The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry
ENGL 320
Spring 2023
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 304, FGSS 310 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: Disability Studies, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
In this course, we will study a mixture of emotionally stimulating and structurally difficult contemporary cinema and lyric poetry, as well as select philosophical and theoretical approaches to the senses and the subject. Do theories and notions of the senses assume the subject, and/or subjectivity? If so, then how? What is the relationship between embodiment, the senses, the world, racialization, blackness, and being? How do select Western theoretical, aesthetic, and poetic frameworks represent and think as such? While cinema and lyric poetry might seem like strange neighbors, this course specifically foregrounds them as "repositor[ies] of synesthesia," where not only the reconstitution of the subject after some disturbance (i.e., sensorial, physiological, social, historical, etc.) will be relevant to how we read, but also when that either does not happen or constitutively cannot happen. (Note that some short fiction may also be part of the course readings.) |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(CSCT)(ENGL) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
A selection of the following: Jamaica Kincaid, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Colin Dayan, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Chantal Ackerman, Haile Gerima, Ousmane Sembene, Sara Gómez, Agnès Varda, Abderrahmane Sissako, Charles Burnett, Michael Haneke, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, Isaac Julien, Manthia Diawara, Jean Rouch, Maya Deren, John Akomfrah, Marlon Riggs, Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Robert Hayden, Tracy K. Smith, Eduardo Corral, Aimé Césaire, José Lezama Lima, Dionne Brand, Claudia Rankine, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, Frantz Fanon. Books will be ordered at RJ Julia bookstore and the theoretical essays and some poems for the course will be bound in a Course Pack.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short essay (close-reading assignment), sound/multi-media experiment, footnote/endnote project (will prepare student for research essay), research essay. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: LH3, WL, Theory, elective |
| Instructor(s): Ellis Neyra,Ren Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: DWNY113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 9 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 5 |
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