{"id":1129,"date":"2021-05-25T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/c-lit-510-a-history-of-literary-criticism-and-theory-iv\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:43","slug":"c-lit-510-a-history-of-literary-criticism-and-theory-iv","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/c-lit-510-a-history-of-literary-criticism-and-theory-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"C LIT 510 A: History Of Literary Criticism And Theory IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This course will present a compendious overview of the major transition that took place in the 60s and 70s\u00a0 from \u201chumanist\u201d to \u201cstructuralist\u201d and \u201ccontextualist\u201d approaches of various sorts.\u00a0 Humanism, in the loose, large sense intended here, refers to the notion that individual consciousness is the prime source of agency.\u00a0 By contrast, structuralism and contextualism analyze agency in terms of forces and structures that give form to individual consciousness itself, and are therefore in crucial ways behind its intendings.\u00a0 There are difficult conceptual issues that arise around the dichotomy between these two approaches, and in this class we will work through these issues in rigorous detail.\u00a0 All of this will be brought to bear on the fundamental issues of reading and interpretation, and particularly on the question of what constitutes valid interpretation. We will be reading some standard theoretical texts that you might well have encountered before, but we will read them at a depth that you might well not have previously experienced.<br \/>\nTentative reading list:Volosinov, Ch. 3 of Marxist Philosophy of LanguageFoucault, \u201cWhat is an Author\u201dBarthes, \u201cThe Death of the Author\u201dDerrida, \u201cSignature, Event, Context,\u201d selections from Of GrammatologyFish, \u201cHow to Recognize a Poem When You See One\u201dButler, \u201cImitation and Gender Insubordination\u201dLacan, selections from Ecrits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1129","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 22:50:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}