ENG 362 Literary Criticism

This survey course introduces major literary critical theories and critics: Classical, Renaissance,
Neoclassicism, Romantics, 19th and 20th century along with four contemporary schools of criticism: New Criticism. Marxism, Feminism & Postcolonialism. 

Day                             Topic
Sept .25th         Introduction to Literary Criticism
Sept. 27th         Plato: Republic Book X
Sept. 29th         Plato: Republic Book X                                  (Weekly Assignment)
Oct. 2nd            Aristotle: Poetics                                                                               
Oct. 4th                            Poetics                                
Oct. 6th                            Poetics
Oct. 9th                            Poetics                                                         
Oct. 11th                          Poetics
Oct. 13th          Horace: "The Art of Poetry”                              (Weekly Assignment)         
Oct. 16th          Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry                                              
Oct 18th                                  An Apology for Poetry
Oct. 20th                                  An Apology for Poetry
Oct. 23rd                                  An Apology for Poetry          
Oct. 25th                                  An Apology for Poetry
Oct. 27th          Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism         (Weekly Assignment)                       
Oct. 30th                                      An Essay on Criticism
Nov. 1st           Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads         (Weekly Assignment)                          
Nov. 3rd                                  Preface to Lyrical Ballads      
Nov. 6th           Neoclassicism V.S. Romanticism, “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” by Wordsworth         
Nov. 8th           Midterm
Nov. 9th           Exam Review
Nov. 10th -19th Fall Break
Nov. 20th         Matthew Arnold:  “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”    
Nov. 22nd                                     “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”                         
Nov. 24th         Introduction to New Criticism                                                              (Weekly Assignment)
Nov. 27th         T.S. Eliot: “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Nov.  29th        Introduction to Marxism                                                                    (Weekly Assignment)
Dec. 1st            Karl Marx: The Alienation of Labor from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Dec. 4th            Terry Eagleton: Categories for a Materialist Criticism        
Dec. 6th            Introduction to Feminism
Dec. 8th            Mary Wollstonecraft: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman   (Weekly Assignment)
Dec. 11th          Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own                     
Dec. 13th         Barbra Smith: Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
Dec. 15th         Introduction to Postcolonialism: Edward Said: From the Introduction to Orientalism
Dec. 18th         From the Introduction to Orientalism
Dec.  20th        A New Critic Reading of “The Flea” by John Donne
Dec.  22nd        A Marxist Reading of Snowpericer & “Let America be America Again”by Langston Hughes
Dec.  25th        A Feminist Reading of “My Last Duchess,” by Robert Browning
Dec.  27th        A Feminist Reading of  “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman (Weekly Assignment) Dec.  29th        A Postcolonial Reading of Rudyard Kipling’s, "The Man Who Would Be King"
Jan.  1st            A Postcolonial Reading of Things Fall Apart by Achebe                  (Weekly Assignment)
Jan.  3rd           A Postcolonial Reading of  Things Fall Apart
Jan.  5th            Review of the four school of criticism and Midterm Paper Due on LMS at 5 P.M.
TBA                Final Exam (2 hours)