MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ENH4620

Literary theory

C Probyn

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 Exercise (2000 words): 20% + Seminar paper (1500 words): 20% + Short essay (2000 words): 20% + Long essay (3500 words): 40%, or examination (3 hours): 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, Batsford, 1986

Recommended texts

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

Reference text

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

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