Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English:

Theoretical Foundations

Enric Monforte

Jacqueline Hurtley

Bill Phillips

The Canon

Defining the canon

Matthew Arnold (1822-88)

I. A. Richards (1893-1979)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) /

http://hcgambrell.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/ash-wednesday

http://www.justrhetoric.com/journals_and_books

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21864/21864-h/21864-h.htm

Defining the canon

F. R. Leavis (1895- 1978)

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/334127/56964/FR-Leavis

The Great Tradition (1948)

Jane Austen George Eliot Henry James Joseph Conrad

http://srhernandez.wordpress.comhttp://dibujoartistico1.wordpress.co

m/2008/12/24/feliz-navidad/

http://mural.uv.es/ankay/firstpaper.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen

Defining the canon

Harold Bloom, The Western Canon (1994)

http://poesiamas.net/blog/2008/11/25/harold-bloom-la-critica-romantica/

Challenging the canon

Peter Widdowson (1942-2009) Re-reading English (1982)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jul/01/obituary-peter-widdowson-english

Challenging the canon

Terry EagletonMarilyn ButlerCatherine Belsey

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-reason-faith-revolution-terry-eagleton/http://www.britac.ac.uk/bookprize/

judges04.cfmhttp://www.chaucer.swan.ac.uk/

speakers.html

Challenging the canon

Frank KermodeSandra Gilbert Susan Gubar

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10535.html

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/06.10/01-

honorands.html

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/754

Liberal Humanism

F. R. Leavis

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/334127/56964/FR-Leavis

Cultural Materialism

Raymond Williams(1921-1988)

The English Novel From Dickens to Lawrence

(1970)Marxism and Literature

(1977)

http://centralintelligenceart.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-ve-found-myself-picking-up-

keywords.html

Cultural Materialism

John DrakakisAlan Sinfield Jonathan Dollimore

http://www.sinfield.org/directory/ http://english.jhu.edu/people/ http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/staff/john-drakakis/index.php