LITERARY CRITICISM (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: explain background and key principles of each literary theory; discuss what the literary critics do in each theory; select the right examples of literary work relevant to each theory; Write a research paper by applying each theory through the analysis of a particular literary or creative cultural work.

Topics:

1. Theory before “theory”: Introducing Literary Research;
2. Liberal Humanism;
3. Structuralism 1;
4. Post-structuralism 1;
5. Postmodernism;
6. Psychoanalytic Criticism 1 (Freud);
7. Feminist Criticism 1 ( and the Role of Theory);
8. Queer Theory;
9. Marxist Criticism;
10. New Historicism;
11. Cultural Materialism;
12. Postcolonial Criticism 1 (Background and Characteristics);
13. Stylistics 1 (Theory);
14. Narratology;
15. Ecocriticism;
16. Theory after “theory”: The Future of Literary Criticism;
17. Review 1;
18. Psychoanalytic Criticism 2 (Lacan);
19. Structuralism 2 (Semiotics);
20. Feminist Criticism 2 (Language and Psychoanalysis);
21. Post-structuralism 2 (Deconstruction);
22. Postcolonial Criticism 2 (Postcolonial Reading);
23. Stylistics 2 (Practice);
24. Reader Response;
25. Posthumanism;
26. Review 2.