ENGL 280 H01 24920

EngLit, AIU, VSR

Fiction, poetry, drama and other cultural texts engaged with questions of values, ethics and social responsibility. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102. FS: 10/02/2019. CL: 2020.

Notes:

This course, the 'gateway' to the English major, introduces you to skills and concepts used in the study of the English language and its literatures. The course covers three major areas: (1) language, including basic concepts in linguistics and history of the English language; (2) literary theory and interpretation, including the functional differences between fiction and communication and the structural analysis of fictional texts-lyric poetry (with meter), narrative prose, and drama; and (3) good expository writing style. Readings include traditional ballads, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, poems by Emil Dickinson, Hansel and Gretel, the Biblical book of Genesis (tr. Robert Alter), Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sophocles's Oedipus the King, Woody AlIen‘s 'Death Knocks," and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, as well as materials written by the instructor NOTE: we will be reading Genesis as literature with religious themes, not as religious doctrine. Students will be required to subscribe to a class e-mail distribution list.