Department of English

This course will provide an overview of major European thinkers in literary theory of the 20th and 21st centuries.  We will pay particular attention to the following movements:  Structuralism and Deconstruction (Lévi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes, Derrida), Social Theory (Foucault, Rancière), Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Abraham and Torok), Schizoanalysis (Deleuze and Guattari), Feminism and Queer Theory (Irigaray, Kristeva, Sedgwick), Spatial Theory (Bachelard, DeCerteau, Lefebvre), and the Frankfurt School (Adorno and Horkheimer, Kracauer).  Readings and discussion will be in English.