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This course introduces students to a wide array of contemporary critical models in the analysis of literature. It does so slowly, clearly, and with examples from literature. But why? Why do it? You’ve said it to yourself before: I read the book, so I know what it means. Throughout the course we will learn how to read all over again, but in a new and improved, lit critty way. In so doing, we will find out what we mean when we say we “deconstructed” something, or when a friend at a football game suggests that there is something seemingly irrevocable yet endlessly contingent in narrative frames and their desiring machines. Literary theory: it’s not for the faint of heart. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.