Eng180 Writing About Literature (Freshman) 2006 MIT

  

MIT

21L.000J  (Fall 2006)
Instructor:
Prof. Wyn Kelley

Level
Undergrad








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Costume design for Feste from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, created for the Federal Theatre Project under the Works Progress Administration. Graphite and watercolor by Robert Byrne (1935). (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Federal Theatre Project Collection, W.P.A. Transfer (159.7))

Course Highlights

This course features a full set of readings and a list of suggested assignments.

Course Description

Writing About Literature aims:
  1. To increase students' pleasure and skill in reading literary texts and in writing and communicating about them.
  2. To introduce students to different literary forms (poetry, fiction, drama) and some tools of literary study (close reading, research, theoretical models).
  3. To allow students to get to know a single writer deeply.
  4. To encourage students to make independent decisions about their reading by exploring and reporting back on authors whose works they enjoy.



The syllabus includes an eclectic mix: William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Henry James, Michael Frayn, and Jhumpa Lahiri. We'll explore different ways of approaching the questions readers have about each of these texts.


*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

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