C LIT 206
Early Literary Thought
Fall 2018 · History of Literary Theory I
Topics
- European literary theory
- Classical rhetoric
- Vernacular literature
- Romanticism
- Literature and society
Readings
- Plato. Republic, selections from Books II–III and X.
- Pseudo-Cicero. Ad Herennium, Book I.
- Dante. De Vulgari Eloquentia, Liber Primus.
- Du Bellay. Defense and Illustration of the French Language, Book I.
- Cervantes. Don Quixote, Part I, chapters 1–6.
- Wordsworth. “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”; “Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman”; “We Are Seven”; “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey.”
- Coleridge. “The Nightingale.”
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- C LIT 101 A1- World Literature I ↗2018
- C LIT 206 A1: History of Literary Theory I ↗2016
- No purchase required; assigned readings available online or on reserve. Course identity verified from syllabus header; archive link also mentioned C LIT 101 in error.