ML 531 Theory and Criticism
This course, designed for beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduates considering graduate studies, provides an introduction to major developments in critical theory from ancient to modern times. The course examines a wide range of critical, philosophical and political approaches to the study of literature and culture, including Marxism, formalism, structuralism, post structuralism, postmodernism and feminism. Readings will include Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Foucault, Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Cixous, and others.