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(ENL157) -  Μαριάνθη Γιαννή

Beschreibung des Kurses

This graduate course concentrates on twentieth-century Theory of the Novel, but also investigates earlier critical writings and relates theory to practice through textual examples from the diachronic development of the British novel. The main purpose is to familiarize students with major theoretical approaches to the novel as a distinct genre, as well as to teach them to use the theoretical models as tools for the analysis of particular novels. Offering a broad selection of key theoretical texts the course juxtaposes traditional with more recent developments, featuring discussions on formalism, structuralism, narratology, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, reader-response, Marxism, feminism, post-colonialism, and more. Regarding the novel as a cultural product undergoing constant changes, the overall approach attempts to contextualize developments in novel theory, focusing on both the formalist and ideological tenets of the genre.

Apart from active involvement in class discussions, the students are expected to offer oral presentations on seminal writings (by Henry James, Gerard Genet, Roland Barthes, Tzvetan Todorov, Wayne Booth, Vladimir Propp, Georg Lukacs, Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Nancy Armstrong, Edward Said, Hommi Babha, Fredric Jameson etc.), as well as submit written research assignments analysing novels of different periods from particular theoretical perspectives.

 

 

 

Creation Date

Freitag, 10. September 2010