| Module Identifier |
FRM0430 |
| Module Title |
APPROACHES TO TEXTS: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY |
| Academic Year |
2002/2003 |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr Heather M Williams |
| Semester |
Semester 1 |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 10 Hours |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours |
| Assessment |
Semester Exam | 3 Hours | 60% |
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Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: Essay of 5000 words on a set text | 40% |
Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will be able to:
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articulate and understand the historical and philosophical context of the development of literary theory
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describe the impact of key 'movements' in twentieth -century literary theory (Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Psychoanalysis) on the practice of literary criticism
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explain relevant critical arguments developed around these key 'movements'
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assess the relevance or usefulness of such theoretical work for producing their own literary criticism
Those students who wish to go on with their studies should be able to demonstrate that they have a solid foundation for postgraduate research
The learning outcomes above will be explicitly tested by the independent research, undertaken on the student' own personal initiative, and production of the essay. Both forms of assessment specifically consolidate developments and debates covered in the course. The 3-hour examination will be designed to test further the students' acquisition of the outcomes described.
Brief description
This module studies key movements in literary theory in the 20th Century, with special attention to France. Analysis of selected passages will provide students with a solid theoretical basis to inform their own projects and methodologies.
Aims
The aims of this module are to introduce students to a range of theoretical approaches to the stuidy of literature. To trace the main developments in twentieth-century literary theory, from Rusian Formalism to Structuralism and Post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis.
Reading Lists
Books
Culler, Jonathan. (1985)
Saussure. Fontana Modern Masters
Derrida, Jacques. (1972)
Marges de la philosophie. Minuit
Derrida, Jacques. (1972)
'La Double Séance' in La Dissémination. Seuil
Culler, Jonathan. (1983)
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Routledge
Howells, Christina. (1999)
Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics. Polity
Norris, Christopher. (1987)
Derrida. Fontana Modern Masters
Bowie, Malcolm. (1991)
Lacan. Fontana Modern Masters
Ellman, Maude (ed). (1994)
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism. Longman
Eagleton, Terry. (1983)
Literary Theory: An introduction. Blackwell
Freud, Sigmund.
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, vol. 1. The Penguin Freud Library
Derrida, Jacques. (1967)
'La Structure, le signe et le jeu dans le discours des sciences humaines' in L'Écriture et la difference. Seuil
Derrida, Jacques. (1967)
'Ce dangereaux supplément' in De la grammataologie.
Barthes, Roland. (1984)
'La mort de l'auteur' and 'De l'oeuvre au texte' in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques IV. Seuil
Barthes, Roland. (1953/1972)
Le Degré zero de l'écriture. Seuil
Barthes, Roland. (1978)
Leçon. Seuil
Walder, Dennis (ed). (1990)
Literature in the Modern World. Oxford University Press, in association with the Open University
Sturrock, John (ed). (1979)
Structuralism and Since: From Lévi Strauss to Derrida. Oxford University Press
Lodge, David (ed). (1988)
Modern Criticism and Theory: A reader. Longman
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (eds). (1995)
The Post-colonial studies reader. Routledge
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (eds). (1989)
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures. Routledge
Thomas, M. Wynn. (1999)
Corresponding Cultures: The two literatures of Wales. University of Wales Press
Said, Edward W.. (1978)
Orientalism. Penguin
Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger (ed).
The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press, 1983 (reprinted Canto, 1992
Cairns, David and Shaun Richards. (1988)
Writing Ireland: Colonialisn, nationalism and culture. Manchester University Press
Bhabha, Homi K.. (1994)
The Location of culture. Routledge
Bhabha, Homi K. (ed). (1990)
Nation and Narration. Routledge
Jefferson, Ann, and David Robey. (1982)
Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction.
Freud, Sigmund.
Art and Literature, vol. 1. The Penguin Freud Library
Lacan, Jacques.
'The insistence of the letter in the unconscious' in Lodge, Modern Criticism and Theory.
Laplanche and Pontalis. (1988)
The Language of Psychoanalysis. Karnac Books
Wright, Elizabeth. (1993)
Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice. Routledge
Wright, Elizabeth. (1999)
Speaking Desires can be Dangerous: The Poetics of the Unconscious. Polity
Anderson, Benedict. (1983/1991)
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso