ENG471

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Literary Theory

School of Arts and Sciences

Course Subject Code

ENG

Course Number

471

Course Description

As an advanced study of primary texts from the history of literary criticism and the major critical schools of the 20th century, this course will include formalism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, new historicism, and post-colonialism. Readings will focus on essays and criticism from Plato to Plotinus to Foucault and Stanley Fish. Offered alternate years.