How do plays represent the world? How do they produce new worlds? This course will examine the form and content of English & American drama from the end of the nineteenth century, the beginning of “modern drama,” to the contemporary stage. This course will require attentive class participation as well as a midterm exam and a final paper. We will read to understand the pleasure that comes from reading poetry, but we will also examine the formal qualities of the poems in the attempt to understand the ways in which poets create meaning. Our readings will include the Romantic poets, modernism, language poetry, conceptual poetry, and more. What is poetry? What is it that poetry can do that prose writing (or other forms of art) cannot? In this course we will read a variety of poems over several centuries in the English and American traditions with special attention in the American 20th century. Articulate how film shapes and is shaped by cultural beliefs, values, and ideas.Explore connections at the level of ideas across multiple film texts.Explain the formal and stylistic choices available to filmmakers and how they are used to communicate meaning.Identify significant details and patterns of repetition in the films you watch.Analyze a film based on its content and form.Recognize film as a mode of creative expression, storytelling, and entertainment.We will watch, discuss, and write about a variety of movies, examining their formal aspects (their individual parts and how they are put together), their significance (what they mean), and how they relate to their historical context (when, how, and why they were made).Īt the conclusion of this course, you will be able to: This course is an introduction to the academic study of film, looking at cinema as an art form, a social and cultural institution, and an industry. But, in doing this, we should also ask ourselves what counts as literature? Why are some works of fiction considered great and canonical while others are relegated to the margins of history? Or, to put this differently, is English literature the only literature capable of creating great works of art? With this in mind, and at the risk of being haphazard, the reading for this class will jump across different time periods and regions, and various different forms in order to not only understand literature but also understand what comprises it.
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What constitutes literature? Yes, it’s crucial we learn how to read, think and analyze literature that we understand it and contemplate its various formal mechanizations and how they arise in different genres.
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