16.7 2nd and 3rd year Justin Clemens. First semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• be able to understand historical developments and contemporary debates in the field of literary theory - semiotics, formalism, marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, queer theory, postcolonialism and postmodernism;
• be able to apply their understanding of these developments and debates analytically to a range of literary texts;
• have developed cross-disciplinary skills for both the reading and the writing of literary theory.

This subject aims to provide an introductory account of some of the major theories that have transformed the study of literature in the twentieth century. The subject will foreground several crucial and ongoing problems in literary theory (e. g. What is a text? What is an author? How do issues of race, class, gender, sexuality play themselves out in texts? etc. ) by way of a detailed and critical examination of a variety of theoretical texts. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Carroll L The Annotated Alice ed Gardner Penguin Tallack D ed Critical Theory: A Reader Prentice Hall Course reader available from the department 16.7 Justin Clemens. First semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• be able to understand historical developments and contemporary debates in the field of literary theory - semiotics, formalism, marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, queer theory, postcolonialism and postmodernism;
• be able to apply their understanding of these developments and debates analytically to a range of literary texts; and
• have developed cross-disciplinary skills for both the reading and the writing of literary theory.

This subject aims to provide an introductory account of some of the major theories that have transformed the study of literature in the twentieth century. The subject will foreground several crucial and ongoing problems in literary theory (e. g. What is a text? What is an author? How do issues of race, class, gender, sexuality play themselves out in texts? etc. ) by way of a detailed and critical examination of a variety of theoretical texts. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Carroll L The Annotated Alice ed Gardner Penguin Tallack D ed Critical Theory: A Reader Prentice Hall Course reader available from the department