EN2D12 ENGLISH LITERATURE, CRITICISM and LITERARY
THEORY
Introduction (RP)
Robert Dale Parker, “Introduction” to How to interpret literature (Oxford
University Press) (HTIL)
Structuralism (ZF)
Parker, HTIL, Ch. 3
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, From "Narration: Levels and Voices" and "Text:
Focalization," Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Deconstruction (ZF)
Parker, HTIL, Ch. 4
J. Hillis Miller, "Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the 'Uncanny'"
Psychoanalysis (MG)
“What is Psychoanalytic Criticism?” (St Martin’s)
Chapter 5. “Psychoanalysis” (HTIL)
Joel Kovel. “On Racism and Psychoanalysis” (compendium)
Janet Adelman. “’Man and Wife is One Flesh’”: Hamlet and the Confrontation
with the Maternal Body” (St Martin’s)
Philip K. Wion. “The Absent Mother in Wuthering Heights” (St Martin’s)
Feminism (MG)
“What is Feminist Criticism” (St Martin’s)
Toril Moi. “Feminist Literary Criticism” (compendium)
Chapter 6. “Feminism” (HTIL)
Elaine Showalter. “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the
Responsibilites of Feminist Criticism” (St Martin’s).
Margaret Homans. “The Name of the Mother in Wuthering Heights”
(compendium)
Queer Studies (MG)
Chapter 7. “Queer Studies” (HTIL)
Eva Kosofsky Sedgwick. From Between Men: English Literature and Male
Homosocial Desire (compendium)
Marxism and Cultural Studies I (RP)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Bedford Case Studies, St. Martin’s)
Parker, HTIL, Chapter 8 Marxism
“What is Marxist Criticism?” (St. Martin’s)
Eagleton, “Myths of Power: a Marxist study of Wuthering Heights” (St.
Martin’s)
Marxism and Cultural Studies II (RP)
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Bedford Case Stduies, St Martin’s)
Bristol, “Funeral Bak’d Meats: Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet” (St.
Martin’s)
New Historicism (MN)
New Historicism
How to Interpret: Historicist Examples
Michel Foucault
Postcolonial and Race Studies (RP)
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Bedford Case Studies, St. Martin’s)
Salman Rushdie, East, West
Parker, HTIL, chapter 10, Postcolonial and Race Studies
Ashcroft, Introduction to The Empire Writes Back Compendium
Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
“Cultural Criticism and Heart of Darkness” (St Martin’s)
Brantlinger, “Heart of Darkness: anti-imperialism, racism or impressionism?”
(St Martin’s)
Rushdie, “Commonwealth Literature Does not Exist” Compendium
Reader Response (MN)
Ideal, Implied, and Actual Readers
Structuralist Models of Reading and Communication
Aesthetic Judgment, Interpretive Communities, and Resisting Readers
Reception Theory and Reception History
Readers and the New Technologies
Cognitive theory (MN)