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Introduction to 20th Century Literary Theory
RUSS270 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

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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