Literary Theory for English Studies

This is a complete summary of the entire syllabus of the University of Groningen's First Year English Language and Culture subject Literary Theory for English Studies. It includes notes made during lectures and seminars given by Dr Kees de Vries

This is a summary of: Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams, “The Oedipus Complex”, Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author', Michel Foucault, 'What is an Author', Seminar Notes, Gilbert & Gubar, ‘from The Madwoman in the Attic, “The Anxiety of Authorship” (two summaries & a tl;dr of the two summaries. I really liked this article), Jacques Lacan, 'From the Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious' and an unfinished summary of Slavoj Žižek, 'Courtly Love, or, Woman As Thing...

This summary contains a summary of Aristotle, Poetics, sections 7-11, De Saussure - Chapter 1: Nature of the Linguistic Sign, Wimsatt and Beardsley - The Intentional Fallacy, Barry Ch. 2 Structuralism, Barry Ch. 12 Narratology.

Contains a summary of chapters 2 (Structuralism), 3 (Post-structuralism and Deconstruction), 5 (Psychoanalytic Criticism), 6 (Feminist Criticism), 7 (Lesbian/gay criticism), 8 (Marxist criticism), 9 (New Historicism and Cultural Materialism), 10 (Postcolonial Criticism) and 12 (Narratology).

This contains: a summary of Antonio Gramsci - The Formation of the Intellectuals, Lecture notes on Marxism, a summary of Horkheimer and Adorno - from the Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, a summary of Greenblatt - from Resonance and Wonder, a summary of Moretti - from Graphs Maps Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History Ch. 1, a summary of Barry Ch. 8 Marxist criticism, a summary of Barry Ch. 9 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.

Summaries of articles in 'The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism', as well as chapters from 'Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory' by P. Barry. Discusses: Narratology, which includes: 'Aristotle Poetics', 'De Saussure Nature of the Linguistic Sign', 'Wimsatt and Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy', 'Barry Ch. 2 Structuralism' & 'Barry Ch. 12 Narratology'. Postmodernism, which includes: 'Paul de Man Semiology and Rhetoric', 'Lyotard Defining the Postmodern', ...