ENG 556 - Literary Theory and Critical Practice: 1920-Present

Prerequisite, admission to graduate program of the department of English. Focusing on important critical questions (the social and political role of literature; the formation of a literary canon), students explore modern critical theories and methodologies, including New Criticism; Structuralism; Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Studies; New Historicism; Marxism; Psychoanalysis; Deconstruction; Multicultural and Post-Colonial Studies. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits