POR 610 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Analysis

Institution:

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Subject:

Portuguese

Description:

A study of issues underlying literary and cultural analysis and methodological backgrounds of critical strategies. The first half of the course will be devoted to a review of major contemporary critical schools, e. g., structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction, formalism, feminist criticism, new historicism, and post colonial criticism. The second half of the course will be devoted to the analysis of relevant contributions to the field of literary and cultural analysis published in the past five years. Samples from some of the major genres and works of the Portuguese-speaking world& will be& analyzed.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umassd.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 999-8000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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