• Dr Monika Mazurek

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http://chomikuj.pl/mazurekAP/Theory+of+Literature

• Theory of literature - MA course

1. Introductory class

2. Theories of the sign

De Saussure Course in General Linguistics

3. Russian formalism, the Prague School.

Roman Jakobson Linguistics and Poetics, Eichenbaum The Theory of the Formal Method

4. New Criticism

J.C. Ransom Criticism, Inc., Brooks The Well Wrought Urn, Wimsatt & Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy, The Affective Fallacy

5. Structuralism and poststructuralism

Barthes Mythologies, The Death of the Author

6. Psychoanalysis

Freud The “Uncanny”, Jung On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry, Lacan The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious

7. Hermeneutics

Friedrich Schleiermacher Hermeneutics

8. Deconstruction

Paul de Man Semiology and Rhetoric, Deleuze & Guattari Rhizome, Baudrillard The Precession of Simulacra, Derrida Of Grammatology

9. Reader-Response Criticism

Iser Interaction Between Text and Reader, Jauss Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory,

10. Speech-Act Theory and Pragmatics

Knapp & Michaels Against Theory

11. Intertextuality

Mikhail Bakhtin Discourse in the Novel, Roland Barthes From Work to Text

12. Marxism

Marx & Engels The German Ideology, Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Horkheimer & Adorno Dialectic of Enlightenment, Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, Jameson Postmodernism and Consumer Society

13. Gender studies

Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own, Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex, Helene Cixous The Laugh of Medusa

14. Postcolonial criticism

Said Orientalism, Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak?

15. New Historicism

Greenblatt The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance, Foucault What is an Author?

Entries in bold type are obligatory for all students. Presentations on optional texts will result in raising the final course grade by 0.5 point.

Primary sources:

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (a bound file for copying in the library)

David Lodge Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader

R. Selden, P. Widowson, A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Supplementary sources:

A. Burzyńska i Michał Paweł Markowski, Teorie literatury XX wieku: podręcznik i Teorie literatury XX wieku: antologia (Kraków: Znak, 2006)

J.A. Cuddon, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (BJ - Czytelnia Europejska)

Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000) (BJ - Czytelnia Europejska)

Peter Barry, Beginning Theory (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995) (BJ - Czytelnia Europejska)

Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) (BJ - Czytelnia Główna)

Stefania Skwarczyńska, Teoria badań literackich za granicą, vol. 4 and 5 (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1981)

Henryk Markiewicz, Współczesna teoria badań literackich za granicą, vol. 2 and 4 (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1976, 1992)

Zofia Mitosek, Teoria badań literackich (Warszawa: PWN, 1995)

Katarzyna Rosner, Semiotyka strukturalna w badaniach nad literaturą, (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1981)

Katarzyna Rosner, Hermeneutyka jako krytyka kultury (Warszawa: PIW, 1991)

Zofia Rosińska, Psychoanalityczne myślenie o sztuce (Warszawa: PIW, 1985)

Ryszard Nycz, Tekstowy świat. Poststrukturalizm a wiedza o literaturze (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IBL 1993)

PhilWeb http://www.phillwebb.net/ NOTE: WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A RECOMMENDED SOURCE!

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