Euripides' Bacchae, Translation and introduction Stephen J. Esposito. Newberry MA: Focus Publishing, 1998.

Shoshana Felman, WRITING AND MADNESS (LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS),

Stanford University Press, 1985/1994.

Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. New York: Random House, 1965/2003

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, (1979/2000) The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. Second Edition. Yale UP.

UNIT # 6.1, 6.2 (NC LIB: PR 115/ .G5 Copy on reserve)

Felman, Shoshana, What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. UNIT 3.2

O'Brien, Patricia, "Michel Foucault's History of Culture," 25-46 in Lynn Hunt's The New Cultural History, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1989.

UNIT 2.1 COPY ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE

[NC LIBRARY: HN 13 .N48 1989 COPY ON RESERVE]

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WEEK 1.1: TUESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2007

Introduction and Class Requirements. Presentation and discussion of paper topics and

Reading Assignments. Will send notices of acceptance to class.

FACILITATOR ASSIGNED FOR FRIDAY 9 FEBRUARY: MACKENZIE

Please post your responses on the Webboard by 5:00 pm Thur. 8 FEBRUARY

WEEK 1.2: FRIDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2007

Euripides, The Bacchae,

Read and be ready to discuss in class.

Some questions for discussion:

1. What is the character of Dionysus?

2. Characterize the differences between the two groups of Maenads

(Chorus from Asia and Theban women of the mountains)

3. Pentheus is hardly a sympathetic character but he does have a position he takes vis a vis the situation he finds upon his return to Thebes. From Pentheus' point of view as the King of Thebes what does he find and what does he propose to do about it?

4. While Gods appear in Greek Tragedies regularly, they usually appear only in the prologue or the epilogue, why do we have Dionysus speaking in the prologue, and the epilogue and also acting as a character within the drama?

What is the impact of this on our experience of the god?

5. Be prepared to discuss the various types of madness that are described or shown in the play.

WEEK 2.1: TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2007

O'Brien, Patricia, "Michel Foucault's History of Culture," 25-46 in Lynn Hunt's The New Cultural History, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1989. [COPY ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE UNIT #2.1]

Foucault, Madness and Civilization,

Chapter 1, "Stultifera Navis," 3-37;

Chapter 2, "The Great Confinement," 38-64;

Chapter 3, "The Insane," 65-84.

WEEK 2.3 WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 5:00-7:00 PM FILM IN PROJECTION ROOM

FILM: (1919) CABINET OF DR. CALAGARI 71 min. (Mackenzie 5.2)

WEEK 2.2 FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2007

Foucault, Madness and Civilization,

Chapter 4, "Passion and Delirium," 85-116;

Chapter 5, "Aspects of Madness," 117-158;

Chapter 6, "Doctors and Patients," 159-198.

WEEK 3.1 TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2007

Foucault, Madness and Civilization,

Chapter 7," The Great Fear," 199-220;

Chapter 8, "The New Division, 221-240;

Chapter 9, "The Birth of the Asylum," 241-278;

Conclusion, 279-290.

FILM: (1948) THE SNAKE PIT 108 min.

WEEK 3.2: FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2007

Felman, Writing and Madness,

Introduction, "Writing and Madness, or Why this Book?," 11-32;

Chapter 2, "Foucault/ Derrida: The Madness or the Thinking/Speaking Subject," 35-55.

Felman, What Does Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference,

Chapter 2, "Woman and Madness: The Critical Phallacy (Balzac, "Adieu")," 20- 40, in Baltimore and London: John Hopkins Press, 1993.

Electronic Reserve under unit #3.2

FACILITATOR ASSIGNED FOR 23 FEBRUARY: KATELAND

WEEK 4.1: TUESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2007

Felman, Writing and Madness,

Chapter 3, "Gérard de Nerval: Writing Madness or Madness as Autobiography," (Aurélia) 59-77;

Chapter 4, "Gustave Flaubert: Living Writing, or Madness as Cliche," ('Memories of a Madman, first draft of Sentimental Education) 78-100;

Chapter 5, 'Honore de Balzac: Madness, Ideology, and the Economy of Discourse," ("L'Illustre Gaudissart," in La Comédie humaine) 101-118.

FACILITATOR ASSIGNED FOR 27 FEBRUARY: CANDACE

WEEK 4.3 WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 5:00 PROJECTION ROOM

FILM: (1974) A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE 155 min.

WEEK 4.2: FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2007

Felman, Writing and Madness,

Chapter 6, "Jacques Lacan: Madness and the Risks of Theory (The Uses of Misprision), 119-140.

WEEK 5.1: TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2007

Felman, Writing and Madness,

Chapter 7, "Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)," 141-250;

Chapter 8, "Madness and the Literary: Toward the Question of the Book," 251-255.

FILM: (1977) EQUUS 145 min.

WEEK 5.2: FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2007 Continue Discussion of

Felman, Writing and Madness,

Chapter 7, "Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)," 141-250;

Chapter 8, "Madness and the Literary: Toward the Question of the Book," 251-255.

WEEK 6.1: TUESDAY 13 MARCH 2007

Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic,

Preface, xi-xiv;

Chapter 1, "The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity," 3-44;

Chapter 2, "Inflection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship," 45-92.

FILM: (1982) FITZCARRALDO 158 min.

WEEK 6.2: FRIDAY 16 MARCH 2007

NO CLASS --------CRIS AT CONFERENCE

WEEK 7.1: TUESDAY 20 MARCH 2007

Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic,

Chapter 10, "A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress,"(Jane Eyre) 336-371.

ASSIGNED FACILITATOR FOR 20 MARCH: ALBA

WEEK 7.2: FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2007: FILM

!!!! FILM: (1966) PERSONA 85 min. !!!!

PAPER DUE ON WEBBOARD: [LECTURE 1.2] KATELAND on "DORA"

WEEK 1.1 3 APRIL 2007 TUESDAY: LECTURE KATHLEEN ON " LITERATURE"

PLEASE POST ON CANDACE'S PAPER BY [1.2] FRIDAY 6 APRIL

WEEK 1.2 6 APRIL FRIDAY: LECTURE: KATELAND "CASE HISTORY/DORA"

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WEEK 2.2. 13 APRIL FRIDAY: LECTURE: ADELLA/ THE SNAKE PIT (WEEK 3)

PAPER DUE ON WEBBOARD FOR [LECTURE 3.2] JACKIE "HOUSE OF INCEST"

WEEK 3.1 17 APRIL 2007 TUESDAY: LECTURE: PERSEPHONE/YAKOI KUSAMA'S INFINITY NETS

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WEEK 4.1 24 APRIL 2007 TUESDAY: LECTURE: CHRISSY GINSBERG'S "HOWL"

WEEK 4.2 27 APRIL FRIDAY: LECTURE: ALBA ON "WOMEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE" (Week 4)

WEEK 5.1 1 MAY 2007 TUESDAY: LECTURE: MISHA Film: "EQUUS" (WEEK 5)

WEEK 6.1 8 MAY TUESDAY: LECTURE: SAMANTHA Film: "FITZCARRALDO" (WEEK 6)

WEEK 6.2 11 MAY FRIDAY: LECTURE: