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| 0680-5129-01 | Contemporary Literary Theories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Contemporary Literary Theories
This course will introduce some of the important and influential trajectories in the literary theory of the last decade. We will discuss the shift from Comparative Literature to World Literature, the developments in postcolonial theory and the critique of secularism, contemporary queer theory and affect theory. The course will present each theoretical trajectory, the scholarly motivations behind it, and the ways in which it might change the procedures of literary reading. Together with theoretical writings we will also read literary texts