INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY

Course Description

Students will learn the fundamental principles of literary criticism, form, history, theory, and biography, addressing fundamental questions of what can be known about literature. Two projects--one shorter and one longer--will give students the opportunity to develop their skills in engaging in literary discourse as practitioners, critics, and scholars.

Required Text

Culler, Jonathan, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford UP
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton