Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Mod Lit Theory & Crit
Term
2019C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML605401
Course number integer
605
Registration notes
Undergraduates Need Permission
Meeting times
F 02:00 PM-05:00 PM
Meeting location
VANP 402
Level
graduate
Instructors
Andrea Goulet
Description
This course will provide an overview of major European thinkers in literary theory of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will pay particular attention to the following movements: Structuralism and Deconstruction (Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes, Derrida), Social Theory (Foucault, Ranciere), Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Abraham and Torok), Schizoanalysis (Deleuze and Guattari), Feminism and Queer Theory (Irigary, Kristeva, Sedgwick), Spatial Theory (Bachelard, DeCerteau, Lefebvre), and the Frankfurt School (Adorno and Horkheimer, Kracauer). Readings and discussion will be in English.
Course number only
605
Cross listings
ENGL605401, FREN605401, GRMN605401
Use local description
No