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2023 Syllbus Culture and Literature 1
2023 Syllbus Culture and Literature 1
As Jonathan Culler argues in literary studies these days there is a lot of talk about theory, not
just theory of literature, but theory in a much broader context, theory of culture. This course is
an introduction to literary and cultural theory. It captures what has happened in literary and
cultural theory since the 1960s. It pays particular attention to the questions such as: what
literature is, what is the relationship between literary and cultural theory, what is an author. It
covers the major theory paradigms such as structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis,
deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, postcolonial theory.
SEMINARS
Weekly assignment (20%).
• For seminars students will be divided in groups (or teams) of 2-4
• Each week one team will present its seminar.
• Each team must present their topic clearly.
• Each student in the team should present the part of the topic (give a speech, or a visual
presentation) (all presentations together 15-20 min), please work together as a team
• Every team should prepare discussion with all class students. (10 - 15 min). (we will discuss
how theory push us to see from new angles, to contextualize, to ask new questions and offer
new interpretation)
• Each team MUST WORK TOGETHER in order to prepare their seminar presentation (at the
end I will mark the team - 20% of the final grade)
ALL STUDENTS MUST come every week ready to discuss the readings (+ bring in at
least ONE written question for discussion – 10% of the final grade)
FINAL EXAM: 70% of the final grade
Student Presentation:
2. 16.3. Culture and Representation
YouTube An Introduction to Erich
Auerbach's Mimesis, by Professor
Andrew White
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The
representation of reality in western
literature, Odysseus’s Scar (pp. 3-
24)
UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR
UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM IADERTINA
Form 1.3.2. Syllabus
Presenters:
1. Maja Mikeloti
2. Lea Jerončić
3. Marija Rezo
Student Presentation:
Thomas Schatz. Hollywood
3. 23.3. Structuralism
Genres. Formulas, filmmaking and
studio system. Random House New
York. 1981. (pp. 14-41)
Presenters:
1. Lana Begonja
2. Livia Drašković
3. Lea Jerončić
Student Presentation:
Barthes, Roland Mythologies. The
Noonday Press. New York
Presenters:
1. Anita Borovina Vranješ
2. Stela Dužević
3. Una Menićanin
4. Filip Matijević
5. 6.4. HOLIDAY
UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR
UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM IADERTINA
Form 1.3.2. Syllabus
Student Presentation:
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Rise and
Discourse, power and the subject
6. 13.4. Fall of Adam and Eve. London.
Bodley Head. 2018 (pp. Bare
Bones. 20-63; Eve's Murder; 279-
319; Darwin's Doubts 603-637)
Presenters:
1. Lorena Brtan
2. Katarina Filipović
3. Jana Kanjka
Presenters:
1. Iva Burić
2. Sara Golem
3. Iva Kostelac
Student Presentation:
Kate Millett: Sexual politics. The
University of Illinois Press.
Chapter: Instances of sexual
politics (pp. 3-23); Theory of
sexual politics: Adam and Eve (pp.
52-54) 'the narrative how humanity
invented sexual intercourse. pp.25-
59)
UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR
UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM IADERTINA
Form 1.3.2. Syllabus
Presenters:
1. Leonarda Ćelić
2. Ana Jelić
3. Lucija Ljubić
Student Presentation:
Postcolonial theories
13. 1.6. Said, Edward. Culture and
Imperialism. New York. Random
House. 1994. (pp. 3-43)
Presenters:
1. Margita Delač
2. Sara Jerković
3. Kardelen
Closing Lecture
14. 8.6 Preparation for exam