LIT 3112.001 Fall 2023 Gatta

LIT 3112 is a core course for the Literature major, and as such, it provides an essential, foundational survey of literary-historical materials. This course introduces literature in multiple genres (poetry, prose, and drama) 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 literary manifesto in the Preface to Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads). Focusing on genre, form, technique, and socio-historical and aesthetic contexts (including transnational contexts), the course presents both a broad, “big picture” view of earlier English literary history, and a “close reading” view of particular authors and works. The predominant instructional activity will be discussion; assessments will also be based on what is learned in discussion.

Requirements

Core Course