This course introduces students to a wide range of critical theories that English majors need to know. We’ll begin with some basic questions about literary texts: How can we understand documents from ...

Introduces students to a wide range of critical theories that English majors need to know. Covers major movements in modern literary/critical theory, from Matthew Arnold through new criticism to ...

It has held sway in the humanities for nearly four decades, surviving even the great culture wars. But it is being used in surprising ways. Either literary theory is dead, or it’s invincible. It all ...

Notable and polarizing English critic Eagleton provides basic instruction on close reading and literary criticism for beginners. He discusses the opening sentences of some famous works and explains ...

The British academic Terry Eagleton has the unusual — possibly unique — distinction of having written a bestselling book about late-20th-century literary theory. The book, “Literary Theory: An ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

Vol. 57, No. 4, Special Issue: Technology in Comparative Literature Studies Guest edited by Ning Wang (2020), pp. 585-594 (10 pages) Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative critical ...

"Cultural Theory", as it came to be known, surfaced in British and American universities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing chiefly on the work of French thinkers like Roland Barthes, ...