Introduction to the Study of Cultures and Literatures in English

• Introduction to the Study of Cultures and Literatures in English
• Előszó
• Contents
• Part 1 What is English Studies?
  • 1. What is a university? A proseminary
  • 2. Paradigms and paradigm shifts
  • 3. What is English Studies? English as a university subject
  • 4. Ideology, criticism, history
  • 5. Registers of Culture
  • 6. Canon formation and alternative reading practices
• Part 2 Fields of English Studies. Language, Literature, Culture, and Critical Approaches
  • 1. Preliminary problems: definitions, scientific expectations
  • 2. Ontological problems: the way literature exists
    • Semiotics
    • Literary communication
    • Language and Critical Thinking
    • The Language of the Sciences and the Language of Literature
  • 3. Methodological problems: the way we understand texts
    • Meaning and context
    • The Process of Interpretation
  • 4. The Theory of Genres
    • Genres and Their Historical Changes
    • Genre-generating Factors and Historical Changes
  • 5. Poetry and Figurative Language
    • Exercise in Interpretation / 1
      • I First level of meaning
      • II Second level of meaning
      • III Third level of meaning
      • IV Fourth level of meaning
  • 6. Narrative Fiction
    • Exercise in Interpretation / 2
      • I First level of meaning
      • II Second level of meaning
      • III Third level of meaning
  • 7. Drama
    • Exercise in Interpretation / 3
      • I First level of meaning
      • II Second level of meaning
  • Self test I
  • 8. Literature, Culture, and the Reading Subject: An Overview of Major Trends in Literary and Cultural Theory
    • I Preliminaries
    • II Formal critical trends: from the authorial intention to the close reading of the text (1st shift)
    • III Contextual aproaches: from text to context
    • The critique of structuralism
  • Self test II
  • 9. Critical Literature Consulted and Recommended
  • 10. Appendix