Introduction to literary theory 2510-f1ENG2S-ILT-L
The lecture presents an overview of contemporary literary criticism and theory with the aim to familiarise students with basic theoretical approaches and critical methods, and to supply them with tools to analyse literary and/or critical texts.
Content distribution:
- 20th-century institutionalisation of literary studies
- New Criticism
- structuralism
- semiotics
- psychoanalysis
- political criticism
- feminist criticism
- postmodernism
- poststructuralism
- postcolonial criticism
- cultural criticism
- ecocriticism
Total student workload
Learning outcomes - knowledge
Learning outcomes - skills
Learning outcomes - social competencies
Teaching methods
Expository teaching methods
- informative (conventional) lecture
Exploratory teaching methods
- classic problem-solving
Online teaching methods
Prerequisites
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
A graded credit based on:
Test – W1
Activity – U1, K1
Assessment criteria:
- participation in lectures – oral assignments and comments on Moodle (35%)
- final test (65%)
very good – 91-100 %
good plus – 86-90 %
good – 76-85 %
satisfactory plus – 70-75 %
satisfactory – 60-69 %
fail – 0-59 %
Practical placement
N/A
Additional information
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