Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 03

Semester: Fall - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
This semester I am debuting a new approach to Critical Approaches to English, which might best be described as a kind of methodology course for English. We will approach reading and writing about literature through three recurring components: analysis, argument (thesis), and editing. Close analysis or close reading empowers students by providing them with the tools to write and argue about texts from a place of knowledge, by creating data about symbols, word choices, sentence structure, allegory, etc.. Students will learn to recognize theoretical approaches to literature with the hopes of strengthening their own arguments in essays. We will explore editing as a personal writing practice and as a way to understand the formation of literary texts. To that end, assignments will probably be short but culminate in a final essay project that draws on previous writing during the semester. They will be supported with exercises that introduce students to best research and reading practices. Exploring Mary Shelley’s revisions to Frankenstein will destabilize our notion of the text and authorship. The main reading for the course will be the book Total Frankenstein: 1818 & 1831 Versions by Mary Shelley (Seawolf Press: ISBN 978-1950435852).


Last updated on 2021-04-05 By Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Is course canceled: No