ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychomachia, The Bachelors, List Of Narrative Techniques

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

Document Summary

Why study literature: to instruct and delight, to develop intellectual flexibility, adaptability and ingenuity, to open awareness to richness and complexity of language, to develop interpretive skills and information literacy, reading the culture . Ptolemiac universe (earth centred: each centre of all. Two forms of knowledge: sapientia = true wisdom, book of god (bible), revelation, scientia = profane knowledge, book of nature, reason. Theoretical assumptions in a discipline overall: key concepts = terminology, methodologies = methods of analyzing literature, current advances = where is literary study going, theoretical assumptions = basic assumptions underlying discussion of literature, discipline: A branch of instruction or education; a department of learning or knowledge; a science or art in its educational aspect. Learning outcomes: by the end of this course students will be able to: Describe the basic theoretical assumptions behind the study of literature;