ENG 4815 Spring 2019 Howell

This class treats the course’s title as a serious question. Answering it, and the process of answering it, are the main focuses of our class activities. But you can begin this class thinking that you know the answer, sure that you do not know the answer, or even believing that the question cannot really BE answered.

Another appropriate title for this class might be “What Can a Text Be?” We will be exploring texts and textuality in part by creating a lot of texts ourselves. By experiencing texts both intimately and at a distance, I am hopeful that we will gain a fuller understanding of what a text can be.

We will look at mediated communication very broadly, since the question posed by our course title seems to imply that we should be able to figure out what “not-a-text” is, too.