ENG 608 - Survey of Literary, Rhetorical, and Composition Theory

Credits: 3

Focusing on the study of the construction of texts through reading and writing, this course introduces students to the graduate-level study of literary, rhetorical, and composition theory, which are the three major kinds of theory studied and developed in the study of English today. It examines each of the three kinds of textual theory as discrete entities, and it examines the areas of overlap among the three. Students will become conversant in all three kinds of theory and will be able to enact them in the appropriate contexts.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Master of Arts in English (MAE) program or permission from the Director of the MAE program.

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