LIT204   Criticism and Literary Theory   (20 credits)

Description

This course introduces writers, concepts and approaches fundamental to contemporary literary theory. We may study work by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze, although the selection varies from year to year. Lectures will introduce and explain this material, and seminars will discuss and apply it to the study of literature. The course aims to introduce a range of critical approaches, to help the student distinguish between them, and to indicate their significance for the general study of literature as well as the particular analysis of the individual text.

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