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Literary Criticism is the study and application of various historical and contemporary approaches, including foundational twentieth-century theory as well as contemporary approaches.

This course introduces the concepts and theories of literary criticism which include formalism, Marxism, structuralism (including narratology), hermeneutics, reception theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, post-colonialism, post-structuralism and deconstructivism. Students discuss literary works in the form of short stories, poems, novels and plays based on the above literary concepts and theories.