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Apr 20, 2024
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ENGL189D PO - Literature and Social TheoryWhen Offered: One-time only; fall 2019.
Instructor(s): E. Kindley
Credit: 1
How do literary forms and genres develop over time? What factors motivate authors and other figures in the literary world, and what role do institutions like the market, the state, and the educational system play in this process? How is literary value assessed and perpetuated? How do readers interact with literary texts in order to create meaning? And how do theories of society and the social influence literary authors directly? This course will introduce students to some of the most influential sociological theories of literature developed over the course of the past century and a half. Theorists studied may include Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, René Girard, Raymond Williams, Janice Radway, Pierre Bourdieu, Wendy Griswold, and Bruno Latour.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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