Week 13: Challenges to Expressive Realism

Contents of the Lesson:

  1. New criticism
  2. Text as authority
  3. Close Reading
  4. Myth Criticism
  5. Archetypal Recurrence
  6. Reader Power
  7. Implied Author
  8. Language and ideology 

Material:

Attached herewith

For Further Reading:

A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present by M. A. R. Habib