SignUpIntroduction to Theory of Literature
Yale,, Spring 2009 , Prof. Paul H. Fry
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
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Yale,, Spring 2009 , Prof. Paul H. Fry
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
Introduction - Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle - Configurative Reading - The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork - The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms - Russian Formalism - Semiotics and Structuralism - Linguistics and Literature - Deconstruction - Freud and Fiction - Jacques Lacan in Theory - Influence - The Postmodern Psyche - The Social Permeability of Reader and Text - The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory - The Political Unconscious - The New Historicism - The Classical Feminist Tradition - African-American Criticism - Post-Colonial Criticism - Queer Theory and Gender Performativity - The Institutional Construction of Literary Study - The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism - Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now?
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Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)
In this lecture on the work of Roman Jakobson, Professor Paul Fry continues his discussion of synchrony and diachrony. The relationships among formalism, semiotics, and linguistics are explored. Claude Levi-Strausss structural interpretation of the Oedipus myth is discussed in some detail. In order to differentiate Jakobsons poetic functions, Professor Fry analyzes the sentence "It is raining" from six perspectives. Significant attention is paid to the use of diagrams in literary linguistic theory.
0000 - Chapter 1. Synchrony and Diachrony
0647 - Chapter 2. The Emergence of Structuralism
1124 - Chapter 3. The Relationship Between Formalism and Semiotics
1733 - Chapter 4. Levi-Strauss and the Meaning of the Oedipus Myth
2619 - Chapter 5. The Poetic Function
3249 - Chapter 6. Jacobsons Six Functions
4353 - Chapter 7. Metalanguage and Poetic Function
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpopen.yale.educourses
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
Sam
Sep 12, 2018
Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.
Dembe
March 29, 2019
Great course. Thank you very much.
