PhD Concentration Lists

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Concentration Lists
Visual cultures and technologies. Courses in film, urbanism, new media, performance
Richard Schechner, Performance Theory, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2003.
Victor Turner, From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play, Performing Arts Journal
Publications , 1982
Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, La folie de voir. De l’esthétique baroque, Gallilée, 1986
Hamou, Philippe, La vision perspective (1435-1740) : L'art et la science du regard, de la
Renaissance à l'âge classique, Payot, 2007
Hénin, Emmanuelle, Ut pictura theatrum: théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au
classicisme français, Droz, 2003 (Introduction and relevant selections)
Martin Jay,
- “Scopic Regimes of Modernity” in Vision and Visuality, ed. Hal Foster, New Press,
1988
- “The Rise of Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism” IN Paul Hernadi, ed., The
Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric, Porter Institute for Poetics and
Semiotics, 1989
- “Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited” IN Essays on the Edge, 2011
Michael Fried. Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot.
University of California Press, 1980.
David Marshall. The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience. Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2005.
Jean Starobinski. L'œil vivant. Gallimard, 1961.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT, 1994.
David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT, 2000.
Paul Virilio, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. Verso, 2009.
Bazin, Qu’est-ce que le cinema?
Maurice Merleau Ponty, Le visible et l’invisible, Paris, Gallimard, 1979
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’œil et l’esprit, Paris, Gallimard, 2007
Erwin Panofsky, La perspective comme forme symbolique, Paris,Editions de Minuit,1976
W.J.T. Mitchell, Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. University of Chicago Press, 1986
W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Pierre Bourdieu, On Television. The New Press, 1996.
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image, Cinema 2 The Time Image. University of
Minnesota Press, 1983, 1989
Miriam Hansen, "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship."
Cinema Journal, Summer 1986.
Christian Metz, The Imaginary Signifier [Le signifiant imaginaire], Indiana University Press,
1986.
Judith Mayne, "Paradoxes of Spectatorship," in Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film, ed.
Linda Williams, 155-183. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Andrew Hoskins and Ben O’Loughlin, War and Media. Polity, 2010.
Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola. Methuen, 1985.
Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 5.
Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, 5th ed. Harvard University Press, 1967. Pages
739-775.
T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. Princeton
University Press, 1984.
Vanessa R. Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.
University of California Press, 1998.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, London: Fontana/Collins, 1973.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish [Surveiller et Punir]. Trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage,
1995.
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European studies. Courses in human rights; political, cultural and institutional histories; Islam in
Europe; medical anthropology and ethno-psychiatry
Edward Said, Orientalism, Vintage, 1979
Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy, Stanford UP, 2003
Timothy Hampton, Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance
France, Cornell UP, 2001
Roberto Dainotto, Europe (in Theory), Duke UP, 2007
Alain Grosrichard, La Structure du sérail, Seuil, 1979
Norman Daniel, Islam and the West: The Making of an Image, Edinburgh UP, 1960
Paul Bénichou. Morales du grand siècle. Gallimard, 1967.
Robert Darnton. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. Basic
Books, 1984.
Gilles Keppel, Les banlieues de l’Islam. Seuil, 1991.
Yamina Benguigui, Mémoires d’immigrés . Canal + éditions, 1997 (documentary film).
Gérard Delanty. Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality. St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Etienne Balibar, We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. Princeton
UP, 2003.
Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. Routledge, 2001.
Jean-Noël Jeanneny, Quand Google defie l’Europe.
Bernard Stiegler, Prendre Soin: de la jeunesse et des generations
Jean-Pierre Vernant; Les origines de la pensée grecque, Paris, PUF,1992
Pierre Chaunu, La civilisation de l’Europe des Lumières, Paris, Flammarion, 2010
Jean-François Lyotard, La condition postmoderne, Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1979
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man. The Free Press, 1992.
Lutz Niethammer, Posthistoire: Has History Come to an End? Verso, 1992.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, Harvard University Press, 2000.
OR: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude, Penguin, 2004.
Elie Kedourie, Nationalism. Blackwell, 1993.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Verso, 1983.
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, W.W. Norton, 2007.
Seyla Benhabib, Rights of Others, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Michel Foucault, L’Histoire de la sexualité, Gallimard, 1984.
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Francophone colonial and post-colonial studies. Courses in Atlantic, Caribbean and African
area studies; Creole(s) and creolization; Arabic and Islamic studies
Edward Said, Orientalism, Vintage, 1978
Madeleine Dobie, Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism,
Stanford UP, 2001
Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French
Caribbean, 1787-1804, U of North Carolina P, 2004
Sue Peabody, “There Are No Slaves in France”: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the
Ancien Régime, Oxford UP, 1996
Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804, Duke UP, 1999
Reda Bensmaia. Experimental Nations: Or, the Invention of the Maghreb. Princeton University
Press, 2003.
Madeleine Dobie. Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French
Culture. Cornell University Press, 2010.
Doris Garraway. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Duke
University Press, 2005.
Albert Memmi. Portrait du colonisé, Portrait du colonisateur. Editions Corréa, 1957.
Christopher Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle. Duke University Press, 2008
Frantz Fanon. Black Skin, White Masks [Peau Noire, Masques Blancs]. Grove Press, 2008.
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation. U Michigan P, 1997.
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 2000.
Glissant, Le Discours Antillais
Roger Toumson, La mythologie du métissage, Paris, PUF,1998
Mongo Beti, La France contre l’Afrique, Paris, La découverte, 2007
Leon Gontran Damas, Pigments, Névralgies, Paris, Présence Africaine, 2001
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth [Les damnés de la terre]. Grove Press, 200
Lowe, Lisa, Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms. Cornell University Press, 1992.
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather. Routledge, 1995.
Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.
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Language and identity. Courses in theory, philosophy, ethics and law, minority languages and
identities, world languages and literatures
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Aristotle, Poetics
Michel Foucault, Les Mots et les choses : Une archéologie des sciences humaines, Gallimard,
1966
Jacques Derrida. De la grammatologie. Les Éditions de Minuit, 1967.
Abdelfattah Kilito. Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language. Translated by Waïl Hassan. Syracuse
University Press. 2008.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Essai sur l’origine des langues, 1755.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. U Minnesota P, 1986.
Jacques Derrida. Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin. Stanford UP, 1998
[Le monolinguisme de l’autre. Paris, Editions Galilé, 1996].
Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters. Harvard UP, 2004
Lacoue-Labarthe et Nancy, Le Titre de la Lettre
Cerquiglini, Bernard, Une langue orpheline, Les éditions de minuit, 2007.
Schnepel, Ellen M., In Search of a National Identity: Creole and Politics in Guadeloupe, Helmut
Buske, 2004.
Friedriech Schleiermacher, Des différentes methodes du traduire, Paris, Seuil,1999.
Theodore Zeldin, De la conversation, Paris, Fayard,1999,
Jacques Derrida, Positions. Trans. Alan Bass, Continuum, 2002.
Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx. Trans. Peggy Kamuf, Routledge, 1994 [Spectres de Marx,
Paris: Galilée, 1993].
Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language. Columbia University Press, 1984.
Judith Butler, Precarious Life. Verso 2004.
Wai Chi Dimock, Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy. University of California
Press, 1996.
Peter Brooks, Troubling Confessions : Speaking Guilt in Law & Literature.
University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Douglas Smith, Oxford University Press,
1996.
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights. W.W. Norton, 2007.
Seyla Benhabib, Rights of Others. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish [Surveiller et Punir]. Trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage,
1995.
Michel Foucault, L’Histoire de la sexualité, Gallimard, 1984.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, London: Fontana/Collins, 1973.
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Linguistics
General
Battye, Adrian, Marie-Anne Hintze and Paul Rowlett, The French Language Today: A Linguistic
Introduction, Second edition, Routledge, 2000.
Walter, Henriette, Le Français dans tous les sens, Laffont, 1988.
History of the French Language
Cerquiglini, Bernard, Une langue orpheline, Les éditions de minuit, 2007.
Kibbee, Douglas A., For to Speke Frenche Trewely: The French Language in England, 10001600: Its Status, Description and Instruction, Benjamins, 1991.
Law, Vivien, The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600, Cambridge University
Press, 2003.
Lodge, R. Anthony, A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French, Cambridge University Press,
2004.
Lodge, R. Anthony, Le Français: Histoire d’un dialecte devenu langue. Fayard, 1993.
Tritter, Jean-Louis, Histoire de la langue française, Ellipses, 1999.
Variation and Sociolinguistics
Coveney, Aiden, “A Language Divided Against Itself? Diglossia, code-switching and variation in
French,” Le français en contact: Hommages à Raymond Mougeon, ed. France Martineau and
Terry Nadasdi, Presses le l'Université Laval, 2011, pp. 51-85.
Gadet, Françoise, La variation sociale en français, Ophrys, 2007.
Valdman, Albert, “Vers la reconstruction du français colonial, cible de la créolisation,” Le
français en contact: Hommages à Raymond Mougeon, ed. France Martineau and Terry Nadasdi,
Presses le l'Université Laval, 2011, pp. 393-413.