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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


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