Course Description

ENG 361 LITERARY THEORY   3.0 Credit(s)
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 postcolonialism. Required for all English majors.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years