MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
GRN4600
Theory and practice of literary criticism I: the theory
W Veit
4 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prohibitions:
CLS4000
Synopsis Introduction to the theory, practice and history of literary
criticism. 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; postructuralism, postmodernism and feminist literary
theory.
Assessment Written (3000 words): 60% + Classwork: 40%
Prescribed texts
- Arnold H L and Sinemus V (eds) Grundzüge der Literatur - und
Sprachwissenschaft vol. 1, Literaturwissenschaft DTV
- Eagleton T Literary theory Blackwell
- Goethe J W V Novelle Reclam
- Raabe P Einführung in die Bücherkunde zur deutschen
Literaturwissenschaft Metzler
- 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
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