INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERARY THEORY Schedule of the course |
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Lecture |
Students' activities |
19.02 |
Introductory class (the notions of literature and the possible criteria for the classification of texts)
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5.03 |
The Structures of Literature (the conception of language as a system explored at a number of levels; structuralist criticism and its impacts in the fields of narratology and popular culture.) |
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12.03 |
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Session 1 Students' presentations - a choice of interpretative texts |
19.03 |
Literature and History (the relation between the methodologies of historical analysis and literary analysis; historical and ahistorical criticism; the notions of ideology and New Historicism) |
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26.03 |
Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism (psychoanalysis as crucial to contemporary understanding of subjectivity; the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis and the parallel relationship between the critic and the psychoanalyst) |
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2.04 |
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Session 2 Students' presentations - a choice of interpretative texts |
9.04 |
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Half term test (The Structures of Literature, Literature and History, Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism) |
16.04 |
Reading, Writing and Reception (the role of the reader in the construction of textual meaning; reading literature as a process of interaction between texts and consciousness; various conceptions of the reader) |
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30.04 |
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Session 3 Students' presentations - a choice of interpretative texts |
14.05 |
Cultural identity, Literature, Criticism (introduction to post-colonial literary theory, operation of literary canons and the kind of reading practices they produce in reference to the cultural identity) |
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21.05 |
Feminism, Literature and Criticism (ecriture feminine; analysis of literary representations of women; critique of misogynist stereotypes; transformation of language and symbolic systems as a means of expressing the feminine) |
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28.05 |
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Session 4 Students' presentations - a choice of interpretative texts |
4.06 |
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Final test ( Reading, Writing and Reception, Cultural identity, Literature, Criticism, Feminism, Literature and Criticism) |
11.06 |
Closing of the course
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