ENG 726 - Problems in Literary Form

(3 units)

Generic or cross-generic studies of literary structure.

Maximum units a student may earn: 8

Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
2. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
3. articulate the defining characteristics of formalist approaches, and to explain formalism’s place in the history of literary criticism and theory.
4. articulate the major questions and problems posed by genre theory, and to voice opinions about the role of form and genre in interpretation.
5. synthesize primary and secondary readings about a problem in literary form and genre.

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