024913 Literary Theory

This subject considers literary and cultural theory particularly in relation to its emerging applications in the fields of education and educational research. It outlines the major historical movements, from Plato and Aristotle to post-modernism, and introduces such topics as the idea of the characteristic, subjectivity, focalisation, metaphor, the influence of nineteenth century social theory, feminism and gender studies, historicism and new historicism, postcolonialism, and ideology. It refers, as appropriate, to the work of Marx, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan, Deleuze, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Bakhtin, Gadamer, Habermas, Kristeva, Derrida, Butler, Chodorow, Said, Spivak, Eagleton, and others.