1:00P-2:15P TR (25) 3 cr

COAS INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION

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

This course will introduce students to various methods of reading
texts, most of them literary.  It will begin with a close reading
of poetry and drama, emphasizing the principles of American
formal analysis.  We will read selections from Blake, Keats,
Yeats, Eliot, Dickinson, and Paul Muldoon; and consider plays by
Shakespeare, Beckett, Caryl Churchill, and Karen Finley.  We will
also read several novels in the class -- by James Joyce, Emily
Bront=89, and Ian Fleming -- and consider various approaches to
Cultural Studies in the last weeks of the course.  This includes
the critical reading of film.  The class will also examine
various methods of reading two seminal texts, HAMLET and PORTRAIT
OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN.  These approaches include
psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxian political analysis.