Critical theory and practice from 1900 to the present. Such aspects of the genre as scene, transition, character, and conflict. Discussion is limited to the novel. An examination of perception, diction, form, irony, resolution, and the critical theories of the major writers on poetry, such as Dryden, Coleridge, and Arnold. Second part of the study of the techniques of fiction.
Discussion is limited to the short story.
Intensive study of two or more major poets. May be repeated. A study of the major works of Henry James. Literary traditions of Old and Middle English, of Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, and Wales. Early forms, Tudor drama, Shakespeare's contemporaries, and Stuart drama to the closing of the theatres.