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Modern Critical Theory Lecture: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY - Peter Coviello

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Lecture
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Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
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Lincoln Hall 1000
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Sep 9, 2025   5:15 pm  
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9/9  INTRODUCTION TO THEORY (“What Is Theory? Inside the Fascist Sequence”)

Peter Coviello (English, University of Illinois Chicago)  

Readings:

  • Puar, Jasbir K. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Chapter 4: “Will Not Let Die,” pp. 127–154, plus notes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880. Chapter 4: “The General Strike,” pp. 55–83. New York: The Free Press, 1998.
  • Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature. Chapters 2 and 6–9, pp. 83–89, 108–135. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • Clover, Joshua. “Passover.” Popula, April 17, 2019. https://popula.com/2019/04/17/passover/
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