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The Ph.D. in Textual Studies grows out of interdisciplinary developments in the humanities in recent decades that seek to emphasize the importance of discourse in structuring human experience. The concentration in Textual Studies assumes a broadened definition of texts that spans both "high" and "low" culture, as well as methodologies that take into account a broad variety of historical and cultural materials.
Using these developments as a starting point, Textual Studies courses will place texts within complex social constructions. Literary texts may be included in a textual studies course; however, when literary texts do come into play, they are viewed as an embedded constitutive cultural element.
Courses include:
- 8000 Methods and Contexts of Literary Scholarship
- 8020-39* Special Topics in English
- 8100* Independent Study (1-6 hours)
- 8211 Medieval Literature
- 8230 Chaucer
- 8232 Shakespeare's Tragedies
- 8233 Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories
- 8242 English Renaissance Literature
- 8244 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
- 8254 English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
- 8256 Milton
- 8264 English Poetry and Prose, 1660-1800
- 8265 Eighteenth Century British Novel
- 8276 English Literature of the Romantic Period
- 8278 Victorian Literature
- 8280 Nineteenth Century British Novel
- 8291 Modern British Novel
- 8292 Modern British Poetry
- 8293 Modern British Drama
- 8323 American Literature to 1865
- 8324 American Literature, 1865-1914
- 8325 African American Literature, 1930-1960
- 8326 African American Literature of Memphis and the Mid-South
- 8391 Modern American Novel
- 8392 Modern American Poetry
- 8393 Modern American Drama
- 8411 European Literature to Renaissance
- 8412 European Literature since Renaissance
- 8441 European Fiction
- 8442 Modern European Drama
- 8451 Women and Literature
- 8452 Biography: Process and Text
- 8462 Contemporary British and/or Commonwealth Literature
- 8464 Contemporary American Literature
- 8465 African American Literature, 1960 to the Present
- 8466 Contemporary World Literatures in Translation
- 8467 African American Literature, Beginnings to 1900
- 8468 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- 8469 African American Women Writers
- 8473 Verbal /Visual Texts
- 8474 Cultural Texts
- 8476 Modern Popular and Literary Tradition
- 8477 Textuality: History, Culture, Form
- 8478 Textuality and Identity
- 8479 Studies in Cultural Figures
- 8480 Cultural Theories
- 8481 Early Popular and Literary Traditions
- 8701 Historical Perspectives on Literary Criticism
- 8702 Contemporary Perspectives on Literary Criticism
- 9000 Dissertation (1-9 hours)
* May be used when the subject matter is appropriate to this concentration. Repeatable to a maximum of six hours.
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