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TESOL Certificate |
Literary Criticism and Theory
Students are expected to show an "organic understanding" of the reading list. Students should show a conceptual understanding of theoretical issues over an ability merely to summarize arguments. Students should be able to show that they understand the full question being asked. Students who wish to take questions in this exam area should meet with Professors Austin, Fitz, Manon, Mayer, and Wallen to discuss these texts prior to taking the exam. The payoff will certainly be felt.
Students are directed to the anthology edited by David H. Richter, The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, St. Martin’s Press, 1989. All of the following texts appear in this collection.
(More information about the MA Qualifying Exam can be found in the Guidelines.)
Plato |
The Republic , X |
Aristotle |
Poetics |
Horace |
The Art of Poetry |
Longinus |
"On the Sublime" |
Sidney |
"An Apology for Poetry" |
Pope |
"An Essay on Criticism" |
Kant |
from Critique of Judgment |
Schiller |
from Naïve & Sentimental Poetry |
Wordsworth |
"Preface" to Lyrical Ballads |
Coleridge |
from Biographia Literaria |
Nietzsche |
from Birth of Tragedy |
Marx |
from The German Ideology |
Lukacs |
"The Ideology of Modernism" |
Freud |
"Creative Writers and Daydreaming" |
Lacan |
"Seminar on The Purloined Letter" |
Shklovsky |
"Art as Technique" OR |
Bakhtin |
from Discourse in the Novel |
Wimsatt & Beardsley |
"The Intentional Fallacy" OR |
Brooks |
"Irony as a Principle of Structure" |
Mukarovsky |
"Standard Language and Poetic Language" OR |
Levi-Strauss |
"The Structural Study of Myth" |
Derrida |
"Structure, Sign, and Play" and "The Purloined Letter" |
Foucault |
"What is an Author?" |
de Man |
"Semiology and Rhetoric" |
Cixous |
"The Laugh of the Medusa" OR |
Gilbert & Gubar |
"The Parables of the Cave" |
Kolodny |
"A Map for Rereading" OR |
Baym |
"Melodramas of Beset Manhood" |
In addition, students should consider the following texts not included in the Richter anthology:
Lyotard |
"Answering the Question, 'What is Postmodernism?'" from The Postmodern Condition |
Heidegger |
"The Origin of the Work of Art" and "A Letter on Humanism" |
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English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Statement of
"Organic Knowledge"
for Literature and
Film
A student with "organic knowledge" of the reading lists will
1. understand the way individual texts reflect the material and intellectual conditions of the time of their production; this means that the student can perceive an author's work in reference to history, including literary or film history, and to contemporary social and philosophical issues;
2. consider the way texts exemplify the major concerns and formal features that critics have associated with literary or film periods, movements, and genres; further, the student will be aware of the ways that texts change, depart from, or undermine the conventions of movements or periods to which they belong;
3. in summary, be able, on request, to forge links between author or filmmakers, their individual works, and various intellectual, social, and aesthetic traditions, when applicable.