CLL 151 - (LT) Studies in LiteratureSemester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
Designed to treat special subjects or authors at the discretion of the department, but with the student’s interest in view. Such subjects as existentialism, death, and the literary imagination, love in literature, or subjects of a like nature have been topics of recent analysis.
Current Special Topics
Literary Stylistics
Literary stylistics examines how readers interact with literary works, and how they understand and are moved by them. we consider how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carrying out stylistic analyses of poetry, drama, and prose fiction in turn. We will analyze brief texts and extracts from English literature, adopting an approach to the analysis of literary texts that can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages. Literary Stylistics provides a clear and broad-ranging introduction to stylistic analysis – covering all three literary genres in detail. The course provides an overview of stylistics as a whole and discusses the links between linguistics and literary criticism, and shows the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. We will cover all the major theories, concepts, and methods required for the investigation of language in literature, from meter to metaphor, dialogue to discourse. It also captures the latest major developments in stylistics, such as corpus, cognitive, and multimodal approaches to the study of style. The course begins with samples of stylistic analyses. Detailed analysis of each genre follows in subsequent modules, with writing assignments designed to develop skills in stylistic analysis. The course also includes a series of checklists of style features to look for when analyzing literary texts.
Avant-Garde
“Avant-Garde (the “frontline”) is an umbrella term describing counter-culture art movements launched in Europe the first half of the twentieth century that spread worldwide. Futurism (Italy, Russia), Expressionism (Germany, USA), Dada (Switzerland, Germany, France, New York) and Surrealism (Europe, USA, Latin America, West Indies) created new styles and processes (photomontage, collage, found objects, automatic writing, frottage, drip painting, etc.), and engaged in “in your face” political activism. Reacting against the culture and morals that led to two catastrophic world wars with manifestoes, performances, signed broadsides, they attacked and satirized the establishment. We will be viewing art, film and reading texts of the above movements and some contemporary trends, movements, artists which they influenced and shaped.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May be repeated when topics vary.
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