This course approaches literary and cultural texts through a number of critical lenses including reader response, Marxism, feminism, historicism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction. The course is designed to introduce students to a variety of critical approaches to the interpretation of literary and cultural texts.
Course Instructor
Esther Wohlgemut
Charters, Ann (1999). John Updike: A & P. In The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.