David Birdsong, Chair
201 W 21St Street, B7600, HRH 2.114A, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-5531
Spring 2004
FR 381M • CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
| Unique | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| 32670 |
TTh |
11:00 AM-12:30 PM |
HRH 2.106C |
LAGARDE |
Course Description
Introduction to modern and post-modern French literary/critical theories from an historical perspective (1945-2003). Readings in Sartre, Blanchot, Mauron, Foucault, Barthes, Deleuze, Genette, Kristeva, Serres, Cixous, Derrida, Bourdieu and others. Readings in English and French. Lectures and discussions in French.
Grading Policy
Participation and presentations: 30% Final exam: 30% One paper: 40%
Texts
(to be confirmed) Hollier, Denis and Mehlman, Jeffrey (Eds.) Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts, Postwar French Thought The New Press, 2001, ($ 19.95) François Cusset, French Theory - Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and co : l'aventure américaine des intellectuels français Paris, La Découverte, 2003 (22,33 )
