HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: School of Ancient & Modern Literatures

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Yoav Rinon

Coordinator Email: yoav.rinon@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: First semester: Monday, 11.30-12.30,
Second semester, Monday, 14.30-15.30

Teaching Staff:
Prof Yoav Rinon

Course/Module description:
During the course we will read various theoreticians of literature, paying special attention to the historical development of the concept of literary theory.

Course/Module aims:
Acquaintance with central trends and theories in literary theories in the 20th century.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To characterize the development of the concept of literary theory and to exemplify it, starting from the linguistics od de Saussure and terminating with the post-colonialism of the end of the 20th century.

Attendance requirements(%):
100%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal lecturing

Course/Module Content:
17.3 Introduction: From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism; Structuralism in Linguistics: Ferdinand de Saussure.
24.3 Structuralism in Anthropology and Literature: Levi-Strauss.
31.3 From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism: Roland Barthes.
21.4 Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Northrop Frye.
28.4 Memorial day. No lesson.
5.5 Structuralism/Post-Structuralism and Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan.
12.5 Conference Realism and Romanticism. No Lesson.
19.5 Deconstruction: Derrida reads Levi Strauss.
26.5 The Reader: Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish.
2.6 Marxism: Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin.
9.6 History and Literature: Hayden White, Michel Foucault.
16.6 Feminism: Virginia Woolf, Katharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin; Feminism and Lesbianism: Adrienne Rich.
23.6 Queer Theory: Essentialism versus Social Constructionism: John Boswell and David Halperin; Queer Theory and Jewish Studies: Daniel Boyarin.
30.6 Post Colonialism: Edward Said and Frantz Fanon.

Required Reading:
Included in the course content section. The files will be on the moodle.

Additional Reading Material:
Will be on the moodle

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
Laptops and cellphones are not allowed during the lesson.