About the Course
This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

Course Structure
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring, 2009.

Professor
Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor of English

Description
This is a survey of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. Lectures will provide background for the readings and explicate them where appropriate, while attempting to develop a coherent overall context that incorporates philosophical and social perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

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| Lecture 9 - Linguistics and Literature.txt             517 Byte
| Lecture 8 - Semiotics and Structuralism.txt             482 Byte
| Lecture 7 - Russian Formalism.txt             524 Byte
| Lecture 6 - The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms.txt             546 Byte
| Lecture 5 - The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork.txt             490 Byte
| Lecture 4 - Configurative Reading.txt             692 Byte
| Lecture 3 - Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle.txt             526 Byte
| Lecture 26.txt             652 Byte
| Lecture 25.txt             765 Byte
| Lecture 24 - The Institutional Construction of Literary Study.txt             612 Byte
| Lecture 23 - Queer Theory and Gender Performativity.txt             605 Byte
| Lecture 22 - Post-Colonial Criticism.txt             587 Byte
| Lecture 21 - African-American Criticism.txt             711 Byte
| Lecture 20 - The Classical Feminist Tradition.txt             760 Byte
| Lecture 2 - Introduction (cont.).txt             634 Byte
| Lecture 19 - The New Historicism.txt             522 Byte
| Lecture 18 - The Political Unconscious.txt             787 Byte
| Lecture 17 - The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.txt             623 Byte
| Lecture 16 - The Social Permeability of Reader and Text.txt             617 Byte
| Lecture 15 - The Postmodern Psyche.txt             460 Byte
| Lecture 14 - Influence.txt             713 Byte
| Lecture 13 - Jacques Lacan in Theory.txt             560 Byte
| Lecture 12 - Freud and Fiction.txt             816 Byte
| Lecture 11 - Deconstruction II.txt             705 Byte
| Lecture 10 - Deconstruction I.txt             556 Byte
| Lecture 1 - Introduction.txt             489 Byte
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