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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

MPhil English Studies Literature and Philosophy Syllabus


REN 237: Literature and Philosophy                                                60 Hours

Objectives:
To introduce to the problems, theories and concepts of literary criticism, from the Anglo-American New Criticism to Deconstruction to Postmodernism.
To  place modern theories in the philosophical and aesthetic context in which they originated and evolved.

Unit I
The Philosophical and Aesthetic Foundations of Literary Theories



Kant, Hegel, and Literary Theory



From Romanticism and Young Hegelianism to Nietzsche







Anglo-American New Criticism and Russian Formalism



Kant and Croce in the New Criticism



Russian Formalism between Kantianism and the Avant-Garde



The Aborted Dialogue between Marxists and Formalists

Unit II




Czech Structuralism Between Kant, Hegel, and the Avant-Grade



Roman Jakobson's and Jan Mukarovsky's Kantianism



Hegel and the Avant-Grade in Mukarovsky's Theory: Structure, Function, Norm, and Value



Symbol and Aesthetic Object: From Mukarovsky to Vodicka






Problems of Reader-Response Criticism: from Hermeneutics to Phenomenology



From Gadamer to Jauss: The Hermeneutics of Reader-Response



From Ingarden to Iser: The Phenomenological Perspective



Stanley Fish's Alternative





From marxism to Critical Theory and Postmodernism



Marx, Lukacs and Goldmann: Hegelian Aesthetics



Benjamin and Adorno between Kant and Hegel: Avant-Garde, Ambiguity, and Truth



Mikhail M. Bakhtin's Young Hegelian Aesthetics



Marxist Aesthetics in a Postmodern World: Alex Callinicos, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson



Unit III



The Aesthetics of Semiotics: Greimas, Eco, Barthes



Greimas or the Search for Meaning



Umberto Eco: From the Avant-Grade to Postmodernism



Roland Barthes' Nietzschean Aesthetics





The Nietzschean Aesthetics of Deconstruction



The Philosophical Origins of Deconstruction: From Platonism and Hegelianism to Nietzsche and Heidegger



Derrida's Romantic and Nietzschean Heritage: ecriture, iterabilite, differance



Derrida on Mallarme and Jean-Pierre Richard



Paul de Man: Allegory and Aporia



J. Hillis Miller: Aporia, Repetition, Iterability



Geoffrey H. Hartman: Negativity, Delay, Indeterminacy





Lyotard's Postmodern Aesthetics and Kant's Notion of the Sublime



From Kant to Lyotard: Postmodern Aesthetics of Disharmony



Lyotard and de Man: the Sublime, Allegory, and Aporia



Unit  IV




Towards a Critical Theory of Literature



Literary Theory between Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche



Towards a Critique of Ideology: Ideology as Sociolect and Discourse



Towards a Critical Theory of Literature



Bibliography
Eldreidge, Richard, ed. The oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Malden: Blacwell, 2004. Print.
Simons, Jon. From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to cotemporary Critical Theory. Edinburg: Edinburg UP, 2002. Print.
Zima, Peter V. The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory.  London: The Athlone P., 1999. Print.

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