May 20, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 437 - History of Literary Criticism and Theory

3 Credits

(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing and Permission of Chair. This course is a historical survey of literary criticism and theory since Plato culminating in an overview of contemporary theories, including psychoanalytic, Marxist, reader-response, feminist, deconstruction, New Historicist, race, and post-colonial theories and cultural criticism.