Critical Theory (Part 2) 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

OBJECTIVES:
1. To Introduce issues of current Critical Theory
2. To study theories in contect, the emphasis is on understanding how "Theory actually works"
3. To focus on the following major Critical Theories;

a) Structuralism and Semiotics
b) Deconstruction and Post-Structuralism
c) Marxism and Marxist theory
d) Post-Colonial Criticism
f) Feminist Theory and Criticism

TEXT:
1. Roland Barthes : From Work to Text
2. Mikhail Bakhtin : Discourse in the Novel (extract) (2nd Test) - Guide 1 | Guide 2
3. Gayatri Spivak : Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism (2nd Test)
4. J. Hillis Miller : "Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida and the 'Dislocation of Souls'
5. Helene Cixous : Laugh of the Medesa
6. Michel Foucault : Scientia Sexualis (2nd Test), We the Victorians (2nd Test)
7. Aijaz Ahmad : Introduction: Literature among the Signs of our Time(extract) in "In Theory"
8. Jacques Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Science.