This course provides practice in technical writing and correspondence while examining technical writing principles and style. Students are guided in polishing a technical research project and report from their own academic disciplines. By permission of the instructor. Emphasis is upon the modern writers, particularly O'Connor, Warren, and Faulkner, with attention to other writers according to student interest. A study of selected Renaissance writings exclusive of Shakespearean drama and Milton.
Emphasis is upon in-depth study of works selected by the instructor.
Emphasis is upon major works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson, with some attention given to the minor writers. Through oral and written analysis of British prose and poetry of ca. Works of imagination by these authors are studied in conjunction with contemporaneous biographical and critical documents. In addition to poetry by Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and the Pre-Raphaelites and to prose by Carlyle, Newman, and Ruskin, the course includes readings in several other writers who contributed memorably to the variety of Victorian literature. Through study of the entirety of a few acknowledged masterworks and of excerpts from a wide range of representative novels, the course attempts to expand the student's perspective of the achievement of British novelists in the two centuries surveyed.