Academic Catalog

ELIT611 CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY

Course Code: 8210611
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: English Literature
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. NURTEN BÝRLÝK
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Recent literary theoretical concerns and their bearing upon writing, reading and criticism of literature. It examines, among others, the theoretical positions of new psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist, pheno- menological and new historicist criticism.