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CRT4280

Narrative theory

Proposed to be offered next in 1996

CRT4290

Reading Irigaray

Elizabeth Grosz

8 or 12 points * 2 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton

This subject examines the work of one of the more difficult and rewarding of the key figures in contemporary French thought, the psychoanalyst, philosopher and linguist, Luce Irigaray. The subject involves a detailed reading of the key texts of Irigaray, from her earliest publications in 1974 to her current writings. Irigaray has published broadly in a number of academic disciplines (including psychology, psychoanalysis, European philosophy, literature and linguistics) and covered a range of different issues (from questions in ontology and epistemology to key issues in economic exchange and theology). The subject will provide a rudimentary intellectual context to Irigaray's work, and then proceed chronologically from her earliest writings through to her most recent.

Assessment: 8 points

Two essays (3000 words)

Assessment: 12 points

Two essays (4500 words)

Prescribed texts

Irigaray L Speculum of the other woman Cornell UP, 1985

Irigaray L This sex which is not one Cornell UP, 1985

Irigaray L Marine lover, of Freidrich Nietzsche

Irigaray L Sexes and genealogies

Irigaray L Je, tous, nous

Irigaray L Elemental passions

Irigaray L An ethics of sexual difference

Whitford M (ed) The Irigaray reader

Whitford M Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the feminine

Burke C, Schor N and Whitford M (eds) Engaging Irigaray

Grosz E Sexual subversions: three French feminists Allen and Unwin, 1989



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