After four long weeks, we're finally through with Conrad in EN/HU501! We spent quite a bit of time with the piece, using it as a tool to more fully explore the nature of literary analysis, close reading, generating good essay topics, brainstorming, and so on. One thing I've done differently in this iteration of the …
Building Textual Interpretation
Our first 501 course meets this evening, and I'm eager to get a sense of my student's experience with literature, literary history, literary research, and literary analysis. I've asked everyone to read an essay from Falling into Theory on the history of the discipline, as well as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and a few other …
Tonya Howe 