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| Unit name |
Theories and Approaches |
| Unit code |
CLASM0040 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
M/7
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. O'Gorman |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None
|
| School/department |
Department of Classics & Ancient History |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit is designed to familiarise students with a wide range of theoretical perspectives on the study of ancient culture and its reception. This will enable them to sutuate their reading of secondary works within an intellectual context, and will thus facilitate their critical approach to other scholars. It will also enable them to reflect upon and consciously mobilise their own interpretations of ancient culture and its reception in their research.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will understand a range of theoretical perspectives and will be able to comment on their inter-relation, the history of their development and their relevance to different areas of the study of antiquity and its reception.
Teaching Information
Seminars
Assessment Information
1 5000 essay
Reading and References
- James I. Porter. 2005. “What is ‘Classical’ about Classical Antiquity? Eight Propositions” Arion 13. 27-61.
- Michael Cronin. 2006. Translation and Identity. London: Routledge. 6-33.
- Lawrence Venuti. 2008. “Translation, Interpretation, Canon Formation” in Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko, eds. Translation and the Classics. Identity as Change in the History of Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 27-51.
- Joy Connolly. 2005. “Border Wars: Literature, Politics, and the Public” Transactions of the American Philological Association. 135. 103-134.
Elizabeth Prettejohn. 2006. “Reception and Ancient Art” in C.A. Martindale and R.F. Thomas. eds. Classics and the Uses of Reception. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 227-249.
- Neville Morley. 2004. “Decadence as a Theory of History” New Literary History 35. 573-585.
- Paul Veyne. 1971. Writing History. Essay on Epistemology. trans. Mina Moore-Rinvolucri. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. 117-143.
Hélène Cixous. 1986. from “Sorties” in Hélène Cixous & Catherine Clément The Newly Born Woman. trans. Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 63-78, 100-121.
- Brooke Holmes. 2012. Gender. Antiquity and its Legacy. London: I.B. Tauris. 126-150.
- Jonathan Culler. 2006. “The Linguistic Basis of Structuralism” in Jonathan Culler. ed. Structuralism. Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge. 84-98.
- Bonnie Honig. 2009. “Antigone’s Laments, Creon’s Grief: Mourning, Membership, and the Politics of Exception”. Political Theory. 37. 5-43.
- Jacques Derrida. 1991. “Différance” in Peggy Kamuf. ed. A Derrida Reader. Between the Blinds. Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf. 59-79.
Kennedy, Duncan F. 1992. “‘Augustan’ and ‘Anti-Augustan’: Reflections on Terms of Reference” in Anton Powell (ed.) Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. 26-58.
- Sigmund Freud. 1913. Totem and Taboo. translated under the editorship of James Strachey. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. London: Hogarth Press. vol. 13. 132-161.
- Victoria Wohl. 2013. “The Mythic Foundation of Law” in Vanda Zajko & Ellen O’Gorman eds. Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis. Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 165-182.
- Louis Althusser. 1972. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review Press. 127-186.
- Sara Elise Phang. 2012. Roman Military Service. Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Phiroze Vasunia. 2001. The Gift of the Nile. Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander. Berkeley: University of California Press. 248-275
- Ika Willis. 2007. “The Empire Never Ended” in Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie eds. Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 329-348.
Case studies
- Livy 34.1-8 on the repeal of the Oppian Law; Tacitus Annals 3.32-37 on provincial commands and sumptuary laws.
- Aeschylus Eumenides.
