CRT6010

Critical theory: an approach

(ART)

Kevin Hart

8 points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis: An analysis of /negativity0 in the work of Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot, with the help of critical theorists including Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva. Issues include difference, interpretation, nothingness, reading, repression, the unsayable and writing.

Assessment: Two essays (3000 words each): 100% each