ENGL 468

Honours Seminar: Late 20th-Century Literary Theory

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Literary and critical theory in the later part of the 20th century. Covers poststructuralist strategies (in deconstruction, psychoanalysis, new historicism, and feminism) and the "politicization of aesthetics" (in neo-Marxist theory, postcolonialism, gender studies and cultural studies). Literary texts in relation to capitalist, patriarchal, Eurocentric, and heteronormative discourses.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 468, 461.

Prerequisites: 467.

Undergraduate course in English offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities.