Syllabus
1. Historical overview, Russian Formalism
2. New Criticism
3. Structuralism
4. Reader-response theory
5. Psychoanalytical criticism
6. Marxist criticism
7. Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism
8. Feminist criticism, Gender studies
9. New Historicism
Annotation
The aim of the course is to outline selected literary theoretical schools, categories and concepts, namely Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Reader Response Criticism, Marxist, Psychoanalytical, Feminist, Structuralist and Poststructuralist Criticism and New Historicism. Practical examples are demonstrated on Shakespeare's King Lear and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.