This course is aimed at first-year students and intended to be taken in conjunction with the two-part Survey of English Literature lecture course. It is designed to provide students with the analytic tools that are necessary in the academic study of English and American literatures. Students will be introduced to key concepts of the study of literature and learn to apply them to literary texts in order to become more precise and effective readers, researchers, and writers.
In addition to developing students’ close reading skills, the seminar will give an overview of the major genres of literature – prose, poetry, and drama – and acquaint them with the literary conventions and terminology related to them.
Bibliography
Literary
texts that will be discussed in class will be made available on Moodle, but
students are asked to acquire the following book, which will be made available
at Librophoros:
Abrams,
M. H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 11th
edition. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2014.
- Enseignant·e: Kilian Markus Schindler