This course is comprised of a range of different free, online materials which will introduce you to the history and practice of English as a scholarly discipline with the goal of preparing you for your future endeavors as an English major. It has been designed to familiarize you with the various tools that scholars have devised in order to facilitate the study of literary expression in English, from critical frameworks to close reading techniques. After an introductory unit outlining basic approaches to literary analysis, we will embark upon a genre study, devoting each of the four remaining units to a different genre of writing: poetry, the novel, drama, the rhetorical essay, and the critical essay. In each of these units, we will review a general history of the genre, read a representative sample or set of samples, learn genre-specific critical terms and theories, and apply what you have learned to essays of your own. By the end of this course, you will have developed strategies that will enable you to understand, analyze, and critically respond to works in any genre at an advanced level.
American Passages: A Literary Survey provides professional development and classroom materials to enhance the study of American Literature in its cultural context. It is organized into 16 Units; each exploring canonical and re-discovered texts, and presenting the material through an Instructor Guide, a 30-minute documentary video series,literary texts and an integrated Study Guide.
This resource is an online Student Studyspace for The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Eighth Edition. This free student website helps students understand individual works and appreciate the places, sounds, and sights of American literature. The site features a variety of review material, including: more than 70 multiple-choice reading comprehension quizzes on widely-taught individual works; bulleted summaries of the anthology introductions; timelines; access to the American Passages image archive; literary places and author portrait galleries, and maps.
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