ENGL200014
TR 11-12:15
SHL 122

Kainoa Harbottle
kharbot@udel.edu
Office: MEM 213
Office Hourse:
T, R 3:30-4:30 and by appointment

The purpose of this course is to allow you to explore the genres of poetry, short story, and drama. You will be searching for ways to approach these texts, not only in order to discuss and write about them intelligently, but also to enjoy them. Beginning with poetry from our own and earlier times, we will examine questions that can be applied to all forms of literary studies:

What is “literature” and what does it mean to “read” it? Is the meaning of a text created by the author or constructed by the reader? How do form and genre shape the act of reading? What are our expectations when reading literature? How do we begin to translate our complex and often contradictory experience with a text into an essay or commentary about a text?

What you learn about poetry will then be applied to prose and drama, expanding your vocabulary and sophistication along with your writing skills.

• Great American Short Stories. Dover Thrift Edition. ISBN: 978-0486421193

• William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew. Dover Thrift Edition. ISBN: 978-0486297651

• Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest. Dover Thrift Edition. ISBN: 978-0486264783

• Access to this website, the internet, & a means of printing necessary documents. If you live off campus, here is the link for UD's Proxy Server.

• A University of Delaware E-mail account.

• A Blogger account.

• A supply of 8½ x 11 binder paper.

•  The Bedford Handbook

• A good dictionary—Remember that you have online access to the Oxford English Dictionary via the library’s networked databases.