Critical Theory & Literary Analysis

Module 1

Formalism & New Criticism

New Criticism: Close Reading & the Well-Wrought Urn

Structuralism: Saussure & Narrative Grammar

Narratology: Story, Discourse & Time

Module 1 Quiz

Module 2

Psychoanalysis & the Unconscious

Freudian Psychoanalysis & Literature

Lacanian Theory: Mirror Stage & the Symbolic

Applying Psychoanalysis to Texts

The Uncanny & Gothic Literature

Module 2 Quiz

Module 3

Feminist & Gender Theory

Second-Wave Feminist Criticism: Showalter & Gilbert

Gender Theory: Butler & Performativity

Queer Theory & Literature

Intersectionality: Race, Class & Gender in Literature

Module 3 Quiz

Module 4

Postcolonialism & Deconstruction

Said's Orientalism & Postcolonial Theory

Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?

Derrida & Deconstruction

The Politics of the Canon

Theory-Driven Critical Essay on a Literary Text

Module 4 Quiz

LIT 301Postcolonialism & DeconstructionTheory-Driven Critical Essay on a Literary Text

Capstone Project· 60 min

Theory-Driven Critical Essay on a Literary Text

Writing on the board…

The Politics of the Canon

Module 4 Quiz