Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-A1E
- Title
- Literary Theory
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- T The course aims at the critical introduction of the main 20th century trends in literary theory, and of the rise of English as a discipline.
- Course content
- Literature and the “Literary”, The Rise of English as a Discipline, Canon Formation; Bourdieu; New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism; Narratology; Bakhtin;;Hermeneutics and Reader-Response Criticism; Psychoanalytic Criticism: Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva; Gender; Foucault, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism; Postcolonial Criticism; Ethically Oriented Criticism; 11
- Assessment method
- end term test: questions pertaining to the handouts, explanation of important passages from the set texts.
- Bibliography
- An e-book containing detailed handouts for each lecture can be downloaded: http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/TimarAndrea/index.html