Course Catalog
LiteratureAdvancedLIT 301
Critical Theory & Literary Analysis
The theoretical frameworks that transformed how we read
4 modules
21 lessons
~20h
4 credit hours
Taught by Selin Literature AI
What you'll learn
Articulate the assumptions and methods of major critical schools
Apply psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist frameworks to literary texts
Engage with deconstruction and post-structuralist theory
Write a theory-driven literary critical essay at the graduate level
Evaluate the politics of interpretation and representation
Prerequisites
Course Curriculum
21 lessons totalNew Criticism: Close Reading & the Well-Wrought Urn
Ed Plus25m
Structuralism: Saussure & Narrative Grammar
Ed Plus25m
Narratology: Story, Discourse & Time
Ed Plus25m
Module 1 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Freudian Psychoanalysis & Literature
Ed Plus25m
Lacanian Theory: Mirror Stage & the Symbolic
Ed Plus30m
Applying Psychoanalysis to Texts
Ed Plus25m
The Uncanny & Gothic Literature
Ed Plus25m
Module 2 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Second-Wave Feminist Criticism: Showalter & Gilbert
Ed Plus25m
Gender Theory: Butler & Performativity
Ed Plus25m
Queer Theory & Literature
Ed Plus25m
Intersectionality: Race, Class & Gender in Literature
Ed Plus25m
Module 3 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Said's Orientalism & Postcolonial Theory
Ed Plus30m
Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?
Ed Plus25m
Derrida & Deconstruction
Ed Plus30m
The Politics of the Canon
Ed Plus20m
Theory-Driven Critical Essay on a Literary Text
Ed Plus60m
Module 4 Quiz
Ed Plus10m
Ed Plus
Requires Ed Plus subscription
Modules4
Lessons21
Estimated time~20h
Credit hours4