Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
Description:
This course takes up the nature of literary study: its subject matter and its underlying goals and methods. We expand our ways of reading, interpreting, responding to, and writing about texts; we trace the relation of literary criticism to theory; we consider the relation of literary study to issues of political power, discuss how and why mainstream critical approaches change over time, and develop independent habits of thought, research, discussion, and analytic writing informed by literary theory and criticism. By the end of the course, we understand how a single text can have multiple meanings depending on the theoretical lenses we choose. We recognize that interpretive strategies are constructed, learned, and chosen. We come to recognize the assumptions behind those perspectives, to study and dismantle the myths about them, to respect, intellectually and ethically, different theoretical approaches to literature, and finally, to actively reflect on ourselves as writers, thinkers, and readers. Our laboratory texts will be one or two Shakespearean plays that have invited the widest (wildest?) range of theoretical "digging." Our main questions throughout our study will be "How?" and "Why?"--and maybe also "Why not?"

Last edited by: Liebler Naomi (lieblern) on 10/02/2021

Faculty: Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Schedule: Wednesday From 10:45 am To 1:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Is course canceled: No