Literary Theory and Methodology for East Asian Literatures

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1 EALL 735 (CRN: 89548) Prof. Ming-Bao Yue Spring 2017 Moore 201 T 1:30 4 pm Ph: Moore 224 mingbao@hawaii.edu Literary Theory and Methodology for East Asian Literatures Objective: The goal of this course is to familiarize students with a wide range of theoretical approaches and methodologies useful, in general, to the study and teaching of literature and, in particular, East Asian literatures. The reading material and topics are arranged chronologically in order to provide students with a historical context of the philosophical trends and ideological currents that have shaped the study of literature as an interdisciplinary and transnational field of inquiry in the humanities. Areas of critical concerns that will be addressed throughout the course are: the development of literary criticism as a discipline in the Western world, contemporary revisions of ideology and their impact on the study of [East Asian] literatures in the US, the emergence of comparative literary studies, the role of comparative East-Asian literatures, the history of East Asian literary theory and criticism, the teaching of [East Asian] literatures in a Western or multicultural context, and the role of the East Asian literature teacher/scholar in US academia. NOTE: EALL 735 is also listed as an elective course in the ICSC-Program [International Cultural Studies Certificate Program) for Spring Requirements: No prerequisite in literary theory is required, however, basic knowledge will be helpful. Familiarity with the classical and/or modern literary traditions of English, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean literatures can be useful. Students are required to attend classes prepared to participate in discussion. Each student will be asked to lead off discussion at least twice during the term. No midterm and final examinations. A final take-home research/position paper of 15 pages due by May 11, Class-format: Colloquium style, short lectures interspersed with discussions and contributions from students. Coming to class well-prepared is crucial for a successful class session and completion of the course. Required Texts: This is a green course, which means it is paperless because all reading material are available as pdf. copies placed on our Laulima course Website. Some text (books) are available at UH Voyager as E-books that you can access directly through the library Website. Library copies of all textbooks will be on reserve at Wong AV: Terry Eagleton Introduction to Literary Theory [E-version available through Voyager] Patricia Waugh & Phillip Rice eds. Modern Literary Theory, 4 th edition Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory Roland Barthes The Empire of Signs (optional reading) Julia Kristeva About Chinese Women (optional reading)

2 Schedule of readings (subject to changes): Note on Abbreviations: MLT stands for Modern Literary Theory, CDPCT stands for Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. 1. week 01/17 Organizational meeting: Introduction of course/syllabus/requirements 2. week 01/24 The Politics of Area Studies/Asian Literatures as Minority Discourse Rey Chow The Politics of Teaching Asian Literatures Bruce Cummings Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies during and after the Cold War Pheng Cheah Universal Areas: Asian Studies in a World of Motion Naoki Sakai Dislocation of the West and the Status of Humanities. 3. week 01/31 The Rise/Function of Literary Criticism in the West Eagleton, Introduction and chapter One Catherine Belsey Criticism and Common Sense Paul DeMan Resistance to Theory (MLT essay#29) Naoki Sakai Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism 4. week 02/07 Reception Theories & Hermeneutics Eagleton, Chapter Two Wolfgang Iser, from The Reading Process & H.R. Jauss, from Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory Jane Tompkins The Reader in History: The Changing Shape of Literary Response Naoki Sakai Introduction: Writing for Multiple Audiences and the Heterolingual Address 5. week 02/14 Linguistics Approaches: Formalism And Beyond MLT essays# 3&5 (Saussure, Shklosvky) Fredric Jameson The Linguistic Model Tony Bennett Russian Formalism Lydia Liu The Problem of Language in Cross-Cultural Studies 6. week 02/21 Narrative Theories/Narratology Seymour Chatman Introduction from his Story and Discourse

3 Tzvetan Todorov Reading as Construction Marston Anderson The Morality of Form: Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Short Story Ken Ito Writing Time in Soseki s Kokoro 7. week 02/27 Literature As Ideology/Critical Literary Science MLT essays #13 (Balibar& Macherey), L. Althusser, from Ideology and the State T. Eagleton, from Criticism and Ideology Peter Bürger Preliminary Reflections on a Critical Literary Science M.A. Abbas Mao Tun s Silk Springworm : Rhetoric and Ideology 8. week 03/07 Discourse and the Social MLT essays# 27, 21, 45 (Bahktin, Foucault, Said,) Michel Foucault Introduction (from his Archaeology of Knowledge) (book is online) Johannes Fabian Time and the Emergent Other (book is online) Raymond Williams Hegemony and Traditions, Institutions, and Formations (book is online) Kojin Karatani The Discovery of Landscape 9. week 03/14 Structuralism & Semiotics Eagleton, chapter Three MLT essays#8, 18, (Barthes) & #19 (Lacan) Kaja Silverman, chapters One & Four Naoki Sakai Subject and/or Shutai and the Inscription of Cultural Difference 10. week 03/21 Feminism & Psychoanalysis Eagleton, chapter Five MLT essays# 14&22 (Showalter, Kristeva) Naomi Shor Gender: In the Academy Tonglin Lu Can Xue: What is so Paranoid in Her Writings? Julia Kristeva About Chinese Women (optional) 11. week 03/28 Spring Recess 12. week 04/04 Post-structuralism & Deconstruction MLT essays# 20&21(Derrida, Foucault) R. Barthes From Work to Text CDPCT, part I (Gayatri Spivak) Ming-Bao Yue Gendering the Origins of Modern Chinese Fiction 13. week 04/11 Postmodernism & Popular Culture MLT essay# 35(Waugh) Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

4 Andreas Huyssen Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism s Other Ien Ang Dallas and the Ideology of Mass Culture Rey Chow Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: An Exercise in Popular Readings Roland Barthes The Empire of Sign (optional) 14. week 04/18 Orientalism and Colonial Discourse CDPCT, part I, (Fanon, Cabral) CDPCT, part II (all) Serk-Bae Suh Treacherous Translation: the 1938 Japaneselanguage Version of the Korean Tale Ch unhyanggon Leo Ching Colonizing Taiwan: Japanese Colonialism, Decolonization, and the Politics of Colonialism Studies 14. week 04/25 Postcolonialism & Third Worldism MLT essay# 38 (Homi Bhabha) CDPCT part III (Suleri, Mohanty ) CDPCT part IV (Mishra & Hodge, McClintok, Loomba, Franco) Lisa Lowe The Desire of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel Quel Serk-Bae Suh, Translation and Its Postcolonial Discontents 15. week 05/02 Cultural Studies/Sinophone Studies & Asian Regionalism Raymond Williams Dominant, Residual, and Emergent and Structures of Feelings Kuan-Hsing Chen Asia as Method Shi Shumei What is Sinophone Studies? Rey Chow Things/Common/Places, Passages of the Port City: On Hong Kong and HK Author Leung Ping-Kwan Optional: Stuart Hall Cultural Studies and Theoretical Legacies (E- reserve) Paul Gilroy Cultural Studies and Ethnic Absolutism (Ereserve)

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