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Course Description
Instructor: Bruce McMenomy
Starts: September 5, 2023
Ends: June 1, 2024
Wednesday 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET
Tuition: $550.00
There is more information at the teacher's course Website: American Literature
Prerequisites
The course has no absolute prerequisites, but English Literature or its equivalent is virtually required to assure success. If you have not taken my English Literature course, please contact me before enrolling in this one. We try to build on the cumulative skills of the previous years' work. World Literature introduces basic concepts of literary reading; Western Literature to Dante encourages extensive reading, while English Literature deals more with close reading. Here we attempt to combine techniques, looking minutely at some works while also reading an assortment of others in a way that will require a mixture of methods and techniques. For exceptions you must confer with the instructor to verify preparation.
Recommended background
This course expects a fair degree of preparation in literary discourse. I expect not only familiarity with the literary contents of English Literature but also the critical concepts we have developed: narrative voice and persona, negative capability, and something of the variety of symbolic language, as well as many of the techniques of close reading.
Textbooks and Materials
This item is required:
A Man for All Seasons (Vintage International) , Authors: Robert Bolt
ISBN: 0679728228
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: You may use any complete text edition of this play.
This item is required:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Edition) [Edition or Version: 3], Authors: Mark Twain, Thomas Cooley
ISBN: 0393966402
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: Please do not substitute another edition for this one. We will be using critical materials unique to this edition for class.
This item is required:
Moby-Dick (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition or Version: 3], Authors: Herman Melville, Hershel Parker (Editor)
ISBN: 0393285006
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: Please do not substitute any other edition. We will be using the special critical material unique to this volume, unavailable in other editions.
This item is required:
The Crucible (Penguin Classics) , Authors: Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby
ISBN: 0142437336
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: You may use any complete edition of this play.
This item is required:
The Old Man and The Sea , Authors: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 0684801221
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: You may use any available copy of this book.
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The Red Badge of Courage (Norton Critical Editions) [Edition or Version: 4], Authors: Stephen Crane, Eric Carl Link (Editor), Donald Pizer (Editor)
ISBN: 0393930750
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: Please do not substitute another edition for this one. We will be using the unique materials available in this particular edition for class.
This item is required:
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) , Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. Person
ISBN: 0393979539
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: Please do not substitute another edition of this book. We will be using the unique critical material in this volume, unavailable in other editions.
This item is required:
The United States in Literature (Three Long Stories) , Authors: James E. Miller Jr., Kerry M. Wood, Carlota Cardenas de Dwyer
ISBN: 0673293815
Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore
Other information: Please get this edition. If you cannot find the Three Long Stories edition, the other one will do, but you will need to track down those three stories in some other format.
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