Open Yale: Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)

1. Introduction
   
2. Introduction (cont.)
   
3. Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle
   
4. Configurative Reading
   
5. The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork
   
6. The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms
   
7. Russian Formalism
   
8. Semiotics and Structuralism
   
9. Linguistics and Literature
   
10. Deconstruction I
    
11. Deconstruction II
    
12. Freud and Fiction
    
13. Jacques Lacan in Theory
    
14. Influence
    
15. The Postmodern Psyche
    
16. The Social Permeability of Reader and Text
    
17. The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
    
18. The Political Unconscious
    
19. The New Historicism
    
20. The Classical Feminist Tradition
    
21. African-American Criticism
    
22. Post-Colonial Criticism
    
23. Queer Theory and Gender Performativity
    
24. The Institutional Construction of Literary Study
    
25. The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism
    
26. Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?
    

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