LIT 3124 Spring 2022 Cory

This course examines a smorgasbord of Anglican writers in a variety of genres and considerations from the Romantic period to the present. In this version of LIT 3124 we will discuss varying approaches to writing and reading, including the ways in which the surveyed authors break from conventions of form and style. We will also study authors who experimented outside the margins. Students are required to dialogue with the authors’ work and participate in inquiry. For instance, to what extent is it possible to disengage our twenty-first century sensibility when we approach a nineteenth century text? How can we bridge the gap between two centuries? What are the ways that allow us to enter a text? In what ways does literature matter? Together we will chew on questions such as these while we explore the artistic and historical movements in the survey of literature from roughly 1800 to the present.

This course fulfills a core course requirement for LMC majors.