Introduction to Theory of Literature
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This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?
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- Configurative Reading
- New Criticism
- Western Formalisms
- Russian Formalism
- Structuralism
- Linguistics
Course programme
Lecture 2 Introduction (cont.)
Lecture 3 Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle
Lecture 4 Configurative Reading
Lecture 5 The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork
Lecture 6 The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms
Lecture 7 Russian Formalism
Lecture 8 Semiotics and Structuralism
Lecture 9 Linguistics and Literature
Lecture 10 Deconstruction I
Lecture 11 Deconstruction II
Lecture 12 Freud and Fiction
Lecture 13 Jacques Lacan in Theory
Lecture 14 Influence
Lecture 15 The Postmodern Psyche
Lecture 16 The Social Permeability of Reader and Text
Lecture 17 The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
Lecture 18 The Political Unconscious
Lecture 19 The New Historicism
Lecture 20 The Classical Feminist Tradition
Lecture 21 African-American Criticism
Lecture 22 Post-Colonial Criticism
Lecture 23 Queer Theory and Gender Performativity
Lecture 24 The Institutional Construction of Literary Study
Lecture 25 The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism
Lecture 26 Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?
Introduction to Theory of Literature