English 194 Literary Criticism: Major Approaches

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2012
Significant critical orientations: modernism, classicism, romanticism, the New Criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, as well as feminism, formalism, and other -isms. Theoretical formulations yet also practical criticism, history of criticism, and critical writings oriented toward psychology, language, and cultural contexts. Aristotle, Horace, Johnson, Coleridge, Schiller, Arnold, Wilde, Eliot, Shklovsky, Freud, Foucault, Barthes, Showalter, Derrida, Sontag, Frye, Cixous, and others.