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ENGL 300

Introduction to Theory of Literature

Undergraduate · Historical course

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Topics

  • Introduction
  • Introduction (cont.)
  • Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle
  • Configurative Reading
  • The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork
  • The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms
  • Russian Formalism
  • Semiotics and Structuralism
  • Linguistics and Literature
  • Deconstruction I
  • Deconstruction II
  • Freud and Fiction
  • Jacques Lacan in Theory
  • Influence
  • The Postmodern Psyche
  • The Social Permeability of Reader and Text
  • The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
  • The Political Unconscious
  • The New Historicism
  • The Classical Feminist Tradition
  • African-American Criticism
  • Post-Colonial Criticism
  • Queer Theory and Gender Performativity
  • The Institutional Construction of Literary Study
  • The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism
  • Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?

Readings

  • Richter, David, ed. The Critical Tradition , 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2006.
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