CRT6000

Critical theory: a survey

(ART)

Andrew Milner

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

Synopsis: Theoretical and methodological foundations for the analysis of literature and culture including hermeneutics and reception theory, cultural materialism and the new historicism, semiology and semiotics, ideology critique and the sociology of culture, post-structuralist theories of difference.

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