CRT4000

Critical and literary theory

(ART)

Proposed to be offered next in 2001

Philip Thomson

12 points + 3 hours per week + Clayton + Prohibitions: GNM4335 and GNM4345

Synopsis: Theory and practice of a number of the major schools in contemporary literary criticism: hermeneutics and reception theory; semiotics and structuralism; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalytic criticism; poststructuralism, postmodernism and feminist literary theory.

Assessment: Two essays (3000 words each) 30% each + Essay (3000 words): 40%