UWC2101E: Writing and Critical Thinking: Literature and Ethics

Readings

• Avelar, Idelber. "The Ethics of Interpretation and the International Division of Labor" SubStance 91 (2000): 80-103.
• Bookchin, Natalie. The Intruder (net art, more information at net_condition)
• Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Intruder." The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969. Ed. Norman Thomas di Giovanni. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. 161-166.
• De Certeau, Michel. "Reading as Poaching." The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California, 1984. 165-176.
• Fluck, Winfried. "Fiction and justice (Inquiries Into Ethics and Narratives)" New Literary History 34:1 (2003) 19-42.
• Guillory, John. "The Ethical Practice of Modernity: The Example of Reading." The Turn to Ethics. Eds. Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 2000. 29-46.
• Kafka, Franz. "In the Penal Colony." The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka. Trans. Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 191-229. Please note: it is important that you use this translation, which is much better than anything else around.
• Kant, Immanuel. "The Noble Descent of Duty." Ethics. Ed. Peter Singer. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 38-41.
• Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. From the essay "Of Experience." Trans. Donald M. Frame. The Complete Works of Montaigne. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Required sections: 815-822. [beginning to "Oh, what a sweet and soft..."] 827-832. ["I have lived long enough..." to "The world does the opposite..."] 849-851. ["I who boast of embracing..." to "All other things, ruling, hoarding..."] 855-857. ["Of the opinions of philisophy..." to end]
• Phelan, James. "Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading." Mapping the ethical turn : a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory. Ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2001. 93-109.
• Samuels, Lisa. "Relinquish¹ Intellectual Property^2" New Literary History 33.2 (2002) 357-374
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997). Dir. Atom Egoyan.
• Williams, William Carlos. "The Use of Force." The Doctor Stories. Compiled by Robert Coles, M.D. New York: New Directions: 1984. 56-60.