Critical Approaches to Literature ((3))

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Introduction to various critical approaches and aesthetic theories used in the study of literature. This survey may include, but is not limited to, a history of literary aesthetics from the classical to modern periods, and/or contemporary theoretical paradigms that are influential in literary studies today. Twentieth and twenty-first century approaches may include historicist (old and new), traditional humanist, formalist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, among others.