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ENGL 737 CRITICISM AND THEORY
Former course number 537 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course examines literary practice and theory from Plato to the
present. Particular attention will be paid to trends in contemporary
criticism and theory from Historical-Biographical Criticism to Formalism
(New Criticism) to Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response,
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Feminist Criticism, Marxist
Criticism, Psychological Criticism, Post-colonial Criticism and
Multiculturalism, Narratology, and Cultural Criticism.

ENGL 755 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Former course number 555 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
An intensive study of American literature, this seminar will focus on one
of the following areas of exploration: (1) a literary movement or period,
(2) a major writer, (3) a theme that runs through literary works by a
number of American writers, (4) the influence of one major writer on
another major writer.

ENGL 756 SEMINAR IN BRITISH LITERATURE
Former course number 556 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is a seminar in a topic or topics in English literature. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to, the history of the English novel;
Gothic and horror literature; Romanticism and revolution; pastoral
poetry; the epic and romance tradition; Victorian decadent writers; the
stream of consciousness novel; utopian/dystopian literature, and etc.
This course is designed to enhance the ability of students to apply
various trends in critical theory (such as feminism, deconstruction,
psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, reader-response criticism,
cultural criticism, multiculturalism, etc.) to a particular aspect of or
approach to English literature, which falls under the rubric of a
particular genre, mode, period, movement, or theme.

ENGL 757 SEMINAR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Former course number 557 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
An in-depth exploration of the major genres, themes, styles and
traditions that link literary voices of contemporary African American

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