2025-2026 Undergraduate General Catalog

ENGL 3550 Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory

What happens when we read literature? How does a literary work come to "mean"? What do literary texts tell us about the nature of language? What do they tell us about the culture they're part of? Many literary critics and theorists have pondered these questions lately, and we'll explore them too, by studying primary texts in 20th- and 21st- century criticism and theory. The particular focus of the course will vary but will typically involve discussion of structuralism and post-structuralism, feminist criticism, and cultural studies.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 1100

Offered

Every other Spring, even years

Notes

Previously: ENGL 289