Romance Studies 201. Questions of Theory
Catalog Number: 0934
Jeffrey Schnapp and John T. Hamilton
Primarily for Graduates
Half course
(fall term).
F., 1-3 pm
Exam Group: 1
Location: Boylston Hall 335
The seminar is built around a sequence of fundamental questions regarding the literary disciplines, their
history and epistemology. Discussions are instigated by readings in
philology, stylistics, the history of ideas, semiotics, structuralism,
psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, film theory, genetic criticism,
literary sociology, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Note: Conducted in English. Required of all graduate students in Romance Languages and Literatures.