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1. Organizational meeting.
Culture and cultural practices. The system of cultural representations.
Problems in the definition of literariness and literature.
The languages of science and literature: reality and fictionality.
Society and the production of meaning.
Correspondence and coherence theories of truth-conditions.
Meaning and the structure of the sign. Literature as communication.
The ontology of the LWA.
2. The theory and system of genres. Genre generating factors.
Subdivision and fusion. Historical changes.
3. The system of English Studies
Canon, canon-formation. Rhetoric, poetics, philology.
The history of English as a university subject.
Critival thinking, critique of ideology, criticism, registers of culture
Critical approaches to literature and culture.
4. POETRY
Figurative language. Metaphor (explicit, implicit), metonymy, synecdoche, symbol, allegory, oxymoron, paradox.
Metaphorical understanding, tenor and vehicle.
5. English prosody and stanzas.
Couplet, quatrain, sonnet, rhyme structure, iambic pentameter, blank verse.
Interpretation: Keats “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
6. NARRATIVE FICTION:
Narration: story-telling and the textual world. Plot and plotting. Time and space.
Focalization and the system of point of view. Polyphony.
Character typology.
Levels and voices. Narrative agents: author, implied author, narrator, narratee, implied reader, reader.
Interpretation: Hawthorne “The Artist of the Beautiful”
7. DRAMA: text and performance. The semiotics of drama and theatre. Deixis.
The ritual origins of drama.
Setting, diction, decorum, action.
Proposition, conflict, crisis, climax, catastrophe.
Anagnorisis, peripeteia, hybris.
Interpretation: Yeats Purgatory
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