Literary Criticism (Spring 2007)


Key Course Concepts

Agenda Items (RRRR Sequence)
This course asks you to read a small number of literary works, and a large number of critical essays. We will keep returning to the same set literary works time and time again, always with a new critical focus. Keeping...[...]
Rhetoric
The use of language to persuade, using some combination of emotion (pathos), character (ethos) and logic (logos).[...]
RRRR (Read, React, Respond, Reflect)
Read the assigned texts, react by posting an "agenda item" for each reading, respond to 2-4 items posted by your peers, and reflect on your developing understanding of the week's topic in a 2-3 page Critical Essay.[...]
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