Relevant models of discourse processing and methods of analysis will be reviewed and discussed. Empirical explorations will also include the dimension of second-language communication. Oxford University Press. 21.4.97 A constant problem for students of literature is to know what to do with biographical information about a writer. The New Critical tradition often avoids the personal and historical contexts of a work.
Biographical readings can distract from the text at hand or encourage naive, reductionist readings.
This course will consider how a writer's life informs the struggle, pursued in his or her work, to establish or discover a self, a struggle that is relevant, even crucial, to a writer's art. Additional materials will be supplied in class. Oral report, term paper. During any era the various modes of response to these blocks such as literature and art are likely to have great similarities. We know this but too seldom analyse what these similarities are.