Notes for 28 January 2016

LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016

• Presentation: Steenalisa Tilcock
  • Handout here.
• Follow-up discussion on Foucalt
  • Questions, if Steenalisa doesn't bring them up:
    • What is Foucault's notion of power?
    • Is it plausible? Is this how you conceptualize power? Is this how we generally conceptualize power?
    • Where have we seen variable power relationships in course texts so far? How can we construct Foucauldian readings of these texts?
    • Why does Foucault wait to this part of the book to produce a generalized analysis of power?
• Back to Seamus Heaney
  • Notes here.
  • My preferences, if no one else expresses any:
    • Narratives of women's lives, and how narrative structures life: Clearances.
    • Violence and signifying women's bodies in the bog poems.
    • Where is power seen in these poems?
• Today's whiteboard snapshots
  • None tonight.