TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	3
SEMESTER	Fifth Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	7
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to discuss the development of literary theory from the classical period to the twentieth century.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This is a course which concentrates on the development of literary theory from the Classical Age to the Modern Period. The approach used is historical as well as conceptual. Discussions of primary texts will be done within the context of general theories which see art as Imitation, Inspiration, or Expression.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction: Major Elements of Theory (based on M. H. Abrams's "Introduction: Orientations of Critical Theory" in The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition) 2nd Week Classical Greek Criticism; Plato, excerpts from The Republic, Book III-VII-X 3rd Week Classical Greek Criticism cont.; Plato cont. 4th Week Classical Greek Criticism cont.; Aristotle, excerpts from Poetics 5th Week Classical Greek Criticism cont.; Aristotle cont. 6th Week Roman Criticism; Horace, excerpts from Ars Poetica; Midterm I 7th Week Medieval Theory and Criticism; Criticism and Literary Theory in Renaissance England: Sidney, Spenser, Puttenham, and Ben Jonson; Sir Philip Sidney, excerpts from ?An Apology for Poetry? 8th Week Neoclassicism and Neoclassical Criticism: Dryden, Pope, and Johnson; John Dryden, excerpts from ?An Essay on Dramatic Poesy? 9th Week Neoclassicism and Neoclassical Criticism Cont.; Samuel Johnson, excerpts from ?The Rambler?, ?The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia? and from ?Preface to Shakespeare?; Midterm II 10th Week Criticism in the Romantic Period: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and their contemporaries; Wordsworth, ?Preface to Lyrical Ballads?; Coleridge, excerpts from Biographia Literaria 11th Week Criticism in the Victorian Period; Matthew Arnold, excerpts from Culture and Anarchy 12th Week Modern Criticism: T.S. Eliot, excerpts from ?Tradition and the Individual Talent?
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Adams, Hazard, ed. Critical Theory Since Plato. San Diego: Harcourt, 1971. Blamires, Harry. A History of Literary Criticism. London: Macmillan, 1991. Crane, R. S., ed. Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952. Abridged ed. 1957. Goulimari, Pelagia. Literary Criticism and Theory. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. Habib, M. A. R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Leitch, Vincent B., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. Harland, Richard. Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes: An Introductory History. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999. Saintsbury, George. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe. 3 vols. 1900-4. Geneva: Slatkine, 1971. Selden, Raman, ed. Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present: A Reader. London: Longman, 1988. Wimsatt, W. K. and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History. New York: Knopf; London: Routledge, 1957.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Other,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 2 50 Assignment 1 10 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No