EN 248 - Allegory and Fantasy

Institution:

Eastern Connecticut State University

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Description:

In EN 11 and EN 12, students experience several modes of essay writing and the genres of fiction, drama, and poetry.This course offers advice and practice in respond-ing to allegory, another genre of literature, which can be found in prose and in epic poetry.Understanding allegory is an enjoyable and liberating task.The dramatized meta-phors of allegorical characters, places, objects, and events are best viewed in ways that are neither reductive nor simplistic, but are flexible, non-doctrinaire, and open to transformation.Fantasy literature at its best is also more allegorical, provoking the reader not to escape reality but to engage reality more fully.Authors in this course may include E.M.Forster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Barbara Kingsolver, C.S.Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R.Tolkien, Voltaire, and Kurt Vonnegut.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.easternct.edu/

Phone Number:

(860) 465-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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