GRN4345

Theory and practice of literary criticism II: the practice

W Veit

4 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
* Corequisite: a fourth-year language core subject
* Prohibitions: CLS4000

Objectives On successful completion of this subject and GRN4335, students should have become aware of a number of classical and modern theories of literature and literary criticism, and should have learned to relate them to basic principles of understanding in the humanities and apply them to select texts of modern writing.

Synopsis Introduction to the practice and history of literary criticism. The subject will examine the 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; post-structuralism, post-modernism and feminist literary theory, and forms of contemporary literary criticism.

Assessment Written (3000 words): 60%
* Classwork: 40%

Prescribed texts

As for GRN4335