2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 21, 2024  
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 515 - History of Criticism and Literary Theory


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

This course will provide students with a familiarity with the traditional texts of Western literary theory and criticism. The second half of the course will concentrate on contemporary trends in literary criticism (beginning approximately with Oscar Wilde), which are often reactions against more traditional notions. Often the course will introduce concepts that are, or seem to be, counterintuitive.