(731632-3) Literary Theories and Criticism
(Lit-Theories)


Course Description

Each course in this program describes in its own way literary aesthetics. This Course aims at consolidating such descriptions to give the students an idea of how, why, and what of literature. By discussing some of the texts in The Great Critics: An Anthology of Literary Criticism, edited by Smith and Parks, the students will learn some of the main features of literary criticism. Depending on the availability of time, any number of selections from the anthology may be studied; but the following selections must be covered either in full or, if necessary, in summary.

Text:

Plato, Ion from the Republic.
Aristotle. Poetics
Aristotle. Politics
Pope, An Essay on Criticism Lines 68-91, 333-366 and 560-571
Wordsworth, All selection in the Anthology
Arnold, All selection in the Anthology
Eliot, Metaphysical Poetry
Eliot, Traditions and the Individual Talent
I. A. Richards, Science and Poetry
Adams, Hazard, et al. Ed. Critical Theory Since 1965.