The aim of the course is to present major literary schools and approaches. The center of our attention will be, however, the twentieth-century trends, their ideology and the connections between contemporary literary studies and other fields of the humanities (e.g. philosophy, aesthetics, linguistics, anthropology, psychology and semiotics). Such a complex and contextualized overview of the matter should enable the students to think critically and analytically about other than literary cultural discourses. The goal of discussion classes is to deepen students’ knowledge of selected terminology in literary theory through the analysis of source texts and application of these texts and theoretical tools to interpretation of literary works.