Some people think of it as a collection of citations from the past.
This would make it a rather boring exercise. Actually, we will be breaking in on critical discussions of the texts we read, discussions held all over the world by students, professors, readers, critics. We will be thinking about these questions and others as we participate in a truly global thought process. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and , if you have not yet purchased a copy, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles . The course will be conducted primarily as a workshop, with the emphasis on group discussion and critiques of readings and drafts.