Texts and Culture: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis 1, 5 cr

This course introduces students to a range of textual forms as well as established reading techniques and concepts of literary analysis. Students also become familiar with a range of literary traditions – from Shakespearean drama to postmodern fiction – that are suitably analysed through these concepts. These include poetic form, irony, ambiguity, rhetorical figures and tropes, characters, narrative structure and narrators, focalisation etc. The students are introduced to structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives, and learn to interpret texts as systems of signs.