ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Gorgon, War Bride, Great Books
Document Summary
Know people because of/through writing despite culture/time period/language. Course based on classic literature, manifestation of world literature across time, background to english literature. Analysis of works, building block for english majors. Great books: path, way of walking through the literary tradition by stepping stones to cross river, follow path because related in some fashion, important, helpful, kind of a base for. Tutorials count for 35% of your overall mark, attend as many as possible (all) Essays: revising and writing well (3-4 pages, quality over quantity) Literary contexts, effects, religious texts as literature. Poetics, reliant on sound, qur an, inferno etc. Spoken quality, only way it makes sense. Gathered stories (canto s & decameron & arabian nights), little pieces of a story fit into a larger story. World as mirror of self, self as mirror of world, view of self. Othello, lens, different as you read other things.
