everything.study
ENGL 102

Introduction to Critical Analysis

3 units

Fall 2023

Readings

  • Sophocles, Antigone Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl
    required
  • A Good Writing/Grammar Handbook: Recommended texts are A Canadian Writer’s Reference (Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. 6th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015) and The Little Penguin Handbook (Faigley, Lester, 4th edition. Boston: Pearson, 2014). Purdue’s open-access Online Writing Lab (“OWL”) is also a great free resource (linked to eClass). For specialized questions about citing sources, the Library has access to the MLA Handbook (8th edition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016.) A Glossary:
    recommended
  • Fowler, London: Routledge. 2006); A New Handbook of Literary Terms (David Mikics, New Haven : Yale University Press. 2007) Key Terms in Literary Theory (Mary Klages, London : Continuum
    recommended
  • ; The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Chris Baldick, 4th Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. The Oxford English Dictionary: This is the only dictionary
    recommended
Spring 2023

Readings

  • Sophocles. Antigone.
    required
  • Sadegh Hedayat. The Blind Owl.
    required
  • Jonathan Culler. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.
    recommended
  • “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound “The Sick Rose” by William Blake, “ZAH” by Sonnet L’Abbe. [MLA Style]
    unspecified
  • “Araby” by James Joyce
    unspecified
  • “Borders” by Thomas King
    unspecified
  • Antigone by Sophocles
    unspecified
  • “Film Analysis Introduction and Terminology” pdf on eClass, Malena, Giuseppe Tornatore (2000)
    unspecified
  • The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
    unspecified
  • A Good Writing/Grammar Handbook: Recommended texts are A Canadian Writer’s Reference (Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. 6th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015) and The Little Penguin Handbook (Faigley, Lester, 4th edition. Boston: Pearson, 2014). Purdue’s open-access Online Writing Lab (“OWL”) is also a great free resource (linked to eClass). For specialized questions about citing sources, the Library has access to the MLA Handbook (8th edition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016.) A Glossary:
    recommended
  • New Haven : Yale University Press. 2007) Key Terms in Literary Theory (Mary Klages, London : Continuum. 2012); The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Chris Baldick, 4th Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. The Oxford English Dictionary: This is the only dictionary
    recommended
Sources