{"id":22150,"date":"2015-09-03T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=22150"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:36:05","slug":"introduction-to-english-literature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=22150&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to English literature 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong> Introduction to English literature 2
\nCourse coordinators: <\/strong>Dr. Vanja Poli\u0107, Assoc. Prof. and Dr. Sven Cvek<\/span>, Assist. Prof.
\nInstructors<\/strong>: Cvek, Poli\u0107, Domines Veliki, Klepa\u010d, Tutek
\nECTS credits<\/strong>: 2
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English
\nDuration<\/strong>: 1 (summer) semester
\nStatus:<\/strong> obligatory
\nEnrolment requirements<\/strong>: regular attendance and active participation or\u00a0<\/em> a pass mark in Introduction to English literature 1<\/em> is a minimal prerequisite for the enrolment in Introduction to English literature 2<\/em>.
\n<\/strong>
\nCourse type:<\/strong> 1 hour of seminar weekly, the classes will be conducted as 2 hours of seminar every two weeks<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements:<\/strong> The students have to fulfil the requirements of continuous assessment and get a passing grade in their research papers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> The course offers an overview of the main ideas and debates in modern literary theory and serves as a starting point for acquiring the skills needed to critically analyse and engage with a text. Every other week, discussion will focus on a given theoretical approach to show how it illuminates literary and other texts in particular ways. Students will be expected to read a selected shorter work of fiction for in-class discussion and analysis. Students will also be expected to write regular short assignments, as well as a final paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objective:<\/strong> The course\u2019s goal is to enable students to conduct independent research and acquire the basic principles of academic writing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Student obligations:<\/strong> The final grade is based on continuous assessment which includes regular attendance (max. absences allowed: 2), preparation for and participation in class, and timely submission of the final paper. The paper is worth 60%, and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 40% of the final grade. Students must fulfil all elements of continuous assessment to pass the course.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weekly schedule:<\/strong><\/span>
\n*<\/strong><\/span>Students will receive guidelines from the instructor to prepare texts for the next session.
\nWeek 1
\nCourse overview + student obligations
\nAcademic writing skills
\n*Student assignment for week 2<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2
\nStructuralism
\n– Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss (bricolage, mytheme, binary oppositions)
\n– Vladimir Propp (the narrative language of a folktale)
\n– A.J. Greimas (universal grammar of narrative)
\n* Student assignment for week 3<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3
\nPoststructuralism\/deconstruction
\n– Roland Barthes \u201cThe Death of the Author\u201d, S\/Z
\n– logocentrism\/phonocentrism vs. diff\u00e9rance (Jacques Derrida);
\n– misreading, the anxiety of influence\/belatedness (Harold Bloom)
\n– metahistory (Hayden White)
\n* Student assignment for week 4<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4
\nPsychoanalytic criticism
\n– Freud: das Unheimliche\/the uncanny; dreamwork (displacement & condensation); repression & sublimation; ego-superego-id; Oedipus complex
\n– Lacan: displacement\/condensation & metonymy\/metaphor; the real, imaginary, symbolic; mirror stage; other\/Other
\n* Student assignment for week 5<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5
\nFeminist criticism
\n– feminism\/femaleness\/femininity (Toril Moi)
\n– \u00e9criture f\u00e9minine (H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous)
\n– symbolic and semiotic aspect of language (Julia Kristeva)
\n* Student assignment for week 6<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6
\nHistorical materialism
\n– capital; ideology; class; hegemony; structure of feeling; form as \u201cabstract of social relations\u201d; literature and the world-system; totality; cognitive mapping
\n– Leon Trotsky \u201cLiterature and Revolution\u201d; Raymond Williams \u201cMarxism and Literature\u201d; Fredric Jameson \u201cThe Political Unconscious\u201d; Franco Moretti \u201cDistant Reading\u201d (selection)
\n* Student assignment for week 7<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 7
\nPostcolonial theory of culture
\n– colonial\/colonialist literature; colonial tropes; Orientalism (Said); hybridity (Bhabha); cultural diversity vs. cultural difference (Bhabha); mimicry (Lacan\/Fanon\/Bhabha), subaltern (Spivak); synergy (Young); transculturation, multiculturalism, dislocation; abrogation and appropriation (Ashcroft et al), metonymic gap<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading list:<\/strong><\/span>
\n\uf02d Literary texts as selected by individual instructor (provided in class)
\n\uf02d Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Manchester\/New York: Manchester University Press, 2002 (1995). (selection)
\n\uf02d David Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. London\/New York: Longman, 1991 (1988). (selection)
\n\uf02d Vincent B. Leitch, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory. New York\/London: W.W. Norton, 2001. (selection)
\n\uf02d MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th Edition. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Course title: Introduction to English literature 2 Course coordinators: Dr. Vanja Poli\u0107, Assoc. Prof. and Dr. Sven Cvek, Assist. Prof. Instructors: Cvek, Poli\u0107, Domines Veliki, Klepa\u010d, Tutek ECTS credits: 2 Language: English Duration: 1 (summer) semester Status: obligatory Enrolment requirements: regular attendance and active participation or\u00a0 a pass mark in Introduction to English literature 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-semestar-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22150"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34655,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions\/34655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}