Literary and Cultural Theory (SEES0047)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Teaching department: School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Credit value: 30

Restrictions: N/A
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

The module introduces students to the main currents of literary and cultural theory in the 20th and 21st centuries: Russian formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin鈥檚 thought, French and Czech structuralism, semiotics of the Tartu school, poststructuralism (Derrida, Foucault, the Yale School, New Historicism), phenomenology, hermeneutics and reader - response criticism, psychoanalysis, Marxist and post-Marxist approaches to literature and culture, and gender and postcolonial theories. The module relates these approaches to each other, showing how literary and cultural research may converge, and also relates them to the theories of social research.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Term 1 听听听 Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Coursework
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 22
Module leader: Professor Zoran Milutinovic
Who to contact for more information: ssees-lc@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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