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African-American Criticism

Paul H. FryYale University

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53:58·2009·undergraduate level

This lecture surveys African-American criticism through Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. It addresses issues of essentialism, identity, and expropriation in cultural studies, contrasting with New Critical assumptions.

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Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300)

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ENGL 300: Introduction to Theory of Literature

Surveys modern literary theory from Russian formalism, hermeneutics, semiotics, structuralism, and deconstruction to psychoanalysis, New Historicism, and postcolonial criticism.

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