Theories of Addiction (A függőség elméletei) in autumn 2009
Timár Andrea,
Thu 11:30–13:00,
R5 347,
host: DES (R338)
description & set texts
1. Introduction
2. Derrida: The Rhetoric of Drugs (+ Culler: from Deconstruction)
3. Coleridge I. (+ Berridge: from Opium and the People)
4. Coleridge II. (+ Youngquist: from Monstrosities)
5. De Quincey: Confessions f an English Opium Eater (+ Schmitt: Narrating National Addictions: De Quincey, Opium, and Tea)
6. Sedgwick: Epidemics of the Will; Reith: Consumption and its Discontents: Addiction, Identity, and the Problems of Freedom
7. Benjamin: Some Motifs in Baudelaire, The Flâneur
8. Flaubert: Madame Bovary
9. Marder: Trauma, Addiction, and Temporal Bulimia in Madame Bovary, Madame Bovary’s Perversion of Death
10. Dostoyevsky: The Gambler
11. Boothroyd: Cinematic Heroin and Narcotic Modernity; Burroughs: Introduction to Naked Lunch
12. essays due + DVD: Aranofsky: Requiem for a Dream
13. marks
requirements & assessment
not supplied by teacher