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SYLLABUSAND SCHEDULECONTEMPORARYCRITICAL THEORY

CODE: KP-50306

Schedule

Basic Competence Topics/CoreMaterials

Activities Learning Experience References/Sources

Meeting1

Introduction:Delivering CourseOutline, Syllabus,Learning Contract,and CourseOverview

SharingDiscussion

The CO and the Syllabus

Meeting2

Understanding thecontextualization ofClassical andContemporary CriticalTheory and theirrelations to thefunction of criticism inmodern/contemporarysocieties

The Quests and theQuestions ofScience and Art

Discussion Discussing the function ofliterary criticisms inmodern societies

Meeting3

Understanding,mastering, andapplying critical

theory ofMarxism

Literature andIdeologicalComplexity; The

Political Struggle ofClass/Society

MiniSeminar

0 Saepul Hajar &Witiarwati0 Robi Darwis & Zaenal

Mustofa

Raymond Williams:from Marxism andLiterature, Part III

Terry Eagleton:from Literary Theory: An

Introduction, Chapter I:

The Rise of English

Meeting4

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofFeminism

Literature andSexual Discourse;The PoliticalStruggle of Gender

MiniSeminar

0 Teguh Hardiyanto &Titin Siti Fatimah0 Rosmiati & Risma SriRahayu0 Putri Galih Ning Gusti

Helene Cixous: TheLaugh of the Medusa

Elaine Showalter:Toward Feminist

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Poetics

Margot Badran:

Islamic Feminism

Revisited

Meeting5

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofNewHistoricism

Literature, HistoricalNarrative and itsDiscontinuity

MiniSeminar

0 Rio Priadmaja0 Sally Cucu Komara

Michel Foucault:Truth and Power

Stephen J.

Greenblatt:

Resonance and

Wonder

Meeting6

Understanding,mastering, andapplying critical

theory ofPost-Modernism

Challenging GrandNarratives and TheRaise of Plurality;

The Context ofSimulacrum andHyper-reality inModern Societies

MiniSeminar

0 Yuslina Rahmatina0 Riksa Qomarisa Sakinah

Jean-FrancoisLyotard: Answeringthe Question: What is

Postmodernism? Jean

Baudrillard: from The

Precession of Simulacra

Meeting7

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofPost-Structuralism

The Irrelevance ofStructure(knowledge) inDeconstructiveperspective

MiniSeminar

0 Riskayanti0 Reni Hariyanti

Jacques Derrida:Structure, Sign, andPlay in the Discourse ofthe Human Sciences

Roland Barthes:

The Death of theAuthor

Meeting8

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofPost-colonialism

Literature andIdeologicalComplexity; ThePolitical Struggle ofNation and Culture

MiniSeminar

0 Suci Khaofia0 Siti Sarah Yulianti &Tiara Nurvianti

Edward W. Said:fromOrientalism,Chapter I: Introduction

Gayatri

Chakravorty Spivak:

from Can the Subaltern

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Speak?

Meeting9 NATIONAL SEMINAR ON CRITICAL THEORY:FEMINISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM IN RELATION TO ISLAMIC WORLD

Meeting10

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofNewCriticism

The Text itselfandits Literary Devices

MiniSeminar

0 Santi Pratiwi0 Salman Alfarisi &Sunardi

John Crowe Ransom:Criticism, Inc.

W,K. Wimsatt &Monroe C.Beardsley:The Intentional

Fallacy & The

Affective Fallacy

Meeting11

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofFormalism

Literary Devices MiniSeminar

0 Rika Mudrikah0 Pitri Susanti

Victor Shklovsky:Art as Technique

Roman Jakobson:

The Metaphoric and

Metonymic Poles

Meeting12

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory of

Structuralism

Language asStructures; TheContribution ofLinguistics in

Literary and/orCultural Analysis

MiniSeminar

0 Randy SeptianSasratopano0 Rena Debiana0 Rahmat Hidayat &

Syabani Sarah

Ferdinand deSaussure: selectionfrom Course onGeneral Linguistics

Julia Kristeva:Semiotics: A CriticalScience and/or aCritique of Science

Gerad Genette:

Structuralism and

Literary Criticism

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Meeting13

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofReaderResponse

Horizon of ReadersExpectation; TheImplied Meaning;The Role of ReadersExperiences

MiniSeminar

0 Robi Firdaus & SitiJuriyah0 Siti Nurlaela & RidwanFaisal

Hans Robert Jauss:from Literary Historyas a Chalenge toLiterary Theory

Wolfgang Iser:

Interaction Between

Text and Reader

Meeting14

Understanding,mastering, andapplying criticaltheory ofPsychoanalysis

The Psyche of/and/inLiterature

MiniSeminar

0 Siti Al-Adawiyah0 Riki Mulyana

Sigmund Freud:Creative Writers andDaydreaming

Jacques Lacan:

The Mirror Stage as

Formative of the

Function of the I as

Revealed in

Psychoanalytic

Experience

Meeting15

General Review

Meeting16

Final Exam WrittenTest

All References

LEARNING CONTRACT

ACADEMIC1. Students are required to attend and participate in the discussion for every meeting conducted in the

classroom, at least 13 from the whole 16 meetings. A careless to this contract will cause ZERO for the aspectsof attendance and participation.

2. Students are expected to have all references, especially the required ones.3. Students are required to read the materials and bring them into the class. For those who do not read and

bring the materials are not allowed to come into the class.4. In Mini Seminar sessions, students (individually/in pairs) are required to present the topics which are focused

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on their understanding to the primary sources (texts) as written on the syllabus in English. The time allottedfor each presenter is 30 minutes, including question and answer and/or discussion sessions with audiences.

5. Concerning such Mini Seminar sessions, students who turn to be presenters have to make a readingreport/comments to the primary sources (texts) supported by secondary sources at least three references(books) as well as making the schema/diagram which describe the points of thought and their relations from

each figure. The schema/diagram could be made either on power point slides or just on the whiteboardavailable in the classroom.

6. Students (individually) are required to write an academic essay; applying one of the critical theories learned inthe classroom into any kind of objects (as students wish to choose): novels, short stories, poems, plays,articles, essays, speeches, advertisements, etc. The paper should be argumentative (meaning that it is not areading report and/or a kind) which analyzes and interprets the works/objects based on the theory used. Theessay should be written in English; the font could be Times New Roman (12) or Garamond (13) either, 2spaces, left margin 4cm, top, bottom, right 3 cm, between 2000 up to 3000 words (excluding references). Theminimum references are five (5) books (no internet sources) with body note/in note for the technique ofquoting. The title is written on the first page (center text) together with the name and student reg.number/NIM (right align text) above the title. Do not put any cover and/or any pictures/words for the purposesof covering. The essay is submitted at the time of final exam of this course and to be the first requisite tofollow such an exam.

7. Students are required to attend one Mid-Term Exam and one Final Exam. A careless to this contract will causeZERO for both aspects.

8. Mid-Term Exam will be scored from the students involvement in National Seminar which will be planned atmeeting 9. This seminar is planned to be organized by students especially in the context of technical thingsby which usually organization committee holds. In relation to this agenda, students are required to pay theregistration for certificate handling and snacks about Rp. 10.000.00NON-ACADEMIC

9. Students and lecturer are not allowed to smoke IN THE CLASSROOM.10.Students and lecturer are allowed to bring some snacks and soft drinks into the classroom.11.Students and lecturer are required to TURN OFF THE CELLPHONES OR SET THEM INTO SILENT MODE when

they attend and sit in the classroom.