ENGL*2120 (02) Seminar: Critical Practices (ENGL*2120)

Code and section: ENGL*2120*02

Term: Winter 2017

Instructor: Gregor Campbell

Details

This course guides students through a range of critical approaches and explores their implications for specific readings of a limited number of literary texts. The seminar’s main areas of concentration are (1) close reading, centering on the way a particular poem, work of fiction, play, or film works in its details and overall structure; (2) critical approaches and methodologies; and (3) critical writing and discussion.

Students will generate their own seminar topics in an ongoing dialogue between literary texts and specific schools of literary theory. We will have the freedom of returning to texts with new sets of questions; we will explore how literary theory illuminates literary texts and equally how literary texts contribute to ongoing cultural/political debates in such areas as feminism and gender study, psychology and psychoanalysis, and the future of humanities within the University in modern postindustrial, postmodern societies.

Syllabus

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