Many late 19 th century writers are still asking the question that writers, such as Emerson, Whitman, Frederick Douglass, attempted to answer earlier in the century. This course will focus on how American writers from 1865-1910 describe in several different genres the unique American character. Taming of the Shrew , Richard II, I Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest . Films accompany the study of each play. Taming of the Shrew , Richard II, I Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest .
Films accompany the study of each play.
Readings will include works by nonfiction artists like Henry David Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Aldo Leopold, and Terry Tempest Williams, and by poets like Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry. We'll be reading some of the most famous and most beautiful poems in the English literary tradition. This course focuses not on what literary texts mean, but on how they mean. We will consider how the technology of language transmission orality, literacy, print, electronic media-affects the ways in which words mean and how narration gets mentally processed. An introduction to the fundamentals and procedures of newswriting and editing.