Study Notes on ENG 271: Practical Criticism III

Description

Study Notes on ENG 271: Practical Criticism III is an advanced course on literary criticism.

Outline

1. A BRIEF ON THE APPROACHES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
2. NOTES ON SELECTED AFRICAN WORKS

• • ‘Salute to the elephant’
  • ‘Owusu’
  • J.P. Clark’s ‘Fulani Cattle’
  • Okot p’Bitek’s ‘From the mouth of which river’
  • Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah
  • Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again

3. NOTES ON SELECTED NON AFRICAN WORKS

• • ‘Get up and bar the door’
  • Walter Raleigh’s ‘Nature that washed her hands in milk’
  • William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’
  • S. Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’
  • Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge

  4.REVISION AND PAST QUESTIONS