A general introduction to methodology will be included. May be repeated once for credit. Examination of crucial areas of artistic interrelations and the purposes and methods of studying them. Emphasis on signification, representation, intersemiotic transposition, imitation, illustration, style and period parallels. May be repeated for credit.
Examples are topics such as feminist theory, reader response criticism, hermeneutics.
May be repeated for credit. Topics may include politics and the novel, new historicism, the theory of ideology. May be repeated for credit. Topics may include Freud and literature, Lacan and literary theory. Topics may include traditions of Christian literature, mystical poetry.