COML6050 - Modern Literary Theory and Criticism

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Modern Literary Theory and Criticism
Term
2022C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML6050401
Course number integer
6050
Registration notes
Perm Needed From Instructor
Meeting times
M 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
VANP 626
Level
graduate
Instructors
Ian Fleishman
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
6050
Cross listings
ENGL7905401, ENGL7905401, FREN6050401, FREN6050401, GRMN6050401, GRMN6050401, ITAL6050401, ITAL6050401, REES6435401, REES6435401
Use local description
Yes