[
Wesleyan Home Page
] [
WesMaps Home Page
] [
WesMaps Archive
]
[
Course Search
] [
Course Search by CID
]
Academic Year 2000/2001
A Historical Introduction to Literary Criticism
COL 201 FA
This course will attempt to introduce students to literary criticism through chronologically arranged readings in the work of major theorists and study of the application of their ideas to selected works of poetry,
drama, fiction, etc. It will seek to
examine representative writings from Aristotle's POETICS to late 20th-century theories.
MAJOR READINGS
Aristotle, POETICS Selected Midrashic material. Selections from Dante, DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA, and other medieval poetics. Selections from J.C. Scaliger, L. Castelyetro, and other renaissance theorists. Selected
writings of German romantic
theorists (e.g. Lessing, Schlegel, Tieck) and of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. Selections from Marx and Freud. Selected writings of Coleridge. Selected pieces of "New Criticism," historicist criticism,
deconstructive and feminist criticism, et
c. with selected poetry, drama, and fiction (and scriptural texts) for illustration.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three papers (4-7 pages in length)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course meets the English Department's theory requirement. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicated directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped
from the class list. NOTE: Students
must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
Contact
wesmaps@wesleyan.edu
to submit comments or suggestions. Please include a url, course title, faculty name or other page reference in your email
Copyright Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 06459