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M.A. English Literatue
ENG3C10 Literary Criticism and Theory: Part 2
Syllabus
1. Structuralism: An Overview
Major Theorists:
Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude- Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Gerard Genette
Key Concepts: Structure, Sign, Signifier, Signified, Semiology, Semiotics, Langue and Parole, Mythemes, Structuralist Narratology.
Text for Detailed Study: Roland Barthes: Structuralist Activity
2. Post-Structuralism/ Deconstruction: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, The Yale School.
Key Concepts: Deconstruction of Sign, Decentering, Logocentrism, Aporia, Supplement, The Death of the Author, Knowledge, Power, Discourse.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Social Sciences”
3. Psychoanalysis: An Overview
Major Theorists: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan.
Key Concepts: Id, Ego, Superego, Dream Mechanism, Oedipus Complex, Unconscious, Mirror Stage, Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, Ego Formation and Constructions of Selfhood, Jouissance, Unconscious is structured like a Language.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Lacan: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
4. Feminism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Virginia Woolf, Kate Millet, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous, Adrienne Rich.
Key Concepts: Gynocriticism, Eccriture Feminine, Womanism, The Language Problem in Feminism, Marxist Feminism, French Feminism, Lesbian Feminism, Black Feminism, Dalit Feminism, Postfeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
5. Cultural Materialism/ New Historicism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Raymond Williams, Jonathan Dollimore, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose.
Key Concepts: Neo-Marxism, Culture: New Definitions, Thin and Thick Descriptions, Textuality and Historicity, Texts, Contexts and Co-texts, Rereading the Renaissance and Shakespeare, The Politics of Representation and Power.
Text for Detailed Study: Louis Montrose: “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture”
6. Postcolonialism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Benedict Anderson.
Key Concepts: Crtique of Eurocentrism and Universalism, Decolonization, National Consciousness, Critiquing Nationalism, Postnationalism, Imagined Communities, Orientalism, Strategic Essentialism, Subaltern Studies, Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry.
Text for Detailed Study: Edward Said: “Jane Austen and Empire”
7. Ecocriticism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jonathan Bate, CheryllGlotfelty, Laurence Coupe, Patrick D Murphy, William Rueckert.
Key Concepts: Anthropocentrism, Shallow Ecology vs Deep Ecology, The Crisis of Humanism, Nature/Culture, Green Studies, Environmental Imagination, Ecofeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Cheryll Glotfelty: “Introduction: Literary Studies in an age of Environmental Crisis” (From The Ecocriticism Reader)
8.Critiquing Theory: An Overview
Text for Detailed Study: Graham Good: “Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
Module 1. Structuralism: An Overview
Major Theorists:
Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude- Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Gerrard Genette
Key Concepts: Structure, Sign, Signifier, Signified, Semiology, Semiotics, Langue and Parole, Mythemes, Structuralist Narratology.
Text for Detailed Study: Roland Barthes: “Structuralist Activity”
Materials
Ferdinand de Saussure
30 Minutes Lecture by Louis Markos, Houston Baptist University
Structuralism and Deconstruction
Saussure and Structuralism
Structuralism
Literary Criticism and Theory in the Twentieth Century
Key Theories of Ferdinand de Saussure
Ebooks
Author(s): Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (trans.)
Publisher: Columbia University Press, Year: 2011
The Cambridge Companion to Saussure (Cambridge Companions)
Author(s): Carol Sanders
Series: Cambridge Companions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2004
Author(s): John E. Joseph
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2012
Jstor Article
Structuralism as a Method of Literary Criticism
Author(s): Isaiah Smithson
Source: College English, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Oct., 1975), pp. 145-159
Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/375060
Text for Detailed Study: Roland Barthes Structuralist Activity
Barthes Structuralist Activity Essay
Roland Barthes The Structuralist Activity Essay in a Nutshell
Claude- Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi Strauss’ Structural Anthropology
Key Theories of Claude Levi Strauss
Ebooks
The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss
Author(s): Boris Wiseman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2009
Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics
Author(s): Boris Wiseman
Series: Ideas in Context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2007
Author(s): Simon Clarke
Author(s): Claude Levi-strauss
Publisher: Basic Books, Year: 1974
Gerard Genette
Structuralist Narratology
Gerard Genette and Structural Narratology
Ebooks
Gérard Genette and the Pleasures of Poetics
Author(s): Gerald Prince
Source: Narrative, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 3-7
Published by: Ohio State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25609380
Gérard Genette’s Evolving Narrative Poetics
Author(s): John Pier
Source: Narrative, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 8-18
Published by: Ohio State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25609381
Rhetoric, Structuralism, and Figurative Discourse: Gérard Genette’s Concept of Rhetoric
Author(s): Christopher Harlos
Source: Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1986), pp. 209-223
Published by: Penn State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40237485
Module 2 Post-Structuralism/ Deconstruction: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, The Yale School.
Key Concepts: Deconstruction of Sign, Decentering, Logocentrism, Aporia, Supplement, The Death of the Author, Knowledge, Power, Discourse.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Social Sciences”
Materials
Jacques Derrida
Structuralism and Deconstruction
Ebooks
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Derrida on Deconstruction
Author(s): Barry Stocker
Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2006
Derrida For Beginners
Author(s): Jim Powell, Van Howell
Publisher: For Beginners, Year: 2007
Author(s): Jim Powell, Joe Lee
Publisher: For Beginners, Year: 2008
Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
Author(s): Joshua Kates
Series: SPEP
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Year: 2005
Author(s): Hugh J. Silverman
Series: Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1989
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Author(s): Jonathan D. Culler
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Year: 1983
Deconstruction and Critical Theory
Author(s): Peter V. Zima
Publisher: Continuum, Year: 2002
The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy
Author(s): Martin McQuillan
Year: 2007
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
Author(s): John D. Caputo
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Fordham University Press, Year: 1996
Philosophy Beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism
Author(s): Stephen W. Melville
Series: Theory and History of Literature 27
Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press, Year: 1986
Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading
Author(s): G. Douglas Atkins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Year: 1983
Author(s): Rajnath (eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 1989
Author(s): Julian Wolfreys (auth.)
Series: Transitions
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK, Year: 1998
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Essay
Analysis of Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in The Discourse of Human Sciences
Roland Barthes
Ebooks
Author(s): Graham Allen
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2003
Roland Barthes, Structuralism and After
Author(s): Annette Lavers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Year: 1982
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Graham Allen
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Roland Barthes (2003) | |
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Annette Lavers
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Roland Barthes, Structuralism and After (1982) | |
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Annette Lavers
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Roland Barthes: Structuralism and After (1982) | |
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Nancy M. Shawcross
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Roland Barthes on Photography: The Critical Tradition in Perspective (1996) | |
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Steven Ungar,
Betty R. McGraw |
Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today (2007) | EPUB |
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Patrick Ffrench
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Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (2019) | EPUB |
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Thomas Baldwin
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Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations (2019) | |
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Karen Beckman
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Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes (2008) | |
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Karen Beckman
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Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes | |
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Marie Gil
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Roland Barthes: Au lieu de la vie (2012) | EPUB |
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Lucy O’Meara
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Roland Barthes at the Collège De France (2012) | |
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Viola Brisolin
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Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini (2011) | |
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Carol Mavor
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Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott (2008) | |
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Patrizia Lombardo
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The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes (1989) | PDF EPUB |
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Vincent Debaene
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Roland Barthes’ Cinema (2016) | |
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Andy Stafford
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Roland Barthes (2015) | |
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Mary Bittner Wiseman
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The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes (2016) | |
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Neil Badmington
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The Afterlives of Roland Barthes (2016) | EPUB |
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Philippe Sollers
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The Friendship of Roland Barthes (2017) | EPUB |
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Graham Allen
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Roland Barthes (2003) | |
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Roland Barthes,
Richard Howard, Adam Phillips |
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (2010) | |
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Andy Stafford
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Roland Barthes (2015) | |
Michel Foucault
Ebooks
| Authors | Title | |
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Dianna Taylor
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Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (2011) | PDF EPUB |
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Lisa Downing
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The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008) | |
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David Macey
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Michel Foucault (2004) | EPUB |
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Mariana Valverde
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Michel Foucault (2017) | PDF EPUB |
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Sverre Raffnsøe,
Morten S Thaning, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer |
Michel Foucault: A Research Companion (2015) | |
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Sara Mills
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Michel Foucault (2003) | |
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Mark G. E. Kelly
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The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault (2009) | |
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David Macey
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The Lives of Michel Foucault (2019) | EPUB |
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Dianna Taylor
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Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (2010) | |
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Lisa Downing
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The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008) | |
Module 3. Psychoanalysis: An Overview
Major Theorists: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan.
Key Concepts: Id, Ego, Superego, Dream Mechanism, Oedipus Complex, Unconscious, Mirror Stage, Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, Ego Formation and Constructions of Selfhood, Jouissance, Unconscious is structured like a Language.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Lacan: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
Articles
https://literariness.org/2016/04/16/freudian-psychoanalysis/
Text for Detailed Study
Essay pdf
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
Ebooks
A Huge Collection of #Psychoanalysis Books Literariness.media/Psychoanalysis
Module 4. Feminism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Virginia Woolf, Kate Millet, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous, Adrienne Rich.
Key Concepts: Gynocriticism, Eccriture Feminine, Womanism, The Language Problem in Feminism, Marxist Feminism, French Feminism, Lesbian Feminism, Black Feminism, Dalit Feminism, Postfeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
Audio Lectures
Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Women’s Rights in a Man’s World
Ebooks
Feminism Ebooks Visit Literariness.media/Feminism (500+ Ebooks)
Towards a Feminist Poetics Essay pdf
Towards Feministic Poetics Elaine Key Points PDF
Click on this link for key ideas of feminist criticism (MA Syllabus based material only)
Module 5.
Cultural Materialism/ New Historicism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Raymond Williams, Jonathan Dollimore, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose.
Key Concepts: Neo-Marxism, Culture: New Definitions, Thin and Thick Descriptions, Textuality and Historicity, Texts, Contexts and Co-texts, Rereading the Renaissance and Shakespeare, The Politics of Representation and Power.
Text for Detailed Study: Louis Montrose: Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture
Articles
Ebooks
Author(s): Fred Inglis
Year: 1998
Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams (Cultural Politics)
Author(s): Christopher Prendergast (editor)
Series: Cultural Politics volume 9
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, Year: 1995
Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction
Author(s): Paul Jones (auth.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2006
Author(s): Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Payne
Series: Blackwell Readers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2005
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Author(s): Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, Year: 2005
Biographical Dictionary of Neo-Marxism
This Dictionary comprehensively surveys major twentieth-century neo-Marxian (non-orthodox) thinkers and activists throughout the world. This thorough research aid contains over 200 biographical essays which include pertinent biographical details; a summary of the entrant’s significant and unique contributions to neo-Marxian theory and practice; and a bibliography of relevant primary and secondary works.
Author(s): Robert A. Gorman (editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press, Year: 1985
Text for Detailed Study: Louis Montrose: Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture
Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture Essay PDF
Pramod K Nayar Re-reading the Renaissance A Short History of English Literature
Nayar, P. K. (n.d.). Re-reading the Renaissance. A Short History of English Literature, 106–110. doi:10.1017/upo9788175968851.006
Module 6. Postcolonialism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Benedict Anderson.
Key Concepts: Crtique of Eurocentrism and Universalism, Decolonization, National Consciousness, Critiquing Nationalism, Postnationalism, Imagined Communities, Orientalism, Strategic Essentialism, Subaltern Studies, Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry.
Text for Detailed Study: Edward Said: Jane Austen and Empire
Articles
For More Articles Visit https://literariness.org/category/postcolonialism/
Ebooks Visit Literariness.media/Postcolonialism
Text for Detailed Study: Edward Said: Jane Austen and Empire
Edward Said Jane Austen and Empire Essay
Jane Austen and Empire by Edward Said Key Points
Module 7 Ecocriticism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jonathan Bate, Cheryll Glotfelty, Laurence Coupe, Patrick D Murphy, William Rueckert.
Key Concepts: Anthropocentrism, Shallow Ecology vs Deep Ecology, The Crisis of Humanism, Nature/Culture, Green Studies, Environmental Imagination, Ecofeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Cheryll Glotfelty: Introduction: Literary Studies in an age of Environmental Crisis (From The Ecocriticism Reader)
Articles
Ebooks
Ebooks on Ecocriticism Literariness.media/Ecocriticism
Text for Detailed Study: Cheryll Glotfelty: Introduction: Literary Studies in an age of
Environmental Crisis (From The Ecocriticism Reader)
Module 8.Critiquing Theory: An Overview
Text for Detailed Study: Graham Good: Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
To Read Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism See Chapter 5, Pages 63-73 of Humanism Betrayed: Theory, Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
Post Theory: New Directions in Criticism
Author(s): Martin Mcquillan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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