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  • Introduction

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    The course is an introduction to the rewarding complexities of studying literature. The course introduces students to literary theory and its applications, offers a framework for understanding the historical evolution of literary studies, and introduces students to a range of approaches to the study of texts. The course includes practice in writing commentary on literature.

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    Teacher :Rebahi Khaoula

    Contacts : khaoula.rebahi@univ-msila.dz

    Credit: 2

    Coefficient :1

    Number of required hours for this subject: 21 hours

    Number of required hours per week: 1h and 30 min

    Assessment modality: diagnostic evaluation + formative evaluation + summative evaluation

    Tutoring schedule: every Tuesday from 8 to 10



    • Target Audience

      These lectures are dedicated to MASTER I students (LMD) as part of the subject of "LITERARY THEORY"

    • Objectives of the Subject

      • What is literature? (What distinguishes the “literary” from “non-literary” texts?)
      • What reading processes allow us to determine the meaning and value of texts?
      • How do the relationships between text, context (historical, social, ideological, linguistic), reader, and writer affect the perceived meaning and value?
      • Familiarize students with the literary premises and intellectual background pertinent to important eras of the literary and critical theory.
      • Encourage students to discover their own literary and critical "theories" as they read.
      • Introduce and examine practical critical concepts that are influential and important at the present time.
      • Help students know how to read, comprehend, discuss, analyze, and interpret critical texts of all types. Special emphasis will be placed on the cultivation of critical thinking, writing, and conversational skills.
      • Help update their knowledge of current literary issues and critical theories.
      • Explore possible applications of critical theory to various literary texts.
      • Develop students’ knowledge of the terms used in the criticism of literature.
      • Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of foundational critical texts.
      • Historicize and contextualize foundational theoretical and critical texts.
      • Employ critical methodologies appropriate to the practice of critical disciplines


    • LESSON 1/ Introduction to Literary Theory

    • LESSON 2/ Psychoanalytic Literary Theory


    • LESSON 3/ Marxist Theory and Criticism

    • LESSON 4/ Feminist Theory and Criticism

    • LESSON 5/ Critical Race Theory

    • LESSON 6/ Postcolonial Theory