21L.000J / 21L.010 / 21W.734J Writing About Literature, Fall 2006
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Author(s)
Kelley, Wyn
Alternative Title
Writing About Literature
Date Issued
December 2006
Abstract
Writing About Literature aims: To increase students' pleasure and skill in reading literary texts and in writing and communicating about them. To introduce students to different literary forms (poetry, fiction, drama) and some tools of literary study (close reading, research, theoretical models). To allow students to get to know a single writer deeply. 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.
Subjects
21L.000J
21L.000
21L.010
21W.734J
21W.734
reading
writing
literary criticism
literary texts
Dickinson
Shakespeare
Hughes
Chekhov
Joyce
Walker
Melville
Morrison
analytical skills
essays
analysis
communication
poetry
fiction
drama
Lahiri
Frayn
textuality
conceptualization
film
media
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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