Reading List 2009-2010  
 

FALL, WINTER AND SPRING 2009/2010 SESSIONS

 

Core Seminars

Elective Courses

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Interpretation, Values and the Humanities (HUMA 5116)

 

*Required text

  • Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
  • Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space.  (?): Beacon Press, 1994.
  • Bal, Mieke. Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1992.
  • Breton, Andre. Manifestoes of Surrealism. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1994.
  • Buber, Martin. Tales of the Hasidim. New York: Schocken, 1991.
  • Chomsky, Noam.  Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use.  New York: Preager,
  • Clark, Virginia P. and alias. Language: Introductory Readings. New York:  St. Martin’s, 1994.
  • Cobley, Evelyn.  Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives. Toronto:  U of Toronto Press, 1996.
  • Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.)
  • Gilligan, Carol.  In a Different Voice. Cambridge and London: Harvard UP, 1993.
  • Eco, Umberto. Eco, A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.
  • Fackenheim, Emil L. Metaphysics and Historicity. Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 1961.
  • *Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought, Albert Hofstadter (trans.). New York: HarperCollins (Perennial Classics): 2001.
  • Hofstadter, Albert & Richard Kuhns, ed. Philosophies of Art & Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1976.
  • Hölderlin, Friedrich. Selected Poems and Fragments. Oxford: Penguin Classics, 1998.
  • ---, Poems & Fragments, Michael Hamburger (trans.). (?): Anvil Press, 2004.
  • Kant, Immanuel. The Ctitique of Judgement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952.
  • Keagan, John. The Battle for History. Toronto: Vintage, 1995.
  • Kristeva, Julia.  Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia UP, 1982.
  • Lattimer, Richmond, trans. The Odyssey of Homer. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.
  • Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1980.
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude.  Myth and Meaning. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
  • *Libeskind, Daniel.  Breaking Ground: An Immigrant’s Journey from Poland to Ground Zero. New York: Riverhead, 2005.
  • Martin, Russell.  The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece that changed the World. New York: Dutton, 2002.
  • Miller, Jerome A.  The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis. Washington: Georgetown UP, 1988.
  • O’Grady, William and Michael Dobrovolsky (ed.).  Contemporary Linguistic Analysis:  An Introduction. Third Edition. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1996.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy. New York: Dover, 1995.
  • Pearsall, Marilyn. Women and Values.  Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993.
  • Preston, Paul. A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War. London: Fontana, 1996.
  • Puglisi, Luigi Prestinenza. Hyperarchitecture: Spaces in the Electronic Age. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1999.
  • Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. Experiencing Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975.
  • Roth, Joseph.  What I saw: Reports form Berlin 1920-1933. New York: Norton, 2003.
  • White, Hayden.  ‘The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality.” On Narrative. Ed. W.J.T. Mitchell. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1981, 1-21.
  • Young, James E.  At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

 

 

Methods for Reading the World:  Bibliography / Research Course (HUMA 5117)

  • Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva. Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons. U of Toronto P, 2008.
  • Howsam, Leslie. Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture. U of Toronto P, 2006.
  • McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge UP, 1999.

 

Recommended Texts

  • MLA Handbook. 7th ed.PMLA, 2009.

 

Hermeneutics (HUMA 5206)

  • G. Deleuze, Nietzsche & Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 1983.
  • J. Derrida, Of Grammatology, Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.
  • H.-G. Gadamer, Truth and Method, Crossroad, 1988
  • J. Grondin, Sources of Hermeneutics, SUNY Press, 1995.
  • J. Grondin, The Philosophy of Gadamer, Continental European Philosophy, 2003.
  • J. Habermas, “The Hermeneutic Approach” in On the Logic of the Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.
  • J. Habermas, “On Hermeneutics’ Claim to Universality”, in  K. Muller-Vollmer (Ed.), The Hermeneutics Reader, Blackwell, 1986.
  • M. Heidegger, Being and Time, SUNY Press, 1996.
  • M. Heidegger, Ontology. The Hermeneutics of Facticity, Indiana UP, 1999.
  • D. Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology, Routledge, 2000.
  • F. Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations, Cambridge UP, 1983.
  • D.P. Michelfelder & R.E. Palmer (Eds), Dialogue and Deconstruction. The Gadamer-Derrida Debate, SUNY Press, 1989.
  • P. Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, 3 vol., Uni. of Chicago Press, 1984.

 

Interpretation and Moral Values (HUMA 5226)

  • Edward Said, Orientalism, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present,
  • Frederick Cooper and Ann Stoler, Tensions of Empire, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe, and
  • Uday Mehta, Liberalism and Empire.

 

Cultural and Cross-Cultural Interpretations (HUMA 5236)

  • The final texts for the course are still being determined, but a full reading list will be available in September.

 

 

Identity Formations (HUMA 5306)

 

To be determined by instructor. Here is an example of possible readings:

  • Hacking, I. The Social Construction of What?  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  • Foucault, M. The Birth of Biopolitics. Trans G. Burchell. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
  • Hayles, N. K. How We Became Post-Human. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  • Munro, A. “Boys and Girls”. In Dance of the Happy Shades. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1968, pp. 111-128.

 

Ethics, Rhetoric and Literature (HUMA 5316)

 

To be determined by instructor. Here is an example of possible readings:

  • Attridge, Derek. “Innovation, Literature, Ethics: Relating to the Other,” PMLA. 114. 1 (January 1999): 20-31.
  • Critchley, Simon. The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
  • The Critical Review. Special Topic Issue: Renegotiating Ethics: Essays Towards a New Ethical Criticism. 33 (1993).
  • Booth, Wayne. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
  • Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. edited by Paul Schlicke. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1998. (Oxford World=s Classic)
  • Eaglestone, Robert. Ethical Criticism: Reading after Levinas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997.
  • Goldberg, S. L. Agents and Lives: Moral thinking in literature. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
  • Harpham, Geoffrey. Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
  • Lawrence, D. H. “Art and Morality”, “Morality and the Novel”, “Why the Novel Matters”, “John Galsworthy,” Phoenix. Ed. Edward McDonald. New York: Viking, 1936.
  • Leavis, F. R.. AThe Novel as Dramatic Poem (I): Hard Times.@ Scrutiny. XIV. No. 3 (Spring 1947): 185-203.
  • Levinas, Emmanuel. “Reality and its Shadow,” in The Levinas Reader. Ed. Sean Hand.  Cambridge: Blackwell, 1989. 129-43.
  • Miller, J. Hillis. The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin. New York: Columbia UP, 1987.
  • Newton, Adam Zachary. Narrative Ethics. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.
  • Nussbaum, Martha. Poetic Justice. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995 (especially chapter on Dickens=s Hard Times.)
  • Parker, David. “The Turn to Ethics in the 1990s,” The Critical Review. 33 (1993): 3-14.
  • PMLA. Special Topic issue: Ethics and Literary Study. 114, 1 (January 1999).
  • Robinson, Ian. The Survival of English.  Cambridge: CUP, 1973.
  • Rorty, Richard. Consequences of Pragmatism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.
  • Whalley, George. Studies in Literature and the Humanities: Innocence of Intent. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1985.

 

Past and Present Forms of Belief (HUMA 5376)

  • Nietzsche, “The Madman”
  • Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited
  • Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (CoursePack excerpts: “Introduction,” The Immanent Frame,” “Dilemmas”)
  • Ivan Illich, The Rivers North of the Future
  • Martha Nussbaum, “Compassion: The Basic Social Emotion” (CoursePack)
  • Dostoevsky, “Rebellion” and “The Grand Inquisitor” (CoursePack)
  • Albert Camus, The Fall
  • Flannery O’Connor, “The Lame Shall Enter First” (CoursePack)

 

Memory and Imagination (HUMA 5386)

 

To be determined by instructor. Here is an example of possible readings for a course that would focus on “Utopia”:

  • K. Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia. An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge, Harvest Books, 1955.
  • Jameson, F. (2005). Archaeologies of the Future. The Desire called Utopia and other Science Fictions, NY/London, Verso.
  • L.T. Sargent and R. Schaer (Ed.), Utopia. The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World, Oxford UP, 2001.
  • M. Hardt & T. Negri, Empire, Harvard UP, 2001.
  • E. Bloch, The Principle of Hope (3 vol.) MIT Press, 1995.
  • F. Moltmann, Theology of Hope, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1993.

 

Art, Thought, Society (HUMA 5406)

  • Pirandello, Luigi.  On Humor.  University of North Carolina Press, 1974
  • Pirandello, Luigi.  One, Nione and a Hundred Thousand.  Kessinger Publishing, 2005.
  • Pirandello, Luigi.  The Late Mattia Pascal.  New York Review of Books, 2004.
  • Cervantes, Miguel.  Don Quixote.  Harpercollins Publishers, 2003.
  • Manzoni, Alessandro.  I Promessi Sposi: The Betrothed.  Kessinger Publishing, 2004.
  • Svevo, Italo.  Zeno’s Conscience.  Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2001.

 

 
 
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