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ENGL 3810 Reading as Writing, Writing as Reading
fall 2008
Course limited to 15 students. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor* on the basis of a writing sample (critical/interpretive prose), which should reach him by the first day of class.
expanded description
"Have you never happened to read while looking up from your book," asked one theorist of reading, "not because you weren't interested, but because you were: because of a flow of ideas, stimuli, associations?" Students in this course will engage in the reading-writing process, reading a small number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels and poems, writing frequently about them, and reading each other's writing as collaborators and commentators. They will often "look up" from their reading to pay attention to the way writers' original literary works are often "readings" of the work of other writers and to the way our own readings may, critically and creatively, rewrite the literary texts we read. This is a course for English majors and non-majors who wish to extend their mastery of critical and interpretive prose and their understanding of what they do when they write it. It will be advantageous for those planning to write honors theses in English or another discipline. On the 2008 list: Nabokov's Lolita, stories and poems by Poe, Brontë's Jane Eyre, Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, James' Turn of the Screw, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours.
* Note: You do not need the instructor's permission to pre-enroll for this course. If you're considering it, go ahead and pre-enroll and seek and share more information later.
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