EN 7301 Course Description
Contemporary Literary Criticism - This course offers a background in current literary criticism including approaches such as: Psychoanalytical, Feminist, Postmodern, and Postcolonial. Students are introduced to key thinkers in each school of criticism. These critical approaches are applied to a selection of contemporary masterpieces, such as, Proust, Poe, Kafka, Fuentes, Hawthorne, and Borges.
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What is Literary Criticism?
Literary criticism analyzes, interprets, or evaluates a work of literature. Criticism asks what literature is, what it does, and what it is worth.
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Research Competency Guidelines for English Literature
- Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in EnglishDeveloped by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Literatures in English Section
OED - Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary600,000 words … 3 million quotations … over 1000 years of English
The OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of past and present words from across the English-speaking world. Browse or search this incredibly rich resource.
This online version contains two separate texts: the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress.
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