Course Description

English 215a/b Literary Theory: From Plato to the New Criticism

An historical introduction to the theory and criticism of literature. Texts by figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Augustine, Dante, Sidney, Johnson, Wordsworth, Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Cleanth Brooks and others are considered in relation to such topics as representation, form and structure, history, society, and gender.

Antirequisite: English 200, 201F/G and 491E

Prerequisite: At least 60% in a 020-level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department.

3 hours, half course.

(Huron)

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