COML 4999 - Seminar in Theory

(LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Required course for COML Majors. Enrollment limited to: undergraduate students.

J. Culler.

Study of trends and issues in contemporary literary cultural and theory, with attention to structuralism and post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and human-animal studies, and to questions concerning the nature of language and meaning, interpretation, and identity. Primary readings include work by Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Barbara Johnson.