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WEEK 13 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read:

  • The “Introduction” of Jim Cullen’s book The American Dream
  • Harold Bloom’s The American Dream (traces the theme throughout U.S. literature)
Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:46 μ.μ.
WEEK 11 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read:

  • The “Introduction” and the “Conclusion” of Paul Reddin’s book Wild West Shows
  • Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”
Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:45 μ.μ.
WEEK 12 

Note: To help you prepare, you may watch the following films:

  • Jefferson in Paris (1995), Dir. James Ivory. Starring Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Lincoln (2012), Dir. Steven Spielberg. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:45 μ.μ.
WEEK 10 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read the “Vigilantism,” “The Cowboy as a Bad Guy” and “The Cowboy as a Good Guy” subchapters of Chapter 3 of Rebecca Stefoff’s book American Voices from the Wild West

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:44 μ.μ.
WEEK 8 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read a chronicle of the Western expansion and its related issues in http://www.historynet.com/westward-expansion

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:43 μ.μ.
WEEK 9 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read the Chapter “Astral America” from Jean Baudrillard’s America

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:43 μ.μ.
WEEK 7 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read Judith Butler, Chapter I from Gender Trouble

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:42 μ.μ.
WEEK 6 

Note: Nothing can really help you prepare against Melville’s “whale of a tale,” but you may read some of the available online guides on the symbolism of Moby-Dick just for the old college try…

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:41 μ.μ.
WEEK 5 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read:

  • Barbara Creed, “Introduction” and “Chapter I” from The Monstrous-Feminine
  • Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”
Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:40 μ.μ.
WEEK 4 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams Chapter V "The Material and Sources of Dreams"

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:27 μ.μ.
WEEK 3 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read Sacvan Bercovitch, “Preface” from The Puritan Origins of the American Self

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 6:03 μ.μ.
WEEK 2 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read:
Judith Nies, “Introduction” from Native American History

Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 5:53 μ.μ.
WEEK 1 

Note: To help you prepare, you may read:

  • Carl Gustav Jung, “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry”
  • Bruno Bettelheim, “Introduction” from The Uses of Enchantment
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth”
Έναρξη: 10/3/15, 4:55 μ.μ.