ENGL 10LC: |
Introduction to Literary Study
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Quotidian Narratives |
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| Winter 2007 |
| Instructor: Jeffrey Beckstrand |
| Meets on: MW 5:00 PM - 6:40 PM |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2 or equivalent |
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| Satisfies second half of GE requirement for area A |
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| One of the following is required for the major and recommended for the minor: English 10, English 10AC, English 10EM, or English 10LC. |
Narratives live in strange and often boring places. In addition to general introduction to literary form, genre and method, this course seeks to examine the lives of ledgers, footnotes, indices, chess, weather, playing cards, lunchtimes, bicycles, magic, buttons, cookies, air conditioners, &tc.
This course will focus on narratives of "mundanity" during the technological culture of the A-bomb and Apollo era, with attendant attention to its origins and future.
Featuring novels, poems, plays, films, art, theory and music by Barthes, Queneau, O'Hara, Newman, Pollock, Beckett, Johnson, Coover, Nabokov, Cage, Duchamp, and Welles. |
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