Librarian
Jane Faulkner
Contact:
UCSB Library
Room 2561B, Ocean Side
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Pronouns: she/her/hers
faulkner@ucsb.edu
Room 2561B, Ocean Side
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Pronouns: she/her/hers
faulkner@ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5380
Erik Desmazières, Library of Babel
Image source: The Paris Review blog
Comp Lit 101
How does critical theory help us to read and write literature? Potential foci include structuralism, semiotics, social theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cultural criticism, gender studies, feminism, queer studies, postcolonial criticism, ecocriticsm.
You are asked to reflect on the following: If we understand Borges’ "Biblioteca de Babel" as a metaphor for the universe, how should we “read” this universe?