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CURSO:LITERARY THEORY I
TRADUCCION:TEORIA LITERARIA I
SIGLA:LET0313
CREDITOS:10
MODULOS:02
CARACTER:MINIMO
TIPO:CATEDRA
CALIFICACION:ESTANDAR
DISCIPLINA:LITERATURA
PALABRAS CLAVE:TEORIA LITERARIA, SUBLIME, BELLEZA, MIMESIS, CRITICA, AUTOR, TEXTO
NIVEL FORMATIVO:PREGRADO


I.DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO

This course presents an overview of poetics and aesthetic currents in Western literature from Classicism to the early twentieth century, by focusing on key texts in literary theory.
Students will be evaluated on their ability to trace the historical and cultural development of critical concepts such as mimesis, verisimilitude, nature and artifice, the sublime and the beautiful, the role of poetry, the nature of the poet, the relationship between author, text, and performer, and the function of the critic.


II.RESULTADOS DE APRENDIZAJE

1.Develop analytical skills so as to approach literary texts in a critical manner.

2.Examine the concept of Literary Theory, to consider its relevance in contemporary literary analysis.

3.Use key texts and concepts of literary theory from Classicism to New Criticism, to trace their development and application to contemporary culture.

4.Analyze literary texts using theoretical terminology and concepts and consider how these help to contextualize and enrich the understanding of a text.


III.CONTENIDOS

1.Classical Criticism
1.1.Plato
1.2.Aristotle
1.3.Horace
1.4.Longinus

2.Late Medieval/Early Modern Criticism
2.1.Dante
2.2.Pizan

3.Neoclassical Criticism
3.1.Burke
3.2.Diderot
3.3.Wollstonecraft
3.4.Radcliffe

4.Romantic Criticism
4.2.Kant
4.3.Wordsworth
4.4.Shelley
4.5.Schiller
4.6.Kleist

5.Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
5.2.Baudelaire
5.3.Arnold
5.4.Nietzsche
5.5.Wilde

6.The Twentieth Century
6.2.Eliot
6.3.Woolf


IV.ESTRATEGIAS METODOLOGICAS

-Lectures.

-Group work.

-Individual work.

-Oral presentations.


V.ESTRATEGIAS EVALUATIVAS

-12 Precis: 25%

-Oral presentation: 15%

-Midterm: 25%

-Final exam: 35%


VI.BIBLIOGRAFIA

Minima

[Texts taken from The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. by Vincent B. Leitch, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 are abbreviated as Leitch.]

[Texts taken from The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, ed. by David H. Richter, Boston: Bedford Books, 2006, are abbreviated as Richter.]

[Texts taken from Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. by Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, Wadsworth Publishing, 2004, are abbreviated as Adams.]

Aristotle. The Poetics. (Richter).

Arnold, Matthew. ?The Function of Criticism at the Present Time?. (Leitch).

Baudelaire, Charles. ?The Painter of Modern Life?. Ed. Jonathan Mayne. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. New York: Phaidon. 2012.

Burke, Edmund. On the Sublime. ?On the Sublime and Beautiful? excerpts (Adams and Adelaide Ebooks).

Cavendish, Margaret. From The World?s Olio. Early English Books Online. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53065.0001.001

Dante. From ?Letter to Can Grande della Scalla.? (Leitch).

Diderot. From ?On the Paradox of Acting.? (Adams).

Eliot, T.S. ?Tradition and the Individual Talent? (Leitch).

Euripides. The Bakkhai. Trans. Reginald Gibbons. Oxford UP, 2001.

Freud, Sigmund. ?The Uncanny? and other excerpts (Richter).

Horace. ?The Art of Poetry? (Leitch).

Kant, Emmanuelle. From Critique of Judgement. (Richter).

Kleist, Heinrich von. ?On the Marionette Theatre.? Trans. Thomas G. Neumiller. The Drama Review 16.3 (Sep. 1972): 22-26.

Longinus.?On the Sublime?. (Richter).

Nietzsche, Friedrich. From The Birth of Tragedy.(Richter).

Plato.?Book X?. Republic. ?Ion or Of Poetry?. (Richter).

Pizan, Christine de. From Book of the City of Ladies. David F. Hult ed. Debate of the ?Romance of the Rose?. 1st Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2010.

Radcliffe, Ann. ?On the Supernatural in Poetry?. The New Monthly Magazine. Vol 16, n. 1 (1826). www.litgothic.com.

Schiller, Friedrich.Excerpt from ?On Naive and Sentimental Poetry.?

Shelley, Percy ?A Defence of Poetry?. (Leitch).

Wilde, Oscar.?The Decay of Lying? (Richter).

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One?s Own (Annotated). Ed. Mark Hussey. New York: Mariner Books, 2005.

Wollstonecraft, Mary A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. From Chapter 2 (Leitch); from Chapter 6 (Adams).

Wordsworth, William. ?Preface to Lyrical Ballads? (Leitch).


Complementaria

Habib, M. A. R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. Rockwell Publishing, 2005.

Kennedy, George A. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge UP, 1989.

Potolsky, Matthew. Mimesis. The New Critical Idiom. Routledge, 2006.

Shaw, Philip. The Sublime. The New Critical Idiom. Routledge, 2006.


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