Introduction to the Study of Cultures and Literatures in English

- Introduction to the Study of Cultures and Literatures in English
- Előszó
- Contents
- Part 1 What is English Studies?
  - 1. What is a university? A proseminary
  - 2. Paradigms and paradigm shifts
  - 3. What is English Studies? English as a university subject
  - 4. Ideology, criticism, history
  - 5. Registers of Culture
  - 6. Canon formation and alternative reading practices
- Part 2 Fields of English Studies. Language, Literature, Culture, and Critical Approaches
  - 1. Preliminary problems: definitions, scientific expectations
  - 2. Ontological problems: the way literature exists
    - Semiotics
    - Literary communication
    - Language and Critical Thinking
    - The Language of the Sciences and the Language of Literature
  - 3. Methodological problems: the way we understand texts
    - Meaning and context
    - The Process of Interpretation
  - 4. The Theory of Genres
    - Genres and Their Historical Changes
    - Genre-generating Factors and Historical Changes
  - 5. Poetry and Figurative Language
    - Exercise in Interpretation / 1
      - I First level of meaning
      - II Second level of meaning
      - III Third level of meaning
      - IV Fourth level of meaning
  - 6. Narrative Fiction
    - Exercise in Interpretation / 2
      - I First level of meaning
      - II Second level of meaning
      - III Third level of meaning
  - 7. Drama
    - Exercise in Interpretation / 3
      - I First level of meaning
      - II Second level of meaning
  - Self test I
  - 8. Literature, Culture, and the Reading Subject: An Overview of Major Trends in Literary and Cultural Theory
    - I Preliminaries
    - II Formal critical trends: from the authorial intention to the close reading of the text (1st shift)
    - III Contextual aproaches: from text to context
    - The critique of structuralism
  - Self test II
  - 9. Critical Literature Consulted and Recommended
  - 10. Appendix

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# 9. Critical Literature Consulted and Recommended

For critical literature on literary and cultural theory, the genres, the critical approaches and interpretive practice, you can consult (further to the literature recommended in the first part):

Adams, Hazard – Leroy, Jones (eds.) Critical Theory Since Plato. Wadsworth Publishing, 2004.

Bertens, Johannes W. Literary Theory: The Basics. Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.

Guerin , Wilfred – Labor, Earle (eds.) A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (6th edition)

Lane, Richard J. (ed.) Global Literary Theory: An Anthology. Routledge, 2013.

Pope, Rob. The English Studies Book. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. pp. 67-154: “Theoretical Positions and Critical Approaches.”

Scholes, R., Klaus, C. H., Comley, N. R. (eds.) Elements of Literature. New York and Oxford: University Press, 1984.

Selden, Raman - Peter Widdowson - Peter Brooker. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Pearson Education Limited, 2005.

Selden, Raman. Practising Theory and Reading Literature. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.

Wolfreys, Julian - Ruth Robbins - Kenneth Womack. Key Concepts in Literary Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

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