Midterm Study Guide

1. Michel Foucault | Judith Butler
(From readings: Spargo, Butler, Tamagne)

• Constructivism/essentialism
  
• How do they view sexuality? 
  
• Inception of homosexuality
  
• Gender according to Butler
  
• Discourses on homosexuality: early medical discourses, psychoanalysis, religious models (Tamagne – p. 209-226 specifically)
  
• Identity categories/political organization

  

2. Why Paris? 

(From all the Weiss readings, Nightwood, We will also discuss this in Monday’s Review Session)

• Financial incentives 
  
• Existing communities
  
• Modern city
  
• Salons
  
• History
  
• Surrealist Theory of Inanimate Objects 
  
• Your ideas/feelings 

3. Paris Was a Woman 

(Weiss readings)

• Natalie Barney
  
• Gertrude Stein
  
• Sylvia Beach
  
• Who were they? What did they do? Who were there lovers? Where in Paris? 
  
• Modernism – their influential role

4. Rue de l’Odeon 

(Weiss pp. 26-58 and Hemingway excerpt read in class)

• Who were the key players at Shakespeare & Co./time period?
  
• Relationship between Adrienne Monnier/Sylvia Beach
  
• Authors inspired/aided
  
• What happened to Shakespeare & Co.?
  

5. Modernism 

(Nightwood, Handout, Class Discussions)

• What are the main literary characteristics of modernism? 
  
• Time period? 
  
• Who? (from our class discussions and focus)