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Clayton First semester 2007 (Day)
How to turn literary structuralist theory into a workable tool of critical analysis. Origins of structuralism and semiotics as critical systems - the Russian formalist school, C S Peirce and F de Saussure. The critique of structuralism through poststructuralism and deconstruction, especially the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
Three essays (3000 words each): 90%
Seminar participation: 10%
2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week