EL 200 - Literary Criticism I:Ancient to Modern

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Saint Vincent College

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Description:

The basic framework for this course is historical, as students read and discuss critical statements from the ancient to the modern periods, beginning with Plato and ending with early twentieth-century critics such as T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Major influences and ideas that reach across authors and across cultural periods— mimesis, pragmatism, organicism and modernism—provide bases for schools of criticism as well as individual critics. Also, students learn how to do criticism—to write analytically about literature and to begin to develop a working understanding of the way the discipline is written. This intermediate level course requires three essays, a midterm, and a final exam. This course is required of all English majors. Three credits.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stvincent.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 539-9761

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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