This advanced study of literary texts is designed to bring students into further contact with both contemporary and canonical literature. Literary theoretical concepts and categories provide means of close reading these texts, as well as the delivery of sophisticated ways of thinking about the literary. This should be of practical use to students in the Writing Strand. The debates explore the limits of the literary text (to hypertext and multimedia, as well as installations), and the functional operation of categories like author, genre, narrative, performance, subjectivity, ritual and text. No one theoretical approach, or set of approaches, is privileged. The analysis of the texts chosen leads students to their own innovative readings and applications which may fall between essayistic and more creative pieces of writing.

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