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English CRI200C - Spring, 2011
Class Information
Instructor:
Ferguson, Margaret
Time:
W 12:10-3:00
Location:
248 Voorhies
Description
CRI 200C - History of Literary Criticism: Traditions of Defending and Attacking Poetry
Margaret Ferguson
Wednesdays, 12:10-3:00 p.m.
Location: 248 Voorhies
CRN 27825
The seminar will focus on attacks and defenses of poetry (broadly construed as fiction-making) from Plato through Sidney, Spenser, and Protestant anti-theatrical writers to Peacock and Shelley; there will be a unit investigating how defenses of poetry overlap with defenses of vernacular European languages in the late medieval and early modern periods and there will be a final unit on modern debates about the existence of a specifically
"literary" language or language-function (de Man, Johnson, Jakobson).
Grading
Participation, question-groups, seminar paper
Texts
The Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1st edition ed Leitch
Course Reader at Davis Copy Shop
