ENGL1205 - 02 - Introduction to Literary Methods

(LI) Literary Inquiry (AI-L) Aesthetic Inquiry Lit

This course introduces students to different modes of criticism used to analyze literary texts in the fields of English, American and World Literatures. Students will read at least two literary works through a variety of critical lenses, including but not limited to Rhetorical Criticism, Historicism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Cultural Studies, and Feminism. Learning how to read and interpret the complex interactions between literary and critical texts, students have the opportunity to interrogate the foundational assumptions of different critical paradigms and to understand what each analytical approach values and finds problematic about literary texts.