GER 570

Fall 2020 All Classes

All Classes

Modern Critical Theory

SHOW FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

Credit: 4 hours.

Comprehensive introduction to the foundational thinkers, texts, and schools that orient contemporary work in the humanities, from German Idealism to Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, and Postcolonial Theory, among others. The course is intended primarily for beginning graduate students, but also for those who feel they have not covered the development of critical theory in a systematic way. The course will include significant discussion of figures including: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Said, Spivak. Among the topics we will address are: history, the subject, aesthetics, value, power, language, ideology, materiality, gender, sexuality, race, and technology/media studies.

Same as CWL 570. 4 graduate hours. No professional credit.

My Favorites

My Schedule

Section Status updates every 10 minutes.

GER 570 class schedule data for fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39732	Online	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	n.a.	Johnson, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course will offer you an introduction to the major ideas, problems, and critical trends that have shaped the study of literature and culture over the past several decades. By the end of the semester, you will be familiar with the evolution of and interrelations between a number of theoretical fields, including structuralism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonial theory, indigenous studies, critical race theory, digital humanities, visual studies, and feminist and queer theory. Some of the texts on the syllabus might already be familiar, but many certainly will not. In any case, the goal of the course will be to have you see familiar problems in a new light and to develop new skills to think about the relationship between literature, culture, politics, and scholarship. This course is conceived for graduate students in comparative literature, but it is appropriate for anyone engaged in literary or cultural studies in any geographic context.