LIT 410-0
( Core Course ) Introduction to Graduate Study
This course offers a broad, accessible introduction to several schools of critical thought, giving students access to some of the approaches and techniques for the study of literature on a graduate level. We will examine a number of literary texts through the prism of formalism, post-structuralism, gender, postcolonial and reader-response theories, as well as new historicism and cultural studies. These texts are chosen from representative European and American works of realism, modernism, and postmodernism in order to review the basic trajectory of Western fiction. Examples of self-conscious narratives that stress the act of writing and play with readerly expectations will allow us to address questions of literary production and consumption. Required of all MALit students within the first year of study.
