MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CLS4000

Literary theory

Walter Veit

Synopsis The subject will examine the 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 (8 points) Two essays (3000 words each): 50% each

Assessment (12 points) Two essays (3000 words each): 30% each + One essay (3000 words): 40%

Prescribed texts

• Eagleton T Literary theory: An introduction Blackwell
• Rice P and Waugh P (eds) Modern literary theory: A reader 2nd edn, Edward Arnold
• Selden R A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory Harvester

Recommended texts

• Bloch E and others Aesthetics and politics Verso
• Eagleton T Criticism and ideology Verso
• Freud S The interpretation of dreams Penguin
• Gadamer H.-G Truth and method Seabury
• Habermas J Knowledge and human interest Heinemann
• Innis R (ed.)Semiotics: An introductory anthology Indiana U P
• Irigaray L This sex which is not one Cornell U P
• Kamuf P (ed.)A Derrida reader Columbia U P
• Lacan J Écrits Tavistock
• Lodge D (ed.)Modern criticism and theory Longman
• Moi T (ed.)The Kristeva reader Blackwell