INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERARY THEORY 14


INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERARY THEORY

Schedule of the course

Lecture

Students' activities

19.02

Introductory class (the notions of literature and the possible criteria for the classification of texts)

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.)

12.03

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)

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)

2.04

Session 2

Students' presentations - a choice of interpretative texts

9.04

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)

30.04

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)

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)

28.05

Session 4

Students' presentations - a choice of interpretative texts

4.06

Final test ( Reading, Writing and Reception, Cultural identity, Literature, Criticism, Feminism, Literature and Criticism)

11.06

Closing of the course



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