Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 03

Semester: Fall - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
As the course catalog description of this course indicates, the purpose of this course, formerly titled The Pursuits of English, is to introduce students to literary theory: "An inquiry into what constitutes contemporary literary study: its subject matter and its underlying goals and methods. Students study literary and cinematic texts of various genres, as well as literary criticism and theory; inquire into the nature of authorship and of texts; examine and expand their ways of reading, interpreting, and writing about texts; trace the relation of literary criticism to theory; consider the relation of literary study to issues of power; and develop independent habits of thought, research, discussion and analytic writing that are informed by literary theory and criticism. 3 hours lecture."

This section of Critical Approaches explores the mutually dependent categories of the monstrous and the normal in fairy tales, and Renaissance drama and its afterlives (Shakespeare's The Tempest and Césaire's A Tempest). Along with our fictional texts, we will consider historical and cultural materials from the periods in which they were written, as well as theoretical lenses including those of feminism, gender studies, Marxism, and postcolonialism.

This course satisfies the Graduation Writing Requirement for English majors, and is also a requirement for English minors.

Books on order:

Hallett, Martin, and Barbara Karasek, eds. Folk and Fairy Tales. 4th Edition, Broadview Press, 2008. 978-1551118987

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. 4th Edition, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2011. 978-1408133477

Cesaire, Aime. A Tempest. Translated by Richard Miller, TCG, 2002. 978-1559362108

Last updated on 2018-03-25 By Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Is course canceled: No