ENGL 6553

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ENGL 6553
Erotics of Instruction

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Instruction is a sensual experience with innumerable orientations: teaching, learning, analyzing, interrogating, suspecting, lecturing, suggesting, introducing, initiating, mentoring, indoctrinating, exhibiting, proving, disproving, discrediting, discovering, disavowing, and always, always discussing. We will discuss a range of classic texts on the relation of pleasure, power, and knowledge in the erotics of instruction, inside the classroom and out. We will begin with Plato's Symposium and trace its reimagination and critique through psychoanalytic, deconstructive, feminist, and queer theory. In this framework, we will explore works of erotic philosophy by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, David Halperin, Jane Gallop, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, among others, as well as related works of contemporary cinema. 

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LGBT 6553

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15535 ENGL 6553   SEM 101

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