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LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY I COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL301 LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY I 5 3 3 8

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - Orientation to Course. What is literary criticism? Main approaches to reading literature. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
2 Reading the Material Assigned Classical literary theory: extracts from Plato, Aristotle, Horace Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
3 Reading the Material Assigned Medieval theory and criticism: extracts from Plotinus, Hugh of St. Victor, Augustine, Dante Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
4 Reading the Material Assigned Renaissance, Neoclassical, and Romantic period: extracts from Pierre Corneille, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Sir Philip Sidney, Coleridge, Schiller Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
5 Reading the Material Assigned French Structuralism and the Linguistic Turn: Saussure, Todorov, Propp Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
6 Reading the Material Assigned French Structuralism: Greimas, Lévi-Strauss, Genette Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
7 Reading the Material Assigned Russian Formalism: Shklovsky, Jakobson Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Reading the Material Assigned Russian Formalism: Bakhtin Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
10 Reading the Material Assigned American New Criticism: William K. Wimsatt Jr. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
11 Reading the Material Assigned American New Criticism: Monroe C. Beardsley, Cleanth Brooks Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
12 Reading the Material Assigned Marxist Critical Theory: Karl Marx, Adorno Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
13 Reading the Material Assigned Benjamin, Althusser Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
14 Reading the Material Assigned Benjamin, Althusser Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
15 Reading the Material Assigned Lukács, Brecht, Jameson Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -