MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ENM4620/5620

Literary theory

Clive Probyn

8 or 12 points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis This subject will examine modern theories of literary criticism, including formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, phenomenological, Freudian, Jungian, and semiotic strategies. Topics will include speech act theory, repetition, dialogism, archetypes, signified and signifier, hermeneutics, feminocentric reading, metafiction and the narcissistic narrative, supplementarity, poetics.

Assessment (8 points) Assignment/s (2500 words): 40% + Essay (3500 words): 60%

Assessment (12 points) Exercise (2000 words): 20% + Seminar paper (1500 words): 20% + Short essay (2000 words): 20% + Long essay (3500 words) or a 3-hour examination: 40%

Prescribed texts

Literary theory Books 1 and 2 Department of English, Monash U, 1994
Jefferson A and Robey D Modern literary theory 2nd edn, 1986

Recommended texts

Sarup M An introductory guide to poststructuralism and postmodernism 2nd edn, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993

Reference

Hawthorn J A concise glossary of contemporary literary theory Edward Arnold, 1992

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