Literary and Cultural Theory

3 cr · Graduate

A survey of the major theoretical approaches to German and Slavic literature and cultures. Discusses the aesthetics of Enlightenment and Idealism, Nietzsche, Freud, Russian Formalism, Prague Structralism, hermeneutics, semiotics, dialogism (Bakhtin), the Frankfurt School, collective memory, gender studies, post-colonialism, and multi-culturalism.