ENG 201 - Introduction to Literary Studies (1)

Transporting us across time and cultures, taking us out of ourselves and into new worlds-what a wild ride literature takes us on! What strategies of reading and analysis can help us understand what it does-and how it works its spell on readers? The introduction to the English major will approach these questions through tactics for reading, analyzing and interpreting works of literature and their cultural moment, including the illuminating work of close reading. We’ll focus on understanding literary conventions, writers who challenge them, multiple genres or forms of writing-as well as hybrid ones, and will look into critical inquiry and theory that open up our reading worlds. We will develop our writing and research skills as we explore a variety of texts, including ones from diverse cultural moments and historical periods.

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(Humanities) (Writing Encounter)