Literary & Cultural Studies

Literary & Cultural Studies

1. Theoretical Overview

   • New Criticism
   • Feminists/Gender/Queer
   • Postcolonialism
   • Cultural Studies
   • Media Studies
   • Ecocriticism
   • Film Studies
   • What is Literature/literary history

2. Practical Analysis

   • Genre
     • Classification of texts: Overlapping, Crossing, family members (Wittgenstein)
     • Prototype semantics: eg bird/canary/sparrow...penguin, turkey (circle model)
     • Etymology: gender, genus in english since 1770, in use since c 10000, first applied in ars grammatica (Diomeses)
     • Listimg of genres: e.g. Quintilian (35-96 AD): epic, tragedy, Old Comedy, New Comedy, elegy, iambic, satire, lyric poetry
     • Subgenres
   • Drama
   • Narrative
   • Film
   • Poetry

3. Texts

   • Shakespeare: Hamlet
   • Roy:The good of small things
   • Whitman: Leaves of Grass
   • Jane Eyre
   • Film: The Searchers