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This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?
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Lecture 1 - Introduction to Theory of Literature
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Lecture 2 - Introduction (cont.)
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Lecture 3 - Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle
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Lecture 4 - Configurative Reading
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Lecture 5 - The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork
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Lecture 6 - The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms
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Lecture 7 - Russian Formalism
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Lecture 8 - Semiotics and Structuralism
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Lecture 9 - Linguistics and Literature
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Lecture 10 - Deconstruction I
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Lecture 11 - Deconstruction II
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Lecture 12 - Freud and Fiction
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Lecture 13 - Jacques Lacan in Theory
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Lecture 14 - Influence
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Lecture 15 - The Postmodern Psyche
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Lecture 16 - The Social Permeability of Reader and Text
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Lecture 17 - The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
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Lecture 18 - The Political Unconscious
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Lecture 19 - The New Historicism
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Lecture 20 - The Classical Feminist Tradition
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Lecture 21 - African-American Criticism
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Lecture 22 - Post-Colonial Criticism
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Lecture 23 - Queer Theory and Gender Performativity
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Lecture 24 - The Institutional Construction of Literary Study
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Lecture 25 - The End of Theory? Neo-Pragmatism
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Lecture 26 - Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?
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