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Sep 19, 2024
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EN 202 - Writing About Literature
Credit(s): 3
An early exploration of what it means to study and write about literature as a professional, with a particular focus on literary criticism and theory. The class begins with the question of why we read and write about literature, moving on to careful readings and close textual analyses of literary creations-from the traditional to the experimental-focusing on explication, analysis, and interpretation. In the process, the course introduces basic critical approaches to studying literature, including reader-response theory; New Criticism; feminism and gender theory; lesbian, gay, and queer theory; psychoanalytical theory; Marxist theory; African American theory; and postcolonialism. As a final project, students take on the close study of a novel-length work, producing both their own near-professional critical analyses, as well as supplementary materials to be included in a digital Casebook on the text.
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