ENG 120-01 - Literary Analysis

4 credits (Spring)

Reading the Body. Good writing is often described as vivid, visceral, sensual, and therefore rooted in the body. But what makes writing feel embodied? What makes literature feel lived-in and fleshed out on the page? This literary analysis class will examine the stylistic and narrative conventions of a variety of body-centric short stories and poems, from the realistic and lyrical to the satirical and the horrific. Readings will include classic and contemporary work by Mary Shelley, Jamaica Kincaid, Denis Johnson, Carmen Maria Machado, and Elizabeth Bishop on themes such as lust, death, motherhood, and body image, as well as selections of literary theory.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Dantas Lobato