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Welcome to E456, Contemporary Literary Theory

Spring 2003 at Chapman University in Orange, California

This blog is a reconstruction of my notes/lectures for E456. I will post them as time permits. In one form or another, most of this material was made available to students at the time, but not always in formal guides. Unless otherwise noted, the edition used for our selections was Leitch, Vincent (ed.). The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 1st ed. New York: Norton, 2001. ISBN 0393974294. My wiki site Archive Menu offers a link to the course syllabus. contains the course syllabus and contains addithe information for students enrolled in this course; when the semester has ended, this blog will remain online, and a copy of the syllabus will remain in the Archive menu.