ENG 1234 POP FICTION
This course situates literature in the broader media landscape, and considers how literature relates to other forms of popular culture: for example, music, music video, film, television and video games. We will investigate how literature influences pop culture and vice versa, and how this relationship intersects with larger social issues.
Course Types
Literature, Expression
Offered
Winter
- Students are expected to understand the basic principles and application of literary interpretation. To achieve this goal, students should be able to:
1) Perform a close reading, and explain how various formal aspects of a text – e.g., word choice, sentence structures, tone, paragraphing, formatting and punctuation – affect its interpretation. - 2) Examine how a text is shaped and produced by its original historical context.
- 3) Examine how literary texts channel, endorse, and respond to larger ideologies and cultural assumptions.
- 4) Compare literary texts with non-literary modes of expression (such as film, painting, and performance), in order to articulate what makes literature distinctive.
- 5) Produce written interpretations using the formal approach and at least one additional critical approach: historical, cultural, or modal.
- 6) Read and respond to literary criticism, to develop an awareness of its critical frameworks and structural conventions.