Course: Literary Criticism in English Literature

Instructor: Dr. Seyyed Shahabeddin Sadati

 

 

 

1st Week          Introduction: Significance of the Course

2nd Week        Russian Formalism

3rd Week         AmericanNew Criticism

4th Week         Psychoanalytic Criticism (Sigmund Freud)

5th Week         Psychoanalytic Criticism (Carl Jung)

6th Week         Psychoanalytic Criticism (Jacques Lacan)

7th Week         Feminism (Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Gender Theory)

8th Week         Feminism (French Feminism and Female Writing)

9th Week         Modernity: Structuralism (Ferdinand de Saussure)

10th Week       Postmodernism: Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction (Jacques Derrida)

11th Week       Reader-Oriented Criticism (Wolfgang Isser)

12th Week       Reader-Oriented Criticism (Hans Robert Jauss and Norman Holland)

13th Week       Postcolonialism (Edward Said)

14th Week       Postcolonialism (Homi Bhabha)

15th Week       Ecocriticism

16th Week       Review

 

 

 

Sources:

 

Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Fifth Edition, London: Longman, 2011.