RL 780 Readings in Theory (Spring: 3)
Cross Listed with
EN 780, PL 780
Offered Periodically
Conducted in English.
Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor
only.
Fulfills a Ph.D. requirement in Romance Languages and Literatures.
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 the contemporary literary
critical scene. Readings from Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes,
Lacan, Ricoeur, Derrida, de Man, García Canclini, Josefina Ludmer, Carlos
Monsivais, among others.
Kevin Newmark
Last Updated: 31-JAN-12