Overview
Description
Generic or cross-generic studies of literary structure.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
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
- engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
- produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
- articulate the defining characteristics of formalist approaches, and to explain formalism’s place in the history of literary criticism and theory.
- articulate the major questions and problems posed by genre theory, and to voice opinions about the role of form and genre in interpretation.
- synthesize primary and secondary readings about a problem in literary form and genre.