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Literary Theory
Graduate approaches to reading: how critical lenses like formalism and reader-response reshape a text.
Prof. Adaeze Obi
Professor of Literary Theory
Course progress0 / 4 lessons
1
Formalism & Close Reading
The text itself, on its own terms.
9 min +85 XP2 quiz questions
2
Reader-Response Criticism
Meaning made in the act of reading.
8 min +80 XP2 quiz questions
3
Postcolonial Theory
Reading literature after empire.
10 min +85 XP2 quiz questions
4
Structuralism & Deconstruction
Meaning from systems — and its unraveling.
10 min +85 XP2 quiz questions