9:05A-9:55A MWF (25) 3 cr

COAS INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION

OPEN TO MAJORS ONLY. DECLARED MINORS OBTAIN AUTHORIZATION FROM
BH402.

This class will be concerned with questions about the nature and
practice of literary interpretation, and we will consider various
answers through reading, writing, and class discussion.  Students
are encouraged to keep a journal for this class in which they
record responses to literary as well as to interpretive works.=20
In addition, they will be required to hand in one-page response
papers at the beginning of each reading assignment.  We will
discuss and examine various poems or short stories (many of which
you may already be familiar with) in conjunction with several
competing interpretations in order to clarify our understanding
of the various aims and methods of literary interpretation.  We
are also likely to read longer and less well-known literary
texts, and consider some larger questions of literary theory.=20
This will lead us to call into question some of our received
ideas, while enabling us to test our methods of literary
interpretation on a broader range of texts.