One of the groovy things about our new "open" society is how venerated institutions of higher learning like Yale are being strong-armed into sharing their course content online with the unwashed masses (aka you and me). This means you don't have to go to The Interwebs or TedX to get quasi scholarly ramblings about your favorite intellectuals or ideas: you can get qualified Continue Reading …
Paul Fry (Yale) on Levi-Strauss (and the rest of ’em)
On the podcast both Derick and I made some references to Paul Fry's literary theory course, which includes lectures on Saussure, Levi-Strauss, and Derrida. It's a much longer course, of course, so you can get ahead of us to get a handle on the dreaded Lacan, or see what Fry has to say on feminism and African-American criticism. The individual lecture pages linked above even Continue Reading …