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Academic Year 2005/2006

Introduction to 20th-Century Literary Theory
RUSS 270 FA

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.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RUSS    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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