Friday, March 21, 2008

Week #8: Casino Royale & cultural studies & reader-response theory.

Forgot to mention yesterday: if you don't have White Teeth already, you'd better get on it, since we're reading it right after this.

But for this week, we're finishing up Casino Royale. Both of the discussions on Foucault will still be relevant here; the panopticon has obvious and subtle influences on the second half and his notion of authorship is something to keep in mind when looking at reader-response criticism.

To remind you: you must post a first response by Monday and two comments to your classmates by Wednesday. As always, feel free to post beyond that and really create a discussion that's not just "I agree" and "Yeah, me too." I was really pleased with the quality of your posts last week--let's keep it up.

And the Turnitin box is already up for this week--I checked twice!

Have a good holiday and I'll see you next week.

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