CLAUDIE BERNARD FALL 2007

19 University Place , Room 627

Tel. home 212-387-8034; (office 998-8712)

E-mail cb1@nyu.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

(G45.1101)

WEDNESDAY, 4:10-6:10

Room: 225, 19 University place

This course is designed for students preparing the MA. It is intended to give training in close reading of texts and to show how theses analytical strategies serve the broader study of literature. The course will also introduce concepts and tools of traditional poetics as well as modern theory and methodology, and enhance the students' fluency in oral and written expression.

The texts are drawn from all periods of the Masters' reading list, selected from a variety of genres (prose fiction, poetry, theater, essays), and grouped around several critical problems.

The students are expected to read and comment articles in literary theory, to give several oral and written explications de texte , and to take a final exam.