Ways of Reading: Reading Regions
ENGL 201N
Fall 2013
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01
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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 will introduce students to methods of textual analysis through the study of regional (and regionalist) American prose, poetry, and drama. We will consider the ways in which place shapes literature, the ways in which literature reflects (or refracts) place, and the ways in which textual details gesture towards (or move beyond) the worlds they attempt to represent. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBA, but will include works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Charles Chesnutt, Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short papers, reading responses, class participation. |
| Instructor(s): Mahurin,Sarah Joanna Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: DWNY100; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 15 | FR: 2 |
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