100-level Literature & Linguistics Courses
104 - Approach to Literature
All 104 sections meet General Education Core Requirements for Literature (GLT) and AULER/CLER (BL/CBL)
104-08 TR 800- K. Inciardi
There’s a pretty good chance that if someone asked you why you like your favorite book, you could give him or her an answer. But have you ever considered how the writer put together his/her work in order to elicit that response in you? In this class, we will be looking at poems, short stories, plays, and a novel and discussing the conscious choices the writers made to create certain effects. You will discover that meaning cannot only be derived from the content of a text, but also its form. For example, writing a poem as a sonnet, with its very precise structure, is very different than writing in a looser, freer form—even if the subject matter is the same, the form can alter the mood of a text entirely. We’ll even analyze texts down to the line and discover how word choice, rhythm and sound add to the full meaning of a poem, story, or play.
104-09 TR 930- K. Inciardi
There’s a pretty good chance that if someone asked you why you like your favorite book, you could give him or her an answer. But have you ever considered how the writer put together his/her work in order to elicit that response in you? In this class, we will be looking at poems, short stories, plays, and a novel and discussing the conscious choices the writers made to create certain effects. You will discover that meaning cannot only be derived from the content of a text, but also its form. For example, writing a poem as a sonnet, with its very precise structure, is very different than writing in a looser, freer form—even if the subject matter is the same, the form can alter the mood of a text entirely. We’ll even analyze texts down to the line and discover how word choice, rhythm and sound add to the full meaning of a poem, story, or play.
