Ways of Reading: Stories and Storytelling
ENGL 201D
Spring 2025 not offered
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In this section we will read literary, philosophical, and scholarly works that explore stories and storytelling. Some of the questions we will consider are: what makes a story a story? What are its building blocks? How does it matter if a story is told in verse or prose, in a book or onstage, orally or in print? What human, personal, and societal needs are served by telling and consuming stories? How do literary texts incorporate or represent the activities of telling stories and of listening to, reading, and watching them? We will define and examine foundational aspects of literary narration, including first-person and third-person narrators, events, plot, voice, and setting and worldbuilding. We will also practice and develop skills in literary analysis and interpretive, scholarly writing. |
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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 |
Major Readings:
Poems by writers from Gwendolyn Brooks to William Wordsworth; Jane Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE; Lord Byron, excerpts from DON JUAN; Willa Cather, Book One of MY ANTONIA; S. T. Coleridge, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER; Joseph Conrad, THE SHADOW LINE; Amitav Ghosh, THE SHADOW LINES; Seamus Heaney, transl., excerpt from BEOWULF; Henry James, THE TURN OF THE SCREW; William Shakespeare, HAMLET.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Reading exercises and papers |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Gateway course for English major. Priority enrollment will be given to prospective English majors during Drop/Add.
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