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Introduction to Theory of Literature

This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? (from oyc.yale.edu )

Instructor

Professor Paul H. Fry.

Literature

2009

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - Introduction (cont.)

Lecture 03 - Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle

Lecture 04 - Configurative Reading

Lecture 05 - The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork

Lecture 06 - The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms

Lecture 07 - Russian Formalism

Lecture 08 - Semiotics and Structuralism

Lecture 09 - Linguistics and Literature

Lecture 10 - Deconstruction I

Lecture 11 - Deconstruction II

Lecture 12 - Freud and Fiction

Lecture 13 - Jacques Lacan in Theory

Lecture 14 - Influence

Lecture 15 - The Postmodern Psyche

Lecture 16 - The Social Permeability of Reader and Text

Lecture 17 - The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory

Lecture 18 - The Political Unconscious

Lecture 19 - The New Historicism

Lecture 20 - The Classical Feminist Tradition

Lecture 21 - African-American Criticism

Lecture 22 - Post-Colonial Criticism

Lecture 23 - Queer Theory and Gender Performativity

Lecture 24 - The Institutional Construction of Literary Study

Lecture 25 - The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism

Lecture 26 - Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?