Introductory examination of significant trends and movements in literary theory including such approaches as formalism and structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic approaches, theories of ...

The course emphasizes major contemporary trends, such as feminist and queer theory, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, as well as the historical ...

Key issues in literary interpretation. Cultural criticism, Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction, feminist theory, ethnic criticism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics ...

T here’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner. In literature ...

More cited than actually understood, he inspired a modernist turn in the humanities in the middle of the century, when variants of structuralism spread through anthropology, literary theory, ...

David Lodge, a British novelist and literary critic known for his warm ... before trying out analytic methods including structuralism and post-structuralism, inspired in part by the work of ...

On one level, the book is a synoptic account of modern French structuralism, with extensive reference to Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and other leading lights on the Parisian intellectual scene. At the ...

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