Course Info: HACU-0222
| Course | HACU-0222 Intro to Literary Theory |
| Long Title | Introduction to Literary Theory |
| Term | 2016F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 2 on M,W from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Molly Whalen |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | 9 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Writing and Research Multiple Cultural Perspectives |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This introduction to literary theory explores major critical movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, considering a range of questions about the formal, aesthetic, cultural, social, politicial, and historical dimensions of literature and literary analysis. Students explore the purposes and tools of literary and cultural interpretation and gain experience in techniques of analytic reading, discussion, and writing. Readings in Brooks, Shklovsky, Nietzsche, Barthes, Derrida, Cixous, Johnson, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Macherey, Deleuze, Irigaray, Foucault, Butler, Gates, Morrison, Reed, Moten, Said, Glissant, Ngugi. |