Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Summer Quarter 2008
• Autumn Quarter 2008

Nicholas Halmi
C LIT 507
Seattle Campus

History of Literary Criticism and Theory I

A general introduction to the major issues in the history of criticism followed by the study of the classical theorists, including Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, and the major medieval critics. Offered: jointly with ENGL 507.

Class description

AUTUMN 2004: This is the first in a series of courses on the history of literary criticism and theory in the West. It will examine ancient Greek poetics, aesthetics, and hermeneutics by means of intensive reading in and about texts by Plato, Aristotle, and Porphyry (in English translation). This course fulfills a requirement for the PhD program in theory and criticism.

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