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    This document outlines the course contents and assignments for a Literary Theories and Criticism course. The course will cover major literary theories from Classicism to Postmodernism. It will be taught in sections by different instructors and cover 14 specific theories. Students will write 3-5 term papers on theories, covering their history, theorists, principles, strengths/weaknesses. Papers on pre-modern theories can be co-written; modern/postmodern theories must be individual papers synthesizing research. Students should analyze a theory's application to a literary text if possible. Suggested references are provided to help with researching each theory's limitations, questions critics ask, and analytical approaches.

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    This document outlines the course contents and assignments for a Literary Theories and Criticism course. The course will cover major literary theories from Classicism to Postmodernism. It will be taught in sections by different instructors and cover 14 specific theories. Students will write 3-5 term papers on theories, covering their history, theorists, principles, strengths/weaknesses. Papers on pre-modern theories can be co-written; modern/postmodern theories must be individual papers synthesizing research. Students should analyze a theory's application to a literary text if possible. Suggested references are provided to help with researching each theory's limitations, questions critics ask, and analytical approaches.

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    This document outlines the course contents and assignments for a Literary Theories and Criticism course. The course will cover major literary theories from Classicism to Postmodernism. It will be taught in sections by different instructors and cover 14 specific theories. Students will write 3-5 term papers on theories, covering their history, theorists, principles, strengths/weaknesses. Papers on pre-modern theories can be co-written; modern/postmodern theories must be individual papers synthesizing research. Students should analyze a theory's application to a literary text if possible. Suggested references are provided to help with researching each theory's limitations, questions critics ask, and analytical approaches.

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    Course Title: Literary Theories and Criticism I: From Classicism to (Post)Modernism

    Course code: Lite. 701

    I. Course Contents

    1. Classicism (by Meron . . . )


    2. Neo-Classicism (by Daniel . . . )
    3. Romanticism (by Yitayew . . . )
    4. Naturalism and Realism (by Hilina . . . )
    5. Formalism: New Criticism and Russian Formalism (by Meron . . .)
    6. Marxist Criticism (by Daniel . . . )
    7. Psychoanalytic Criticism (by Yitayew . . . )
    8. Mythological and Archetypal Criticism (by Hilina . . . )
    9. Structuralist Criticism (by Meron . . .)
    10. Poststructuralist Criticism and Deconstructive Criticism (by Daniel. . .)
    11. Reader-response and Reception Theory (by Meron . . . )
    12. Feminist Criticism (by Yitayew . . . )
    13. Modernism and postmodernism (by Hilina . . . )
    14. Postcolonial Criticism (by Daniel . . .)
    15. Recent Trends: New Historicism, cultural Studies, Ecocriticism
     Cultural Studies (by Hilina. . . )
     Ecocriticism (by Yitayew . . . .)

    II. Assignments or Term Papers for Lite.701

    1. Each student (Ph.D. candidate) will write from 3 to 5 term papers (assignments) depending on
    the total number of students who are doing the course.
    2. Assignments on those pre-modern literary theories and criticism (see no.1—4 above) would
    be done/written and presented in pairs.
    3. Assignments on the 20th century literary theories—i.e., modernist and postmodernist literary
    theories—would be done individually (see no.5–15 above). Then, each student is expected to
    write (and orally present in class discussions) at least 3 assignments on any three of the
    modernist and postmodernist literary theories. In so doing, the student is highly advised to make
    the utmost efforts to read a number of appropriate and recent sources, so that s/he will be able to
    synthesize and write a complete and detailed description—historical, theoretical,

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    analytical/critical overview—of a given literary theory, which must include these (and other)
    points:

     Historical background of the emergence of a given theory


     Key theorists or proponents
     Theoretical tenets/assumptions/principles
     Strengths or advantages
     Weaknesses/limitations (or criticisms/objections to the theory)
     Key terms
     Questions asked by the respective critics about literary texts (and/or critical, analytical and
    interpretive activities or tasks performed by critics)

    4. Optional assignment
    If possible, try your hand at applying the theories you studied for a practical reading of a literary
    text (a poem, a short story, a novel, or a play) of your choice.

    Note on accessible/user-friendly books with visible chapter (sub)sections:

    1. The weaknesses/limitations of—or objections to—some of the 20th century literary theories have
    been stipulated in A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (2005) by Wilfred L. Guerin,
    et al. and in Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts (2007) by Thomas A. Schmitz (these can
    be easily identified, in both books, in the subheadings which consist of the words “limitations”
    and “objections”). Both strengths (advantages) and weaknesses (criticisms) of each theory are
    described in the chapter subsections entitled “Relevance” in A Short History of Literary Theory
    (2008) by Petru Golban and Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu.
    2. In order to understand the types of questions the respective critics ask about literary texts, the
    best place to begin is Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (2006) by Lois Tyson, in
    which there are two subsections entitled “Some questions . . . critics ask about literary texts” and
    “Questions for further practice . . .”. In addition, in Beginning Theory (2002) by Peter Barry and
    A Short History of Literary Theory (2008) by Petru Golban and Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu, there
    are chapter subsections entitled “What . . . critics do” and “Application”, respectively. These
    subsections contain a list of critical (analytical and interpretive) activities or tasks performed by
    critics when they apply the given literary theory to the practical reading (analysis and
    interpretation) of literary texts (novels, short stories, poems and plays).

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