EN 780 Readings in Theory (Spring: 3)

Cross Listed with RL 780
Offered Periodically
Conducted in English
Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor only

Fulfills a Ph.D. requirement in Romance Languages and Literatures

Fulfills Theory requirement

This course is organized as an introduction to the reading of literary theory for graduate students in various disciplines. Its aim is to develop in students an awareness and sensitivity to the specific means and ends of interpreting literary and extra-literary language today. The course seeks to provide students with a basic familiarity with some of the most formative linguistic, anthropological, philosophical, and literary antecedents of the diverse and often contentious theoretical models occupying—some would say plaguing—the contemporary literary critical scene. Readings from Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes, Lacan, Ricoeur, Geertz, Clifford, Austin, Derrida, and de Man, among others.
Kevin Newmark

Last Updated: 17-OCT-11