English 113MI
Modern Literary Theory From Formalism to Cultural Studies
UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Course
Instructor: Alan Liu
Winter 2013 Tue, Thur 2 - 4 PM, Phelps Hall 3519
Office Hours: Thur 4-5, South Hall 2521
An introduction to modern literary theory focusing on some of the important 20th-century movements that have led up to the present moment of literary study. Readings in American New Criticism (Ransom, Brooks, Wimsatt), Russian Formalism (Shklovsky, Tomashevsky, Eichenbaum), structuralism (Saussure, Lévi-Strauss), deconstruction (Barthes, Derrida, de Man), cultural studies and New Historicism (Foucault, Geertz, Clastres, Montrose, Greenblatt), and postmodernism (Jameson, Baudrillard, Haraway, Lyotard).
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