Meeting Week Two: Aug 28
"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]
Reading Week Three -- September 7:
"From Classical to Neo-Classical
Theory"
On-Line Resources for
"From Classical to Neo-Classical Theory"
- Plato -- Wikipedia
- Plato
-- Robert Sarkissian
- "Plato on
Rhetoric and Poetry" -- Charles Griswold, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Plato's Aesthetics" -- Nickolas Pappas, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- notes
and questions on Plato's poetics -- Al Drake, U.
C., Irvine
- notes on Plato's Ion and The Republic -- Al Drake, U. C., Irvine
- notes on Plato's The Republic (Book 10) -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
- overview of Plato -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
- philosophical differences between Plato and Aristotle -- Al Drake, U. C., Irvine
- Aristotle -- Wikipedia
- Aristotle --
Robert Sarkissian
- Aristotle's Poetics -- John Zuern, U. of Hawaii, Manoa
- notes
on Aristotle's Poetics -- Arnie Sanders, Goucher
College
- questions on Aristotle -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
- notes on Aristotle's Poetics -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
- Aristotle
and The Poetics -- Joe Sachs, The Internet
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
- Abyss
Notes for Aristotle's Poetics -- Elisa
Kay Sparks, Clemson U.
- lecture
notes on Aristotle's Poetics -- Malcolm
Heath, Leeds U., U. K.
- notes
and questions on Aristotle's Poetics
-- Al Drake, U. C., Irvine
- more notes on Aristotle's Poetics -- Al Drake, U. C., Irvine
- Horace
- Sir
Philip Sidney -- Wikipedia
- Alexander Pope -- Wikipedia
- Samuel Johnson -- Wikipedia
- "The Sublime" -- Trevor Pateman (www.selectedworks.co.uk)
- notes on Longinus on the Sublime -- Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
Reading Week Four -- September 14:
"Romantic and Idealist Theory"
On-Line Resources for
"Romantic and Idealist Theory"