Text Box: FMA 1202F: Heroism and Society Seminar Notes Seminar 1 notes Seminar 2 notes Seminar 3 notes Seminar 4 notes Seminar 5 notes Seminar 6 notes Seminar 7 notes (No notes for seminars 8-10 - those sessions devoted to presentations and discussions) Seminar 11 notes Seminar 12 notes   Suggested Readings: There are no compulsory secondary readings for this module, the idea being to pursue your own readings as your interests develop and as your ideas take you.  The following texts are just some suggestions, organized topically so that you can have a bit more structured reading according to some of the ideas I raise during class.  I stress that you are free to follow your own reading interests instead of following any of the suggestions below; or else you might start with some of the suggestions below and then pursue more readings on that topic if the topic really interests you.  The point is that Freshman Seminar facilitates and allows for you to pursue your own particular interests by “taking off” from points made during class.  So the “suggested readings” are really that: suggestions. Ideas of the Hero in Society: Campbell, Joseph  The Hero with a Thousand Faces Campbell, Joseph  The Power of Myth Aristotle  The Poetics Plato  The Republic Frye, Northrop  Anatomy of Criticism Frye, Northrop  Jungian Literary Criticism Auerbach, Nina  Our Vampires, Ourselves Praz, Mario  The Romantic Agony Frazer, J. G. The Golden Bough Sagall, Robert A.  Literary Criticism and Myth Mark, Margaret  The Hero and the Outlaw Kittelson, Mary Lynn (ed)  The Soul of Popular Culture   Critical Theory/Methods General Jefferson, Ann and David Robey (ed)  Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction Lentricchia, Frank and Thomas McLaughlin (ed)  Critical Terms for Literary Study Abrams, M. H.  A Glossary of Literary Terms   Marxism Jameson, Fredric  Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels, Marx and Engels on Literature and Art Eagleton, Terry  Marxism and Literary Criticism   Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund  Totem and Taboo Kristeva, Julia  Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Bataille, Georges  Theory of Religion   Gender/Masculinity/Ethnicity Kestner, Joseph A.  Sherlock’s Men: Masculinity, Conan Doyle, and Cultural History Yoshihara, Mari  Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism Wilson, C and F Gutierrez  Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media Cunningham, S and J. Sinclair (ed)  Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas   Structuralism/Semiotics/Media Lodge, David  The Modes of Modern Writing Goffman, Erving  Gender Advertisements Goldman, Robert  Reading Ads Socially Jhally, Sut  The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society Barthes, Roland  Empire of Signs Eco, Umberto  The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts   Historical/Sociological Jann, Rosemary  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order Amis, Kingsley  The James Bond Dossier Perry, Lewis  Boats Against the Current: American Culture Between Revolution and Modernity, 1820-1860 Green, Martin  Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire     A Couple of My Related Publications (in case you want to see my methodology—NOT required or even recommended reading!  But they might give you a sense of how I approach issues like popular culture, the constructions of race and identity in society) Goh, Robbie B. H. "Peter O’Donnell, Race Relations and National Identity: The Dynamics of Representation in 1960s and 1970s Britain." Journal of Popular Culture 32: 4 (1999), 29-43. Goh, Robbie B. H. "Consuming Spaces: Clive Barker, William Gibson and the Cultural Poetics of Postmodern Fantasy." Social Semiotics 10:1 (2000), 21-40. Goh, Robbie B. H.  "Reading Holmes: Capital and the Sign of the Market in The Hound of the Baskervilles." Semiotica 160-1/4 (2006), 95-114. Goh, Robbie B. H.  "Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection and Exchange."  Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representations, ed. Robbie B. H. Goh and Shawn Wong.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004, pp. 33-52. Goh, Robbie B. H.  “Cyberasian: Science, Hybridity, Modernity, and the Asian Body.”  Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality, and Hybridity, ed. Yiu-Wai Chu and Eva Kit-Wah Man.  Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.