EN122 Modes of Reading – 2015-2016
Roxanne Bibizadeh; R.E.Bibizadeh@warwick.ac.uk. Office Hour: Wednesdays 12:00 -13:00
(H538 T1 / H517 T2)
Lecture List: term 1
The first lecture of each unit will focus on the primary text for that unit. The lectures in the
remaining weeks of that unit will look at the primary text in relation to the stated theory.
You will cover the same material each week in your seminars.
Set Texts
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Introduction to the Module: Why Theory Matters (not recorded: see
powerpoint)
Unit 1: Nation, Culture, Place
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Lecturer for this unit: Dr Mike Niblett
Selvon
• Fredric Jameson (Lodge 542)
Selvon
• Ramond Williams (Lodge 337)
Selvon
• Frantz Fanon (Lodge 127)
READING WEEK
Unit 2: Between Historical and Contemporary
Kushner: The Flamethrowers (2013)
A Return to the 70s: The Flamethrowers as a Historical Novel
Lecturer for this unit: Dr. Myka Tucker-Abramson
Nicholas Dames "Seventies Throwback Fiction"
(https://nplusonemag.com/issue-21/reviews/seventies-throwback-fiction/)
Rachel Kushner "Art and Photography" (http://www.theparisreview.org/artphotography/6197/curated-by-rachel-kushner-the-flamethrowers)
Kushner: The Role of Art in the Age of Finance: The Flamethrowers as a Novel
about Art
• Adorno "Commitment" (New Left Review- http://0newleftreview.org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/I/87-88/theodor-adornocommitment
• Nicholas Brown "The Work of Art in the Age of its Real Subsumption Under
Capitalism"
(http://nonsite.org/editorial/the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-its-realsubsumption-under-capital)
• Supplemental: Michael Fried "Art and Objecthood"
Kushner: China Girls and Feminist Revolutionaries: The Flamethrowers as a
Feminist Novel
• Sylvia Fredrici and the Wages for Housework Committee "Wages Against
Housework"
Week
10
(https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/silvia-federici-wagesagainst-housework/#more-373)
• Valerie Solanas "Scum Manifesto" (available soon)
• Supplemental: Shulasmith Firestone Dialectic of Sex "On American Feminism"
Kushner: The Coming Insurrection: The Flamethrowers as a contemporary novel
• Philip Mirowski Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste "One More Red Nightmare" Book
in Library
• Supplemental: Tiqqun The Coming Insurrection "A Point of Clarification"
VACATION
Assessment
This module is assessed with formative and summative essays. You will also be required to
complete an online research skills task. Submission of all essays and completion of the
online task is required to achieve a pass. There is no exam component for this module.
First Year Students
• TERM 1: Two formative--unassessed--essays (2,000 words).
These are compulsory essays; they must be submitted and must
achieve a passing grade.
Deadlines are 5th and 8th week (DURING SEMINARS).
You should submit a paper copy to your tutor during the seminar but you must
also complete an electronic submission via TABULA.
• TERM 2: Assessed Essay 1 (3,500 words), weighted as 50% of your module mark;
Submission deadline Tuesday 19th January 2016 (week 2, term 2) by 12 noon.
TERM 3: Assessed Essay 2 (3,500 words), weighted as 50% of your module mark;
Submission deadline Tuesday 3rd May 2016 (week 2, term 3) by 12 noon.
Visiting Students (including Erasmus students)
• Visiting students taking the module who are not present for the whole year must submit
ONE assessed essay for each term that they are registered. Each essay is 3,000
words.
• For students visiting during term 1 and 2, the deadlines are:
Term 1: Assessed Essay 1 (3,000 words); Submission deadline Tuesday 8th
December 2015 (week 10, term 1) by 12 noon.
Term 2: Assessed Essay 2 (3,000 words); Submission deadline Tuesday 15th
March 2016 (week 10, term 2) by 12 noon.
• For students visiting during terms 2 and 3, the deadlines are:
Term 2: Assessed Essay 1 (3,000 words); Submission deadline Tuesday 15th
March 2016 (week 10, term 2) by 12 noon.
Term 3: Assessed Essay 2 (3,000 words); Submission deadline Tuesday 7th June
2016 (week 7, term 3) by 12 noon.
Titles for the essays will be the same as for those students taking the module by standard
assessment. Students arriving in term 2 will write both essays on topics and texts covered
during seminars and lectures in term 2.
Unassessed essays are optional for Erasmus / Part-Year Visiting students.