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Academic Year 2001/2002
Introduction to 20th-Century Literary Theory
RUSS 270 SP
This course will cover 20th-century literary theory as represented by the following schools and theoreticians: Russian Formalism; Jakobson; Czech Structuralism; Lotman; Ingarden; Gadamer (in the context of 20th-century
hermeneutics); Jauss and later
developments in reader response criticism (Iser and Fish); Barthes as a poststructuralist; Derrida and De Man; Foucault and his followers (Greenblatt and Said); Freud and later developments in psychoanalytic criticism;
Bakhtin; Sartre and Jameson as
representatives of Marxist criticism; feminist criticism. All course materials will be read in English.
MAJOR READINGS
Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique" Boris Eikhenbaum, "How Gogol's 'THE OVERCOAT' is Made" Jan Mukarovsky, "Aesthetic Function, Norm and Value as Social Facts," "Art as Semiotic Fact," "Structuralism in Aesthetics"
Roland Barthes, "An Introduction
to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" Paul de Man, "Semiology and Rhetoric" Wolfgang Iser, "The Role of Reader in Fielding's
Joseph Andrews" E.D. Hirsch,
VALIDITY IN INTERPRETATION Michel Foucault, "What is an Author," "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" Edward W. Said, "The World, the Text, the Critic"
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three short papers and a final examination.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RUSS
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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