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Modern Literary Theory

702316 - Modern Literary Theory
Faculty

Faculty of Languages and Communication

Department

English Language, Culture and Communication

Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

_

Co-requisite

_

Distribution

3+0
The course is a study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature ? in addition to considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, and other interdisciplinary themes, which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning. It also draws on the heterogeneous tradition of continental philosophy and the philosophy of language. The intellectual traditions and priorities of the various kinds of literary theory of broad schools ? which include New Criticism, formalism, Russian formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, feminism and French feminism, post-colonialism, new historicism, deconstruction, reader-response criticism, historical and biographical criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, and cultural criticism ? are meticulously addressed.