Notes for 14 January 2016
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
LITCS 114
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Presentation: Hannah Atkinson, parts I & II of Foucault's The History of Sexuality, vol. 1
- Also on Foucault...
- What is Foucault's general methodology?
- How are the boundaries of discourse constructed?
- What can/cannot be said?
- Ways in which language and power are tied together?
- What about the
incitement to discourse
?
- Is Foucault correct about the ways that the scientificization of sexuality produces
perversions
?
- What other domains can this general methodology be applied to?
- The linkage between the various elements of
sexuality
...
- Back to Chopin...
- Returning to a conversation from last time: how is Edna's experience biologized? How is it assumed that her gender inflects her actions and their meaning?
- How is the division of household labor accomplished in The Awakening?
- How does gender connect to class in this novel?
- How does her biological sex condition her life? How is this different from how her gender structures her life?
- What is Edna's experience of sexual desire in the novel? How does she understand it? How is it presented to the reader?
- How is this connected to a general structure of desire?
- Today's whiteboard snapshots