- Code
- ELL 401
- Name
- An Approaches to Literary Criticism
- Semester
- 1
- Lecture hours
- 4.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 4.00
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
Approaches to literary theory and criticism constantly change – from the time of Plato and Aristotle to the present day, critics and philosophers have debated the big questions regarding literature. This course addresses these questions: What makes good literature? What is literature good for? How should literature be interpreted? What is the relationship between the author, text, reader and the world?
- Objectives
-
The students will recognize, understand, and appreciate the different perspectives in which literature can be read and criticized. The students will understand the practical value in understanding how the historical attitudes about literature shaped literary theory and criticism. Finally, this course will give the students the solid analytical tools for their own work in literary criticism.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Course Introduction Theory, Moral Criticism, Hermeneutics
- 2
- New Criticism, Formalism, Neo-Aristotelean Criticism
- 3
- Psychoanalytic Criticism, Archetypal Criticism
- 4
- Brainstorm – Paper Outline: Archetypal Patterns in Groundhog Day
- 5
- Marxist Criticism
- 6
- Reader Response
- 7
- NO CLASS – Midterm Exam (Take-home exam)
- 8
- Semiotics/Structuralism
- 9
- Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism-1
- 10
- Winter Break
- 11
- Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism-2ew Historicism, Cultural Studies
- 12
- New Historicism, Cultural Studies
- 13
- Feminist Criticism and Gender, Queer Studies Ecocriticism, Critical Race Theory
- 14
- Student Presentations
- 15
- NO CLASS – Final Exam (Take-home exam)
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Understand the historical progress and basic elements of literary theory and criticism.
- 2
- Improve speaking and writing skills.
- 3
- Enhance analytical skills in reading and writing on works of literature.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 20% 20%
- Term projects
- 1 30% 30%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 70%
- Final exam percent
- 30%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 5 70
- Duties
- 2 6 12
- Midterms
- 1 2 2
- Final exam
- 1 2 2
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 150
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 6.00
- ECTS
- 6.00