REN 237:
Literature and Philosophy 60
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Objectives:
To introduce
to the problems, theories and concepts of literary criticism, from the
Anglo-American New Criticism to Deconstruction to Postmodernism.
To place modern theories in the philosophical
and aesthetic context in which they originated and evolved.
Unit I
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The Philosophical and
Aesthetic Foundations of Literary Theories
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Kant, Hegel, and Literary Theory
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From Romanticism and Young Hegelianism to
Nietzsche
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Anglo-American
New Criticism and Russian Formalism
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Kant and Croce in the New Criticism
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Russian Formalism between Kantianism and
the Avant-Garde
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The Aborted Dialogue between Marxists and
Formalists
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Unit II
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Czech
Structuralism Between Kant, Hegel, and the Avant-Grade
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Roman Jakobson's and Jan Mukarovsky's
Kantianism
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Hegel and the Avant-Grade in Mukarovsky's
Theory: Structure, Function, Norm, and Value
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Symbol and Aesthetic Object: From Mukarovsky
to Vodicka
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Problems
of Reader-Response Criticism: from Hermeneutics to Phenomenology
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From Gadamer to Jauss: The Hermeneutics of
Reader-Response
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From Ingarden to Iser: The Phenomenological
Perspective
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Stanley Fish's Alternative
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From
marxism to Critical Theory and Postmodernism
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Marx, Lukacs and Goldmann: Hegelian
Aesthetics
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Benjamin and Adorno between Kant and Hegel:
Avant-Garde, Ambiguity, and Truth
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Mikhail M. Bakhtin's Young Hegelian
Aesthetics
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Marxist Aesthetics in a Postmodern World:
Alex Callinicos, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson
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Unit III
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The
Aesthetics of Semiotics: Greimas, Eco, Barthes
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Greimas or the Search for Meaning
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Umberto Eco: From the Avant-Grade to
Postmodernism
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Roland Barthes' Nietzschean Aesthetics
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The
Nietzschean Aesthetics of Deconstruction
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The Philosophical Origins of
Deconstruction: From Platonism and Hegelianism to Nietzsche and Heidegger
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Derrida's Romantic and Nietzschean
Heritage: ecriture, iterabilite, differance
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Derrida on Mallarme and Jean-Pierre Richard
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Paul de Man: Allegory and Aporia
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J. Hillis Miller: Aporia, Repetition,
Iterability
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Geoffrey H. Hartman: Negativity, Delay,
Indeterminacy
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Lyotard's
Postmodern Aesthetics and Kant's Notion of the Sublime
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From Kant to Lyotard: Postmodern Aesthetics
of Disharmony
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Lyotard and de Man: the Sublime, Allegory,
and Aporia
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Unit IV
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Towards
a Critical Theory of Literature
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Literary Theory between Kant, Hegel, and
Nietzsche
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Towards a Critique of Ideology: Ideology as
Sociolect and Discourse
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Towards a Critical Theory of Literature
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Bibliography
Eldreidge, Richard, ed. The oxford Handbook of
Philosophy and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.
John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of
Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Malden: Blacwell, 2004. Print.
Simons, Jon. From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The
Background to cotemporary Critical Theory. Edinburg: Edinburg UP, 2002. Print.
Zima, Peter V. The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory. London: The Athlone P., 1999. Print.
