ENGL 44207 - Criticism and Culture: British Traditions

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

A close survey of the major thinkers of the British literary-critical tradition in Britain. It will explain their cultural and theoretical propositions and show these against their historical, philosophical, and artistic backgrounds. Essentially, the course is about ideas and their history and context. Care will be taken to make students aware of the urgency and the polemics of writers such as Arnold, Ruskin, and Leavis, as well as delineating their essential concern for wider problems of a moral and social nature. British criticism, with its pragmatic and ethical interest, will be contrasted with European and American forms of interpretation and the relative merits of these systems will be studied. By the end of the course students will have a clear, yet sophisticated, set of analytical models and theories by (and against) which, they may judge literary production.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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