English Literature: Literary Theory

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English Literature: Literary Theory

English Literary Criticism and Analysis

231 students enrolled

Created by Masood Raja

Last updated 5/2020

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What you'll learn

In this course, you will first learn major theoretical ways of critical reading and then learn to apply these skills while reading some texts provided through the course. You will also learn how to use these skills in developing critical skills useful in real life situations.

Requirements

You should be interested in viewing/ reading the course materials and should be willing to practice what you learn.

Description

This is an ever-growing course and new materials will be added regularly.

Designed for students and beginning scholars of English Literature, this course will introduce you to major schools of thought in English literary theory and literary analysis. Besides the video lectures, the course includes textual resources, links to longer and more detailed videos, and links to the resources on my website.

What You Will learn:

All major approaches to English literary theory and analysis.
How to read texts critically and how to understand literature from various theoretical perspective.

Who this course is for:

This course is ideally suited for undergraduate English and humanities majors and minors and anyone else interested in developing their critical reading and analysis skills.

+ – Introductory Materials

2 lectures 18:39

This video introduces you to the course and informs you about what to expect from the course. Ensuing videos will cover each major school of literary theory and will also provide you with additional resources.

Introduction to the Course

Preview 03:06

A brief explanation of how to build your knowledge of theory over time, especially after you finish this introductory course.

How to learn Literary Theory

Preview 15:33

13 lectures 02:49:28

This brief video explains what roughly is literary theory and gives you an idea of how different theories emerge because of the emphasis on the text, the author, or the reader.

What is Literary Theory?

04:13

This video introduces you to the basics of New Criticism and to some ideas of its major thinkers.

New Criticism

11:39

Using the resources provided for this lecture, this video component introduces you to the general ideas of some of the major New Criticism theorists.

New Criticism: Major Theorists

13:36

This brief video answers a few questions about the Matthew Arnold essay "Functions of Criticism."

Notes on Matthew Arnold

07:05

This video lecture introduces students to certain basic ideas, concepts, and practices of the structuralist movement.

Structuralism

14:38

This brief video summarizes what we have covered so far in the course.

Summary of Lectures delivered so far

04:20

This video introduces you to the main concepts related to poststructuralist theory.

Poststructuralism

19:24

This brief video introduces you to Reader Response criticism with brief introduction to some major thinkers and their ideas on the subject.

Reader Response Criticism/ Reception Theory

08:56

This lecture introduces you to some major Marxian ideas and then explains Marxism further by discussing other Marxist theorists and writers.

Marxism

23:35

An introduction to Louis Althusser's essay on ideological state apparatuses. The essay is provided in resources.

Louis Althusser: RSAs and ISAs

12:07

A brief introduction to postcolonialism and postcolonial criticism.

Postcolonialism

08:56

This lecture explains Freudian Psychoanalysis and its use for reading literary text.

Psychoanalysis

24:46

Feminism(s)

16:13

+ – Quizzes and Practice Materials

0 lectures 00:00

This quiz allows you to test your understanding of new criticism.

New Criticism Quiz

5 questions

Structuralism Quiz

5 questions

Poststructuralism Quiz

3 questions

Psychoanalysis Quiz

5 questions

+ – Additional Materials

17 lectures 07:30:36

Introduction: Additional Materials Section

01:17

Using Literary Theory to Write a Paper

Preview 15:59

Intro to lectures on Eagleton Text

03:45

This lecture is from my YouTUbe Channel and discusses Terry Eagleton's discussion of English Literature and Literary Theory from his famous book: Literary Theory: An Introduction.

Eagleton: What is Literature

20:54

This is chapter two of Terry Eagleton's book on Literary Theory (Full PDF of the book is available in resources to this section) and is also available on my YouTube channel.

Eagleton: Chapter 1--The Rise of English

42:40

This is a discussion of chapter 2 of Terry eagleton's book. The full pDF of the book is provided under resources, please do read it along with the lectures.

Eagleton: Chapter 2--Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory

31:49

Eagleton: Chapter 3 (Part 1) Structuralism and Semiotics

40:45

Eagleton: Chapter 3 (Part 2)

20:25

Eagleton: Chapter 4 (Part 1) Poststructuralism

35:08

Eagleton, Chapter 4 (Part 2) Poststructuralism

37:22

Part one of my discussion of Eagleton's chapter on Psychoanalysis.

Eagleton, Chapter 5 (Part 1)

33:26

Eagleton, Chapter 5 (Part 2: Psychoanalysis

36:48

Eagleton: Chapter 5 (Part 3)

23:42

Eagleton: Conclusion

18:06

Formalism and New Criticism

31:22

A brief discussion of a classic structuralist essay. Please read the full essay provided under resources to this video.

Structuralism: Example Essay

18:51

Althusser: Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses

38:17