Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 03

Semester: Spring - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
As stated in the catalog, this required course teaches English majors and minors “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.” In this section of Critical Approaches to English, students will read two pieces of short fiction by Angela Carter and Octavia Butler and one novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. These texts share the theme of monsters, which focuses our discussion of several critical approaches: close reading/analysis, narratology, feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, animal studies, postcolonial criticism, textual criticism, new historicism, posthumanism, and ecocriticism. This overview introduces students to literary research, while working towards developing distinctive arguments that acknowledge scholarly debates and concerns.

Required Course Materials
• J. A. Cuddon, editor, Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 5th edition (Penguin, 9780141047157)
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the 1818 Text (Oxford UP, 9780198840824)

Last updated on 2021-09-24 By Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 11:15 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Is course canceled: No