FRENCH 705 / Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory

3 unit(s)

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This seminar will focus on text analysis methods and critical approaches used in French and Francophone studies. It is designed to familiarize students with the conceptual tools necessary to investigate different cultural texts. Topics addressed may include: ecocriticism, feminism, genre poetics, narratology, post-colonial theories, post-structuralism, pragmatics, psychoanalysis, queer theories, reception and reader-response theory, Russian formalism, semiotics, discourse analysis, etc.