Module 1: Literary Criticism vs. Literary Theory

Nope. I know about the first, but I'm still learning the second.

Yes, and I know so because the Purdue OWL uses them that way.

Yes, and I know so because the LIT-500 course uses them that way.

I just want to be a creative writer.

Different but easy. After all, this is a literature class, and I love literature.

Philosophy. Why are we reading philosophy in a literature class?

Different and difficult, but I just need to slow down, and I'll get them.

Different, difficult, and incomprehensible at first. I'll need the help of my peers and the instructor to understand them.

perfect, so I'll make my way through this easily because of it.

not perfect, but it's good enough that I won't need any other resources.

horrible, and there's no help. I'm going to drop now.

imperfect, but there is plenty of help in the many resources to help you understand what you need to know.

am free to do literary criticism since that's all I know, but I will work toward understanding theoretical analysis since that's what I'm learning here.

am free to do literary criticism because it's the same thing as theory.

must get this right because I'm expected to know and apply theory correctly in Module One.

am already confused.

what happens when my cat eats my literary theory anthology.

a video resource my instructor has provided that goes into great detail about how to do theoretical analysis of a literary text.

manipulating the coding of literary theory.

chopping down the trees of literary theory.