ENGL 4700
This is a study of the major currents and models in modern critical and literary theory, their basic concepts, philosophical assumptions, historical and ideological contexts, and applications.
This section of ENGL 4700 will examine literary theory from its poetic and rhetorical beginnings, through hermeneutics, philology, and romanticism to contemporary theoretical and critical discourses about literary studies. This course is about the idea of what we characterize as literary discourse and its place in temporal cultural matters. Our journey will be a linear tracing through history of thinking about literature as art, symbol, rhetoric, psychology, self-referent, and thing-in-itself.
Recommended Supplementary Texts & Resources
- Childers, Joseph and Gary Hentzi. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
. New York: Columbia UP, 1995.
- Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction
. U of Minnesota P, 2008.
- Lucas, Gerald. “Literary Theory Notes.”
Sections
- Fall 2009: 82363 ENGL 4700 MW 9.30-10.45a PSC-152
