Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
History Lit Theory
Term
2020C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML501401
Course number integer
501
Registration notes
Permission Needed From Instructor
For PhD Students Only
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
All Readings and Lectures in English
For PhD Students Only
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
All Readings and Lectures in English
Meeting times
R 07:00 PM-10:00 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Rita Copeland
Description
Over the last three decades, the fields of literary and cultural studies have been reconfigured by a variety of theoretical and methodological developments. Bracing and often confrontational dialogues between theoretical and political positions as varied as Deconstruction, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Queer Theory, Minority Discourse Theory, Colonial and Post-colonial Studies and Cultural Studies have, in particular, altered disciplinary agendas and intellectual priorities for students embarking on the professonalstudy of literature. In this course, we will study key texts, statements and debates that define these issues, and will work towards a broad knowledge of the complex rewriting of the project of literary studies in process today. The reading list will keep in mind the Examination List in Comparative Literature. We will not work towards complete coverage but will ask how crucial contemporary theorists engage with the longer history and institutional practices of literary criticism.
Course number only
501
Cross listings
GRMN534401
Use local description
No