This course traces the development of the major theoretical frameworks, from classical Greek theories of mimesis to the present day concerns of ecocriticism and postcolonialism, which are used to analyse texts within the discipline of English literary studies. Apart from giving a comprehensive overview of the salient features that inform each schoo...
This course traces the development of the major theoretical frameworks, from classical Greek theories of mimesis to the present day concerns of ecocriticism and postcolonialism, which are used to analyse texts within the discipline of English literary studies. Apart from giving a comprehensive overview of the salient features that inform each schoo...
Lecture 01: Introduction: What is Literary Theory?
59mLecture 02: Literature & Mimesis: Plato (I)
34mLecture 03: Literature & Mimesis: Plato (II)
27mLecture 04: Literature and Mimesis: Aristotle (I)
30mLecture 05: Literature & Mimesis: Aristotle II
34mLecture 06: Literature and the Sublime??
37mLecture 07: Neoclassical Literary Theory??
29mLecture 08: Literature and Romanticism I??
29mLecture 09: Literature and Romanticism II??
32mLecture 11: Formalism?
32mLecture 12: Dialogism I??
33mLecture 13-Dialogism (II)?
34mLecture 14: Reader Response Theory I: The Phenomenological Tradition??
32mLecture 15: Reader Response Theory II: Wolfgang Iser, Harold Bloom, and Stanley Fish
32mLecture 16: Structuralism I: Ferdinand de Saussure??
32mLecture 17: Structuralism II: Claude Lévi-Strauss??
34mLecture 18: Poststructuralism I: Roland Barthes??
28mLecture 19: Poststructuralism II: Jacques Derrida??
37mLecture 20: Poststructuralism III: Michel Foucault??
30mLecture 21: Marxist Literary Theory I: Marx and Brecht??
36mLecture 22: Marxist Literary Theory II: Althusser and Gramsci
39mLecture 23: Marxist Literary Theory III: Raymond Williams??
27mLecture 24: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (I)??
27mLecture 25: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (II)??
35mLecture 26: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (III)??
41mLecture 27: Literature and Psychoanalysis IV: Carl Jung??
27mLecture 28: Literature and Psychoanalysis V: Jacques Lacan??
40mLecture 29: Feminism and Literature I: Mary Wollstonecraft??
26mLecture 31-Feminism and Literature III:Gynocriticism, Ecriture Feminine,Judith BUtler
48mLecture 32: Modernism and Postmodernism??
43mLecture 33: Postcolonial Theory I: Edward Said??
43mLecture 34: Postcolonial Theory II: Bhabha and Spivak??
31mLecture 35: Conclusion??
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