Critical Theory (LDCL5031A)

explring marxist and anti-capitalist points of views in literary criticism. Looking at politics and history and its relationship with class, ideology and devisional relationships of labour

Close reading was one of the ways English Literature was formulised into a subject and made examinable in the 1st half of the 20th century - looking at close reading as an institutional process.

Lecture notes on the relationships bewteen the violence of imperialism and colonialism, and the study of literature and culture.

case studies putting the writers in dialogue exploring their relationhip with literature and philosophy. Sterne as a philisophical writer and Marx as a social critic and a literary one.

exploring the presence of the eco-catastrophe within literature, and getting to know ecological concepts and their relation to the grammar of literary criticism. Eco activism as a literary device.

exploring the presence of the eco-catastrophe within literature, and getting to know ecological concepts and their relation to the grammar of literary criticism. Eco activism as a literary device.

Exploring Queer theory and the LGBTQ+ influences and impacts within literature. The possible subtexts and implications Queer theory may have on literature and the works of other Queer theorists and others explored and summerised.

Gendered language and the constructive higherarchy of words lecture notes and Essay prep comparing Cixous and Freud.

exploration of genred writting and literary criticism and it's impact on constructive thinking.