Literary Criticism Class #11. Postmodernism 1. After modernism? 2. Contra modernism?
Literary Criticism Class #1. What Is Theory? “a reasonably systematic reflection on our guiding assumptions” (Terry Eagleton, After Theory, p.2)
Literary Criticism Class #2. The distinctive doctrine of structuralism: “the belief that the individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue.
Literary Criticism Class #1. Structuralism “Linguistics is not simply a stimulus and source of inspiration but a methodological model which unifies the.
Literary Criticism Class #6. Roland Barthes “” (1968) “ The Death of the Author ” (1968) The article is “ the ‘ hinge ’ round which Barthes turns from.
Literary Criticism Class #8. Feminist Criticism The premise that unites all feminist critics is “the assumption that Western culture is fundamentally.
Literary Criticism Class #7. Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (1926-1984) (1926-1984)
Literary Criticism Class #13. Baudrillard Stage #1: The sign represents a basic reality.
Literary Criticism Class #5. Russian Formalism History 1915 The Moscow Linguistic Circle founded 1916 The Petrograd “Society for the Study of Poetic.
Literary Criticism Class # 12. Postmodernism is an age of simulation and simulacra.