Ways of Reading: Adapting Shakespeare
ENGL 201A
Spring 2013
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"Ways of Reading" introduces students to the characteristics thought of as literary and the methods for studying them. This is a gateway course into the English major, and only one of the ENGL201 series may be taken for credit.
"Ways of Reading" courses develop strategies for careful and close reading, and techniques for the analysis of literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose narratives such as novels and short stories. They familiarize students with some of the protocols of the literary-critical essay, examine the idea of literature as a social institution, and explore ways of connecting textual details and the world beyond the text. The ways of reading learned in the course are powerful tools for critically assessing discourses that expand far beyond the realm of literature. So while students will become adept literary critics, they also will learn quickly that to be a literary critic is to read critically and carefully all the time: in poems, novels, and plays; but also in political speech, in popular culture, and in the discourses that shape everyday life.
This "Ways of Reading" course examines how select works from Shakespeare's corpus adapted works by his predecessors and contemporaries, how they were revised in print during his lifetime, and how they were revised and adapted by his successors on the stage, page and screen. Through guided exercises and short papers on topics such as textual criticism, formalism, historicism, intertextuality and genre, students will learn crucial tools, methods and concepts of literary analysis. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
William Shakespeare, Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear (and their respective source texts).
Stage adaptations by Nahum Tate, David Garrick, W. S. Gilbert, Tom Stoppard
Literary adaptations by Mary Cowden Clark, Margaret Atwood, Jane Smiley
Film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Baz Luhrmann, Peter Brook
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Examinations and Assignments:
The written work for the course will consist of a series of short assignments and papers. "Moodle" will be used as a Web resource. |
| Instructor(s): Korda,Natasha Times: ...W.F. 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: ALLB113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 8 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 15 | FR: 2 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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