ENG 222 CX - Study of Literary Genre

4 Credit(s)

Each iteration of this course will focus on either one particular literary genre, such as the Gothic, detective fiction, historical novels, Realism, fairy tales, or satire, or on several genres in order to think about literary genre itself and how it is constructed. In literary terms, genre can be defined in a very broad sense (the novel, poetry, drama) or in a more specific sense (the medieval epic, Romantic odes). Studying genre is also a way of examining historical and cultural contexts, as well as how literature itself works: genres evolve over time and reformulate their formal definitions in reaction to cultural shifts, radical new styles of writing, and other factors.

Prerequisite(s): W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.