Literary Theory

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This course familiarizes students with theories that attempt to account for the specificity of the literary object. Discussion will focus on questions of reading and interpretation, linguistics and poetics, narrative, rhetoric, genre, literature and the arts, or politics and education. We will survey the major schools of modern and postmodern literary criticism and theory, including formalism, psychoanalysis, gender and race theory, genre theory, new historicism and cultural studies, post-colonial criticism, deconstruction, among others.