Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
- Code
- BBI-SKA18-302
- Title
- Introduction to the literatures of Scandinavia 2.
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The course aims: To give a general knowledge of the field and to provide the students with reading material required for this purpose. To understand how the different schools of literary theory developed out of the historical context, and how they entered into dialogue with each other. To practice the methods of literary theory by analysing literary texts.
- Course content
- COURSE OBJECTIVES The course focuses on the 19–20th-century history of literary criticism and how to practice literary theory. Review of the major schools of literary criticism from positivistic to contemporary approaches. Study of major twentieth-century theories and applications: positivism, Geistesgeschichte, formalism, archetypal, New Criticism, literary hermeneutics, structuralism, psychoanalytic readings, reader-response, feminism, postcolonialism, intertextuality, deconstruction, intermediality.
- Assessment method
- exam
- Bibliography
- Recommended readings 1. Cain, William E. and Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Norton & Company, 2001. 2. Benjamin, Walter: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischer Reproduzierbarkeit, IN: Werke und Nachlass, Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Band 16. Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2013. 3. Paul De Man: Autobiography as De-facement, MLN Vol. 94, No. 5, Comparative literature, 1979 4. Culler, Jonathan: Literary Theory – A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. 5. Frye, Northrop: Anatomy of Criticism. Four Essays. Princeton University Press, 2000 (1957). 6. Genette, Gérard: Die Erzählung, ford. Andreas Knop, Fink, 2010. 7. Newton, K. M. (szerk.): Twentieth-Century Literary Theory, Macmillan, 1988. 8. Wellek, René – Warren, Austin: Theory of Literature, Brace & World, 1956 (1942). Wood, James: How Fiction Works, Picador, 2009.