LST 522 - Literary Trends: Historical & Cultural Perspectives

In the history of western thought, what counts as structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, gay/lesbian/queer theory, Marxism, reader response, post-colonial theory? What events and cultural trends foster new ways of thinking about human relationships? What texts illustrate these ways of thinking? This course - with selections by Euripides, Boethius, John Locke, Karl Marx, Albert Camus, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jane Hirshfield, Yasmina Reza - will allow students to explore in prose, poetry, short fiction, and film eight major perspectives in Western intellectual theory.

Credits: 3