Writing and Materiality
Peter Stallybrass profile
R 9-12
This course will focus upon conceptions of "matter," with particular attention to clothes as the site of intersection between "subject" and "object." Our aim will be to examine the historical and cultural transformations of things both in terms of economic production and in terms of love and desire. Texts for the course will include:
ed. David McLellan, Karl Marx: Selected Writings
Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought
Jacques Derrida, The Truth in Painting
Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman
Samuel Richardson, Pamela
William Shakespeare, Lear
Primo Levi, If This Is A Man
updated 2006-10-05
