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Course Content 

Module I: Linguistic Turn 

Required Reading 

Concepts 

● Structuralism 

Saussurean Linguistics 

Semiotics and Semiology o

Mythologies 

 Psychoanalysis 

 Freudian Psychoanalysis 

 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 

Zizek and his Lacanian Critique

 Saussure, Ferdinand de. “The Nature of the Linguistic Sign.” Course in General Linguistics. Columbia University Press. 2011. pp. 65–70.

 Lacan, Jacques. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience.” Reading French Psychoanalysis. Routledge. 2010. pp. 97– 104. 

Text for Methodological Application Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Purloined Letter.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, 1987, pp. 71–83., doi:10.1080/02564718708529833.

Recommended Reading Culler, Jonathan D. Structural Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature. Cornell University Press. 1976. Barthes, Roland. “Death of the Author.” Modern Criticism and Theory: a Reader, by David 24 Lodge and Nigel Wood. Routledge. 2013. pp. 145–150. Chodorow, Nancy J. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. Yale University Press, 1992. Zizek, Slavoj. How to Read Lacan. Granta Books. 2006. 

Module II: Deconstructive Turn 

Required Reading 

Concepts o Poststructuralism 

o Derrida and Deconstruction o

Play 

Trace 

 Discourse

Derrida, Jacques. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Humanities.” Modern Criticism and Theory: a Reader. David Lodge and Nigel Wood. Ed. Routledge. 2013. pp. 89 – 103

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