Theories of interest

Structuralism

  • Connection to the narratology aspect and how it can connect to previous works from ENG 229, what makes the novel “novel” with aspects of the structure and assumptions of how a novel as a genre came to be.
  • PSC 210 con-law with discussions of frameworks and how certain things are framed (legal concepts connection).
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Psychoanalysis

  • Connection to Foucault and Freud in PSC 105
  • Avenues for Feminist criticism within our review of Virginia Woolf and how that story can be a lens to discuss both.
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New Criticism

  • Avenue to discuss what theory I don’t like as much and highlight its shortcomings with contemporary examples of ways that literature is connected to outside issues and relevancies
  • development of feminist theory to then queer theory and gender studies as a response to the cultural and academic need to press further and expand the role literature plays as well as postcolonial and race studies.
  • New questions can be asked that prompt different analyses and exploration of a certain theory.
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