CULTR ST 738 / Forms of Thought: (New) Critical Thinking and Writing

3 unit(s)

Cross-listed as ENGLISH 738

This course examines the arguments, methods, and political stakes of “new formalisms” in literary and cultural studies. In addition to learning to “read for form,” students will be introduced to a range of formalist practices and will be asked to reflect on the potential and constraints of different forms of intellectual work for their own scholarship and active citizenship.