The Contemporary Western Literary Theory

Course

The Contemporary Western Literary Theory

Course code

Teacher’s name

Feng Jicai

(Zhu Shenghui)

Title

Professor

(Lecturer)

School

Feng Jicai Institute of Literature and Art

Semester

1

Hours

32

Credit

2

Teaching method

Teaching theoretical topics 16 hours,

Reading original theories 8 hours, Discussing literature cases 8 hours.

Course Introduction

20 Century Western literary theories ushered in a golden opportunity for prosperity and development. Whether scientism literary theories (Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction) or humanism literary theories (Psychoanalysis, Archetypal Criticism, Stream of Consciousness, Existentialism, Frankfurt School, Feminism, New Historicism, Post-colonialism), provide us with valuable resources, which are engaged in the research of contemporary literature. The course will take the form of theoretical topics teaching, original theories reading, and literature cases discussing to cultivate students an ability to analyze literature texts and cultural phenomena with appropriate literary theories.

Examination:

Submit an academic paper using 20c western literary theories for text analysis

Teaching Materials

1.ZhuLiyuan, Contemporary Western Literary Theories, East China Normal University Press, 1997

2.Ma Xinguo, Western Literary History, Higher Education Press, 1994

Bibligraphy

1．Eagleton, Wu Xiaoming trans., 20C Western Literary Theories, Shaanxi Normal University Press, 1987

2．Selden eds., Liu Xiangyu trans., Literary Criticism——From Plato to the Present, Peking University Press, 2000

3．Jiang Kongyang eds., Selected Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century Western Aesthetics Theories, Fudan University Press, 1987