Department of French and Italian (EVENTS)

Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series (Prof. Proulx)

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory

Location

Levis 210

Date

Oct 7, 2025   6:15 - 6:45 pm  

Speaker

François Proulx

10/7  POST-STRUCTURALISM / Levis 210

François Proulx (French & Italian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

• Barthes, Roland. “La mort de l’auteur” (1968)

• Barthes, Roland. S/Z (1970), from “I. L’évaluation” to “XII. Le tissu des voix"

• Barthes, Roland. “Leçon” (1978)

• Barthes, Roland. “Introduction” (séance du 2 décembre 1978), and “Le Roman” (séance du 9 décembre 1978), from La Préparation du roman I (audio recordings also available: https://revue.roland-barthes.org/audio/

• Barthes, Roland. “Introduction” and “The Novel,” from The Preparation of the Novel, Lecture Courses and Seminars at the Collège de France, tr. Kate Briggs, Columbia University Press, 2010, p. 3-19.

• Sedgwick, Eve K. “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” from Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003)