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ENG 721

Problems in the History of Literary Criticism

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
StandardRepeatable up to 8 credits

Overview

Description

Important critical modes and approaches from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

Terms

fall

Restrictions

Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

Attributes

StandardRepeatable up to 8 credits

Learning Outcomes

  • write critical, formal analyses of literary texts.
  • identify and and critique the argument underlying critical writings.
  • discuss key texts and authors and movements in the history of literary criticism, and to describe the development of literary criticism from its origins to the present.
  • articulate the relationship between major texts in literary criticism and the cultural and historical contexts in which they were produced.