EN6508 - Critical Approaches to Literature | ||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
The course aims to introduce students to major theoretical concepts and critical practices in literary studies. Students will explore and discuss specific writers, genres or themes in the context of literary history and criticism. The critical perspectives that this course explores include structuralism, gender studies, postcolonialism, narratology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism and reader-response theory. Through applying these different theoretical perspectives to the literary texts covered in this course, students will acquire the interpretative and critical analytical skills that are crucial to literature research and writing. Students will generate critical, analytical and creative responses to selected texts throughout the course. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 100% | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
| EN6508.pdf | ||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||
| Department of English | ||||||||
