Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 665G - The Gaze
| Effectivity: | 08/20/2007 - 12/15/2007 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr sum |
| Short Title: | The Gaze |
| Description: | This seminar will focus on the concept of the gaze in recent theory and criticism. The gaze is central to a number of theoretical and critical projects, including psychoanalysis; Foucaultian studies of discipline, power, and knowledge; feminist theory; and feminist film theory. Topics and texts to be covered include scopophilia in Freud, Lacan's "The Mirror Stage" and The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, the panopticon in Foucault's Discipline and Punish, the glance and the gaze in his Birth of the Clinic, and feminist analyses of the gaze in gendered power relations. In addition to these primary figures, we will read work by Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec, and Bruce Fink on Lacan and such feminist film theorists as Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doane, Tonya Modleski, and Kaja Silverman. Selected literary works and films will serve as illustrations. Requirements: active preparation and class participation, one 8-page paper around midterm, a term paper of approximately 20 pages, and a limited number of informal presentations. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
