Introduction to European Critical Theory

not merely to introduce the concepts, but to demonstrate how these concepts can be operationalised in methods of analysis. The topics to be considered will include, amongst others: the author, text/context/frame, formal methods and materialist/historical concerns, discourse, the reader, the subject. Critical paradigms and schools of thought explored include Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Queer Theory, Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, French Feminism.

介绍欧洲批判理论的核心概念、思想家及其影响。

• 1Have learned how to read theoretical writing
• 2Have learned how any particular theoretical orientation allows us to ask questions that we would not ask otherwise
• 3Have learned that a theory is not merely a set of ideas, but a technical instrument for analysing language-based cultural objects such as literature
• 4Have learned how to engage in such analyses and to evaluate their outcomes.