Seminar on East European Literary Theories

Graduate credit

This course explores the contributions of major Eastern European theoretical schools to modern critical thought, tracing influential Eastern European theoretical trends from the nineteenth century to the present. Areas of focus will include symbolist criticism, Marxism, the Russian formalist school, Prague structuralism and its aftermath, structural poetics, phenomenology, Bakhtin's narratology, cultural semiotics of the Moscow-Tartu school, and East-European roots of poststructuralism.