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