Dr. Federico 3 credits

          The purpose of this course is to build and reinforce good habits of close reading and careful textual analysis. We will spend considerable time looking hard at our primary texts and the genres they represent. We’ll also study various critical approaches as practiced by experts; learn how to pursue sound research and write great English papers; and develop confidence and poise in speaking about our encounters with sophisticated literary works.

Required Course Texts:      
Leo Tolstoy and Tillie Olsen, The Riddle of Life and Death: Tell Me a Riddle and The Death of Ivan Ilych
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
John Keats, Poems
Mary Oliver, American Primitive and A Poetry Handbook           
Henry James, Washington Square
Kennedy, Gioia & Bauerlein, A Handbook of Literary Terms
Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook, 7th edition

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