Tentative Hyper Hermeneutics Schedule
Fall 2005
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WHAT IS HERMENEUTICS?
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August 31
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Richard Palmer’s Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer
- “Introduction”
- “Hermeneuein and Hermeneia: The Modern Significance of Their Ancient Usage”
- “Six Modern Definitions of Hermeneutics”
- “The Meaning and Scope of Hermeneutics”
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September 7
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- Translating Harry Potter (Free Press & Guardian)
- Vladimir Nabokov’s “Good Readers and Good Writers” (Norton)
- Frank Kermode’s The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative, Chapter 1: “Carnal and Spiritual Senses”
- Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger?”
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WHAT IS A DIGITAL TEXT? IS IT A TEXT?
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September 14
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September 21
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September 28
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- The Asylum
- Michael Betcherman and David Diamond’s The Daughters of Freya
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October 5
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Reflections & Connections (possibly w/ N. Katherine Hayles!)
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WHAT IS A READER/WRITER/TEXT?
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October 12
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Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler
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October 19
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Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics
- “The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem”
- “On the Problem of Self-Understanding”
- “On the Scope and Function of Hermeneutical Reflection”
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October 26
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Roland Barthes’ S/Z
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November 2
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Reflection and Connections
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WHAT DOES A READER/WRITER DO?
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November 9
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- Louise Rosenblatt’s The Reader the Text the Poem
- Rachel Timms and Laurence Hayes’ Whatever You Want
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November 16
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Project Proposal Due
Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics & the Social Sciences I
- “The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation”
- “What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding”
- “Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics”
- “Appropriation”
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November 23
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NO CLASSES – THANKSGIVING
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November 30
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Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics & the Social Sciences II
- “The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation”
- “What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding”
- “Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics”
- “Appropriation”
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WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN… TO YOU?
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December 7
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Project Presentations
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Final Projects are Due by 5pm on December 14th
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