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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: Plato, Aristotle, Horace Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
3 Reading the Material Assigned Neo-Platonism, Medieval theory and criticism: Plotinus, Hugh of St. Victor, Augustine, Dante Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
4 Reading the Material Assigned Renaissance: Sir Philip Sidney Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
5 Reading the Material Assigned Neoclassical literary theory and Enlightenment: Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Pierre Corneille Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
6 Reading the Material Assigned Pre-Romantic period: Hegel’s dialectic theory Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
7 Reading the Material Assigned Romantic period: Wordsworth, Colleridge, Schiller Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
8 Reading the Material Assigned Realism and Naturalism: George Eliot, Émile Zola Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
9 Reading the Material Assigned French Structuralism and the Linguistic Turn: Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
10 - MID-TERM EXAM -
11 Reading the Material Assigned Deconstruction: Derrida Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
12 Reading the Material Assigned Russian Formalism: Shklovsky, Jakobson Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
13 Reading the Material Assigned Russian Formalism: Bakhtin Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
14 Reading the Material Assigned American New Criticism: William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
15 Reading the Material Assigned Revision Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -