Courses

Course title:Development of Literary Criticism
Faculty:Faculty of Arts
Department:Department of English and American Studies
Course code:KAA / 3LIKR
Credits:5
Semester:Winter
Level of study:Mgr.
Format of study:Lecture 2 [Hours/Week]
Name of the lecturer:doc. Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (G)
Language:English
ISCED F broad:Arts and humanities
Annotation:This course surveys the leading theories and methods of Western literary analysis that have developed in the modern era. It aims to familiarize students with a variety of critical approaches to interpreting literary works, to acquaint them with the underlying logic of each approach and its differences from others, and to enable them to apply these methods in their own literary and cultural analyses. Texts - Lois Tyson, Literary Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, 4th ed. (2023) - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus - others as announced and posted (see the course Moodle page)