ENG 120-02 - Literary Analysis

4 credits (Spring)

“Travel Narratives.” In this course we will read travel writing by novelists, journalists, and explorers from different historical periods. Before the great upsurge in tourism in nineteenth-century Europe, travelers who ventured across the seas in search of trading opportunities or on journeys of exploration returned with tales of people and cultures different from their own. In the last hundred years or more, tourism has become one of the most important activities of the middle and upper classes. The purpose of the course is to study the formal features of different literary genres from the eighteenth century to the present. Readings for the course include the poetry of William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, and Derek Walcott, short stories by Flannery O’Connor and N. Scott Momaday, and fiction by Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Jamaica Kincaid and Teju Cole.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Kapila