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Lesson 01 - Introduction To Literary Criticism

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COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

ENG 118: Literary Criticism


BSE 3A
Monday/ 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Google Meet Code: xjx-oqqv-drk

Isidro D. Enriquez
Instructor
Course Description
• Provides students with opportunities to study
the basic approaches to literary theory and
criticism and their application to selected
literary works.
Course Outline
PRELIMS
Filipino Literature vis-à-vis Filipino Culture and History
Filipino Literature : Perspectives from Culture, history,
Politics, philosophy
Literature vs. History
Three Periods in the Literary History of the Philippines:
Texts, Themes, Developmental Turns
Pre-Colonialism
Colonialism
Post Colonialism
Course Outline
PRELIMS
• Filipino Literature as Product of Qualitative Research
– Dialectics
– Ethnography
• Translating and Editing Texts: Accuracy Issue
• Literary “UNIQUENESS” and Literary “SURGERY – the
Writer vs. the Critic:
• Two VISTAS Thematic Anthology of Literary Texts by
Literary Survey and Research
Course Outline
MIDTERMS
General LENSES used as GUIDE to SHAPE LITERARY
INTERPRETATION
• LITERARY THEORY: Singularity, Plurality and
Multiplicity of Literary Themes
• Literary Concepts in Binary Opposition: Literary
Theory vs. Literary Criticism, Objectivity vs.
Subjectivity of BEAUTY, Literary Themes: Singular, or
Plural, or Multiple?, Textuality vs. Intertextuality,
Contextualization vs. De-contextualization
MIDTERMS
• Author-Dependent Theories: Pre-Critical or
Traditional VISTAS for Literary Criticism
• Text-Dependent Theories: VISTAS from the
Literary Traditions of Formalists and
Structuralists
• Reader-Dependent Theories: VISTAS from the
Literary traditions of Post-Structuralists like the
Deconstructionsts and Phenomenlogists
Course Outline
MIDTERMS
• VISTAS from the Three Waves of Feminism,
Queer Theories, Pink, Chic, Diaspora Literature
• VISTAS from metamorphosing Theories: The
Case of Freud’s Psychoanalysis, Jung’s
Archetypes, Sartre’s Existentialism, Marxism
• Grand SYNTHESIS: Literary Interpretation in
UNIFIED HIERARCHY
Course Outline
SEMI-FINALS
LITERARY THEORY: Significant Paradigms for TAKE-
OFFs in Literary Criticism
• Literary THEME: Sine Qua Non of Literary
Interpretation
• Central Ideas and Recurring Themes in Literary
Texts: De-BONE(ing) and FLESH(ing) Texts
• Frameworks for Thematic Extraction: Matters for
guiding Literary Interpretation
Course Outline
SEMI-FINALS
• Critical Issues for Literary Interpretation: In a
Nutshell – a Dialectical Fusion
• Critical Theory: Transforming Literary
Principles into Processes of Literary
Interpretation
• Literary Vistas: WHICH is the MOST Effective
Lens or Underpinning for Interpretation
Course Outline
FINALS
PRACTICE of LITERARY RESEARCH and INTERPRETATION
• Designs, Development and evaluation of Literary Research
and Interpretation
• Thematic Anthologizing
• Thematic Designs
• Development of the Written Discourse
• Thematic Evaluation of the Written Discourse
• Oral Discourse
• The Literary Research
Course Outline

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