ENG 4480 - Literary Theory

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course examines the major schools of literary theory developed in the 20th century and beyond. Lectures and discussions explore theoretical perspectives on the recurrent questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Readings in the course provide definitions and delineations grounded on linguistic, psychoanalytic, socio-economic, and historic utterances that distinguish literature from other epistemological and ontological texts.
Prerequisite(s): six semester hours of 2000-level courses.