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the relationship between reading and interpretation. Through a comparative analysis of these theorists, Professor Paul Fry explores the difference between meaning and significance, the relationship between understanding and paraphrasing, and the nature of the gap between the reader and the text. Through Wolfgang Iser's essay, "The Reading Process," the nature of textual expectation and surprise, and the theory of their universal importance in narrative, is explained. The lecture concludes by considering the fundamental, inescapable role that hermeneutic premises play in canon formation. (from oyc.yale.edu)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Introduction Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Introduction (cont.) Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Configurative Reading Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – Russian Formalism Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Semiotics and Structuralism Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Linguistics and Literature Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Deconstruction I Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Deconstruction II Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Freud and Fiction Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Jacques Lacan in Theory Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – Influence Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – The Postmodern Psyche Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – The Social Permeability of Reader and Text Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – The Political Unconscious Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – The New Historicism Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – The Classical Feminist Tradition Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – African-American Criticism Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Post-Colonial Criticism Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Queer Theory and Gender Performativity Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – The Institutional Construction of Literary Study Unlimited
- Lecture 25 – The End of Theory?; Neo-Pragmatism Unlimited
- Lecture 26 – Reflections; Who Doesn’t Hate Theory Now? Unlimited
