THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING TWENTIETH CENTURY ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING TWENTIETH CENTURY ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE

Summary/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.

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