Make sure to look through the entire document and read the instructions carefully. TEST: WRITE ABOUT ONE OF THE COURSE TOPICS WE HAVE DISCUSSED IN CLASS (see the list below). The point of your essay is to summarize key concepts (and writers contributions) for the categories of critical theory we have studied thus far. You should the key points from the Malpas and Wake book chapter and then link that information to the content of specific essays we discussed in class. This test is intended to provide the opportunity to reflect on how well you have the material. You should, therefore, focus on your ideas and the material rather than compiling an encyclopedic list of random factsor new research you conducted on the internet. Please make sure to organize your comments within paragraphs and include an introduction and conclusion. Your essay should be TWO-TO-THREE pages of typed, double-spaced text (12-pt. font). If you include direct quotes from the reading, please use quotation marks and cite your source using MLA style (in text citations are fine for this assignment). You may use your notes and books/essays to answer the questions. You may also refer to information in the Malpas and Wake introduction (pp. 3-11) to help you structure your comments. Possible topics for your essay (write about only ONE topic, ONE textbook chapter and ONE essay in the list): Simon Malpas and Paul Wake, [hereafter Malpas and Wake], pp. 12-22. De Saussure, Ferdinand, sections from General Principles in Course in General Linguistics, pp. 65-78 (archive.org). Roland Barthes, Myth Today in Mythologies (New York: The Noonday Press, 1990), pp. 109-159. [Blackboard] Malpas and Wake, pp. 37-50 (on Marxism) Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, in The Dialectics of Enlightenment (1944) Malpas and Wake, pp. 96-106. Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, v. 16, no. 3 (Autumn 1975): 6-18. [for grads] Jennifer Stuller, Second Wave Feminism in the Pages of Lois Lane, in (2012), pp. 235-251. [for undergrads] Malpas and Wake, pp. 107-119 Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination, in , ed. by Henry Abelove et al. London: Routledge, 1993. [for grads] Gareth Schott, From Fan Appropriation to Industry Re-Appropriation: The Sexual Identity of Comic Superheroes, , v. 1, no. 1 (June 2010): 17-29. [for undergrads] Malpas and Wake, pp. 131-143 Aja Martinez, Critical Race Theory: Its Origins, history, and Importance to the Discourses and Rhetorics of Race, 27, 2 (November 2014): 9-27. John D. Miles, The Postindian Rhetoric of Gerald Vizenor, [ ] 63, 1 (Sept. 2011): 35-53. Jessie Whitehead, Invisibility of Blackness: Visual Response of Kerry James Marshall, (March 2009): 33-39.
