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ENGL2605: Literary Theory: An Introduction
2020 unit information
This unit approaches literary theory and criticism as such in three ways, synoptically, historically, and polemically. First, a generous sampling of kinds of theory and criticism establishes the ambit of the field. Second, a more concentrated sampling explores the history and importance of a particular period or mode of theory and criticism. Third, another such sampling evaluates the nature and significance of a matter of current theoretical and critical controversy.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
| Code | ENGL2605 |
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| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ENGL3910 or ENGL3920 or ASLT3602 or ENGL3962 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explain, evaluate, and compare the many kinds of theory and criticism, from a wide range of historical periods and cultural traditions, that pertain to literary texts.
- LO2. Develop the interpretive and analytical skills to which different kinds of literary theory and criticism prove most responsive.
- LO3. Discern the networks of affiliation among different kinds of literary theory and criticism and the scholarly and polemical responses to them.
- LO4. Examine the more or less inchoate theoretical and critical assumptions you each bring to literature so that your reading of it becomes more genuinely and exactingly theoretical and critical, especially in relation to its evolving psychological, social, and political circumstances and consequences.
- LO5. Deepen your appreciation of the theoretical and critical dimensions of all intellectual inquiry.
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