ENGL 737 - Criticism And Theory

3 Credits

537 Prerequisite(s): None This course examines literary practice and theory from Plato to the present. Particular attention will be paid to trends in contemporary criticism and theory from Historical Biographical Criticism to Formalism (New Criticism) to Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Feminist Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Psychological Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism and Multiculturalism, Narratology, and Cultural Criticism.