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Literary Theory Survey Classes for Classics Undergraduates
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 108, Number 2, Winter 2015
- pp. 165-182
- 10.1353/clw.2015.0008
- Article
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After first arguing that literary theory should play a significant role in an undergraduate classics curriculum, this paper lays out the promises and pitfalls of one particular approach to making literary theory central: a full-unit survey class in literary theory, taught by a member of the classics faculty and responsive to (although not wholly structured by) the particular needs of classics majors. The basic model is evaluated through the exploration of a specific class taught by the author in a number of iterations.