ENG-3090 Theory and Literature
This topic-based course will use a theory-centered approach to engage with texts and/or topics of literature. With a specific theoretical approach to literature at its center (i.e., psychoanalysis, performance studies, queer theory, feminism, post-structuralism, deconstruction), the course's goals are 1) to introduce students to extended and work in dialogue with one theoretical approach to literature by examining a number of primary theoretical texts, 2) to explore how this study of theory productively complicates a study of literature, and 3) to encourage independent thought, research and writing through an extended research project. Changing topics from semester to semester as per instructor's design, this course will treat primary text in theory and criticism as its focus, and incorporate literature as a means of exploring the practical uses of theory in study of literature and its culture.