11093-HS2025-0-After the Linguistic Turn: Literary Theory in the 20th Century (MA Foundation Lecture) (GRADED)





Root number 11093
Semester HS2025
Type of course Lecture
Allocation to subject English Languages and Literatures
Type of exam not defined
Title After the Linguistic Turn: Literary Theory in the 20th Century (MA Foundation Lecture) (GRADED)
Description THIS COURSE STARTS IN THE SECOND SEMESTER WEEK.
The lecture will cover the main schools, approaches, directions and tendencies in Literary Theory since the Linguistic Turn, initiated by the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. This includes Structural Textual Semantics, Structuralism (Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Althusser), Formalism (Sklovskij), Reception Aesthetics (Iser), Critical Theory (Adorno, Horkheimer), Poststructuralism (Foucault, Derrida) and Postcolonialism (Said, Spivak, Bhabha). There will be a tutorial offered in this course. Details will be communicated in the first week of the semester.

Required Reading: The main theoretical texts, as well as the primary texts used to exemplify these theories, will be provided on ILIAS.
ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course) Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible). ILIAS
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Lecturers Prof. Dr. Thomas ClaviezInstitute of English Languages and Literatures 
ECTS 4
Recognition as optional course possible No
Grading 1 to 6
 
Dates Wednesday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
Wednesday 17/12/2025 10:15-13:00
Wednesday 14/1/2026 10:15-12:00
 
Rooms Seminarraum F -104, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
Hörraum F 022, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
External rooms Departmental Meeting Room B283
 
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