ENGL 323 Literary Criticism and Theory
This course examines the history, theory, and practice of literary criticism. Beginning with a study of classical sources, the course investigates how thinkers at various times have defined reading, writing, and the "literary" to analyze and evaluate texts. Much of the course is dedicated to twentiethcentury literary theory, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, new criticism, readerresponse, structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, and postcolonial criticism.