What you'll learn
- In this course, you will first learn major theoretical ways of critical reading and then learn to apply these skills while reading some texts provided through the course. You will also learn how to use these skills in developing critical skills useful in real life situations.
Requirements
- You should be interested in viewing/ reading the course materials and should be willing to practice what you learn.
Description
This is an ever-growing course and new materials will be added regularly.
Designed for students and beginning scholars of English Literature, this course will introduce you to major schools of thought in English literary theory and literary analysis. Besides the video lectures, the course includes textual resources, links to longer and more detailed videos, and links to the resources on my website.
What You Will learn:
All major approaches to English literary theory and analysis.
How to read texts critically and how to understand literature from various theoretical perspective.
Who this course is for:
- This course is ideally suited for undergraduate English and humanities majors and minors and anyone else interested in developing their critical reading and analysis skills.
Course content
- Preview03:06
- Preview15:33
- 04:13What is Literary Theory?
Instructor
![Masood Raja](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
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- 487 Students
- 3 Courses
Author of several books, Dr. Masood Raja is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies and teaches courses on literary and Postcolonial theory.
Raja also constantly offers free educational materials through his website and on his YouTube channel.
Raja and his wife, Jenny, live on an 1890 farmhouse in North Texas and share their home with three cats, one dog, and several chickens.
Qualifications
PhD. in English, Florida State
Masters in English, Belmont University
Bachelors in English, Belmont University
Diploma, Japanese Language, NUML, Pakistan
Teaching Experience
Twenty Years
Books Published
ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics and Counter Narratives, Routledge, 2019.
The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America, Palgrave, 2016.
Constructing Pakistan, Oxford, 2010.