2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ENG 361 Literary Theory

An overview of the history and major concepts of critical theory from Nietzsche through Marx, Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault, Kristeva, Cixous, Derrida, Gates, and others. Important schools of thought include the New Criticism, semiotics, phenomenology, structuralism, neo-Marxism, deconstruction, gender studies, African-American criticism, and post-colonialism. Required for all English majors.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Permission of department chair for non-majors