (2/10 with Lakoff and Johnson) - Anjelica Macgregor / Koral Griggs
structuralism (3/24 with Landow) -  Thomas Okuniewski / Phillip Gifford
stylistics (3/5 with Longinus Burroughs) - Matt Mangiaracina / Kayla Gonzalez
symbol and/or symbolic action (2/19 with Burke) - Samantha Oellrich / Kayla Goldstein

One more thing! These are the texts I expect you to consult:

and if you feel like you need more background, any of the following texts at Strozier Library will be helpful (yes -- that means you would need to go there):
  • A Glossary of Literary Terms, 9th Edition (eds. M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham), in Strozier reference
  • The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (eds. Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi), in Strozier reference
  • Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age (ed. Theresa Enos), in Strozier reference
  • Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries (William A. Covino and David A. Jolliffe), Strozier 4th floor

If you want to use an additional source, please clear it with me ahead of time. While they have great merit on their own, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and search engines are not sufficient by themselves for this task (although they might be able to enhance the other sources above).

-Prof. Graban
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