Instr:                  Marcus Bullock
Office:               CRT 589,   229-6339, 351-3936 (home)
e-mail:                bullock@uwm.edu
Office hours:    by appointment

Course Information:                   TR   12:30-1:45pm   MER G16
 

Course Description

 This class will look at literary criticism written by people who are not primarily critics, but writers. Their interest in criticism usually begins with their awareness of the problems
 that they encounter in the process of composing their literary work, and which they more commonly solve by the practical application of literary techniques. Naturally, they are
very interested in reading how other writers have solved these problems or developed these techniques, and often their awareness of the issues from the aspect of practice gives
them vivid insights into the structure of other writers' work.

Texts:
We shall work through chronologically from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, and conclude with very recent material. We shall follow the tradition of criticism from
Wordsworth, de Quincey, Poe, Baudelaire, Valry, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, Beckett, Sartre, Borges, & William Gass, not restricting ourselves to commentary on English language
writing by Anglophone authors.

Ideally, I would like to pick our final reading from a review or essay that has been published during the semester. Students are very much encouraged to introduce critical
 writing to the class that they have found interesting in recent publications.