1:00p-2:15p TR (25) 3 cr.
COAS INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION. OPEN TO MAJORS ONLY. DECLARED MINORS
OBTAIN AUTHORIZATION
FROM BH442.
This course will introduce students to a variety of literary forms and
devices as well as
methods of literary analysis and interpretation. We will attend
especially to the
relationships between historical moments and forms of literary
experimentation, by authors
who engage the realm of “literature” from different positions in the
world. We’ll be
wondering throughout, what is “literature”? What is it for? How does
it work? Why bother
analyzing and interpreting it? What can we learn from different
processes of interpretation?
Authors will probably include Sophocles, Shakespeare, William Blake,
William Wordsworth,
Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson,
Langston Hughes, Wole
Soyinka, Adrienne Rich, and others. Since this is an intensive
writing course, students
will be expected to write several formal papers totaling at least 15
pages in addition to
critiquing each other’s work and doing other, less formal written
exercises concerning the
reading material.