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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	-