ENGL 318
Literary Taste and After Taste
Last Offered Spring 2024
Division I
This course is not offered in the current catalog
Class Details
Why are some literary works acclaimed or neglected when they first appear, and why do their critical assessments change–sometimes drastically–over time? What does it mean to think of a work as ‘before its time? What is the relation between critical trends and their affinity for particular literary styles? In thinking about these issues, we will consider a few crucial instances: modernist poets and New Critics’ celebration of Donne and Marvell over Milton in the early 20th century; 18th and 19th century writers’ fascination with medievalism and the Gothic; deconstructionist critics’ absorption with Romantic poetry; Marxist and neo-Marxist critics’ qualified embrace of realism and critique of postmodernism; and recent and contemporary debates about the relation of aesthetic forms to representations of race, ethnicity, and gender.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 15-20
Class#: 3793
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 20
Expected: 15-20
Class#: 3793
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
class participation and two essays, approximately 20 pages of writing
Prerequisites:
a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences:
English and Comparative Literature majors
Distributions:
Division I
Attributes:
ENGL Criticism Courses
ENGL Literary Histories A
ENGL Literary Histories B
ENGL Literary Histories C
ENGL Literary Histories A
ENGL Literary Histories B
ENGL Literary Histories C
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ENGL 318 - SEM Literary Taste and After Taste
ENGL 318 SEM Literary Taste and After TasteDivision INot offered