Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B, and 10C, or 11 and 87. Recommended: courses 120, 121. Taking its model from Raymond Williams' classic vocabulary of culture and society, investigation of fundamental theoretical concepts, or keywords, that have emerged from variety of intellectual disciplines to shape literary and cultural studies. Consideration of lexical development of such keywords; how they alter and enrich assumptions about textuality, readers, and authorship; and how they engender interpretive paradigms and methodologies for study of literature and culture. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 5.0