ENG308L - Literary Critical Theory

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
The course examines the principal movements in critical theory. Starting with Plato, Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus, it follows the development of mimetic, formal, pragmatic, and expressive theories. The last section of the course will touch on some of the new directions in criticism since 1966: feminism, deconstruction, reader response, semiotics, psychoanalysis. (Fulfills the Theory requirement for Literature and Writing concentrations.)