Academic Catalog

FLE258 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRENDS IN LITERATURE II

Course Code: 4500258
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 4,5
Department: Foreign Language Education
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course will survey important texts in post-Lacanian psychoanalytic texts and literature that invites a psychoanalytic approach. In this course students will familiarize themselves with some of the key concepts of Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler. They will also examine the texts written by Shoshana Felman, Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak, Peter Brooks, Louis Althusser and Fredric Jameson and learn how to extrapolate meaning from literary texts such as James Joyce’s Ulysses and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.