Week One -- August 23:
"Introduction to Literary and Cultural Criticism and Theory"
On-Line
Resources for:
"Introduction: Theory in a
Post-Theory
World"
- "What Use is Literature?" -- Myron Magnet, City Journal
- On the Uses of Studying Literature -- John Lye, Brock
U., Canada
- The Problem of Meaning in Literature -- John Lye, Brock
U., Canada
- Theory
Checklist: A Working Document -- John Lye, Brock
U., Canada
- Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory -- John Lye, Brock U., Canada
- The
Differences Between Literary Criticism, Literary Theory
and 'Theory Itself' -- John Lye, Brock U., Canada
- Core Topics Addressed by Theory -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
- What is Literary Theory? -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
- Literary Theory -- Vince Brewton, U. of N. Alabama, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Literary Criticism" -- René Wellek, Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- "Literature and Its Cognates" -- René Wellek, Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- "Culture and Civilization in Modern Times" -- Frederick M. Barnard, Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- "Critical
Methods and the 20th Century's 'Theory Wars'" -- Arnie
Sanders, Goucher College
- timeline of literary aesthetics and periods -- Warren Hedges, Southern Oregon U.
- timeline of major critical paradigms -- Warren Hedges, Southern Oregon U.
- Introduction to Literary Theory, 1 -- Paul H. Fry, Yale U. [video lecture #1 of his Literary Theory course]
- Introduction to Literary Theory, 2 -- Paul H. Fry, Yale U. [video lecture #2 of his Literary Theory course]