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CONTENTS
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documents on these pages you can download and open in a word format, or you may
send me a request by e mail to me at this link. All articles may be used for personal
reference but must on no account be copied and distributed without my knowledge
or permission.
Current Research:
Structure, Sign and Play:
the website for the workshop, Forty Years of Structure, Sign and Play, to be held on 23-24 April
2007.
Lemmata: An Electronic Journal on Frameworks, Disciplines and
Institutions.
This electronic e journal site is currently under construction. The first issue will appear in
September. Go to the following
link for notices and details of the advisory board: Lemmata.
Perpetuating Cities:
the website for the workshop Perpetuating Cities, which was held on
June 8 and 9 2001; two volumes have since been published: Postcolonial
Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes. Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips
and Wei-Wei Yeo (New York: Routledge, 2003); and Beyond Description: Space Historicity
Singapore. Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo (London:
Routledge, 2004).
City as Target:
the website for the City as Target workshop that was held on 20-21 August 2004.
Angel:
Reading the Postcard: as Promised, the
preliminary and introductory remarks towards reading Jacques Derrida’s “Envois”
(from The Post
Card) have built towards a more engaged reading, now called “Angel.”
Links to entries on the Literary Encyclopedia
Courses:
Go to the current
course pages below:
Advanced Critical
Reading (EN 6102): These pages are dedicated to the Core Course, EN 6102,
for Research Students in Literary Studies.
Topics in Cultural
Studies (EN 5882): These pages are dedicated to the Topics in Cultural
Studies.
Critical Theory
(EN 4242): These pages are dedicated to the current version of the Critical
Theory Course EN 4242.
Shakespeare (EN
3226): These pages are dedicated to the level 3000 Shakespeare Course: EN
3226. You can also consult Yong Li
Lan’s Web Site (Yong Li Lan).
Topics in the
Twentieth Century: Modernism (EN 4224): This page contains the course
outline and reading lists for EN 4224, as well as links to lectures and public
web sites relating to Modernism.
Introduction
to Cultural Studies: GEK1046: This page contains the course outline and
reading lists for GEK1046, as well as links to lectures and public web sites relating
to Cultural Studies (or if you have a password go on to the IVLE).
Miscellaneous Links:
Standards:
If you want to know how to write an A grade essay, this is the place to go.
Absolute Difference:
You will still find lots of materials there if you don’t mind the Angelfire
advertising.
Bergen:
Picture courtesy of Barnard Turner
Links:
These links have recently been updated and are now on the main course web
pages. They feature pages
that may be of use to anyone interested in critical and cultural theory,
modernism and postmodernism, continental philosophy and other related topics.
There you will also find the usual links to web dictionaries, encyclopedias and
glossaries.
Time Warp:
Look and listen! Dr Phillips performs with his combo at
the London Vortex, 1977.
Commentaries and Articles:
The following
pages provide articles, with many web page links, on key issues, terms and
thinkers in critical and cultural theory:
LITERARY THEORY
The
Statement and the Enunciation
Who is the
subject of Enunciation?
BACKGROUND TO CRITICAL THEORY
Martin
Heidegger (life and work)
SIGNIFICATION
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Jacques Lacan,
Language and Sexuality
Bibliography for
Psychoanalysis
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Structure, Sign
and Play (Jacques Derrida)
Différance
(Jacques Derrida)
Semiology and Rhetoric
(Paul de Man)
Power/Knowledge
(Michel Foucault)
Deconstruction
(Jacques
Derrida)
Overdetermination
(Sigmund Freud and Derrida)
JACQUES DERRIDA
Lemmata: an
expanded version of the text of a talk about deconstruction.
MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Lectures
on Modernism (all the Modernism lectures and lecture notes)
Out the Window
on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd.”
Postmodernism
& Postcolonialism
The Contemporary: the decelerating logic of the avant-garde
The
article includes a brief commentary on the SENI festival for which this paper
was commissioned.
POPULAR
CULTURE
TV References
and Web Page Links
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
Through
Windows: The White Dawn of Modernity:
Situating Klein:
this paper, presented at the MLA in 1998 for the panel The Psychoanalysis of Winnicott and Klein in Literature and Theory,
is also about two other greats (in different idioms): Immanuel Kant and John
Coltrane.
Halliday's Handshake:
a version of the paper written for the 26th ISFC in July 1999.
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