LIT 3112 Spring 2022 Coldiron

This course builds your knowledge of literary history and your skills of literary analysis. Fulfills an LMC Gateway/core requirement.  REQUIREMENTS: all technologies listed at https://distance.fsu.edu/student-guide. We survey literature composed in English, from roughly the 7th century CE (the date of the oldest extant poem in Old English, "Caedmon's Hymn") to 1798 (the date of the manifesto in the Preface to Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads). Focusing on genre, form, technique, and socio-historical contexts (including transnational contexts), we will seek both a broad, "big picture" view of 1,000 years of earlier English literary history and a "close reading" view of particular authors and works that form the broader survey.

This course fulfills a core course requirement for LMC majors.