THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING TWENTIETH CENTURY ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE

Nataša Tučev, Dušica Ljubinković

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FULL230401011T
First page
125
Last page
132

Abstract


This paper provides an overview of theoretical texts and critical essays which enable students to contextualize twentieth century anglophone literature and understand the key concepts, preoccupations and motifs of this literary period. Students are introduced to some seminal works in the field of literary theory and cultural studies, such as those written by Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire or Terry Eagleton. In addition, essays written by Seamus Heaney and Adrienne Rich are included in the syllabus, with a view to representing these poets' explicit poetics and making their poetry more accessible to students. The paper represents briefly each of these texts, while also discussing how they may be applied to the study of literature.

Keywords

ideological criticism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, authors’ poetics

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Cesaire, Aime. 1972. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Eagleton, Terry. 1989. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Fanon, Franz. 2004. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press.

Heaney, Seamus. 1984. Preoccupations. London: Faber and Faber.

Rich, Adrienne. 2004. “When We Dead Awaken”. In:. Literature, Culture, Identity, edited by Lena Petrović, pp. 381–388, Niš: Prosveta.




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