Satisfies COAS Intensive Writing and AHLA
Requires registration in W333

This is an introductory course in literary interpretation required of
Comparative Literature majors and recommended for other students
interested in the study of literature. Class sessions will introduce
basic methods and concepts of criticism through close reading and
discussion of
texts by major authors (drama, short fiction, and poetry). There will
be four papers on specific assigned topics. The thematic focus this
semester will be on the performance of identity across different
genres. This course carries writing intensive credit. Readings will
include works by Austen, Balzac, Pushkin, Chekhov, Yeats, Camus,
Beckett, Calvino, Friel, and Deavere Smith.

The course provides an introduction to literary interpretation. It is
required of Comparative Literature majors, and recommended for other
students interested in the study of literature. Critical concepts and
interpretive techniques will be introduced through close readings of
lyric poems, plays, essays,  and pieces of short fiction. There will
be five short papers on assigned topics.