Lyric Poetry and the Novel

(4 Credits)

This course introduces students to fundamental terms and critical methods employed by literary scholars through an examination of two case studies: lyric poetry and the novel. Topics to be investigated include: the relationship between text and context; close versus distant reading; the nature of authorship, genre, the interplay of local, national, regional, and world modes of categorization; translation, book history, and the relationship between literature and other forms of art. Each unit of the course is constructed around an anchoring text or texts that will be contextualized both historically and generically through a wide range of primary and secondary readings.