FYSM 135 - Reading Culture

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Trinity College

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Description:

We read in order to reflect and act in a complex world. Developing and refining writing skills while focusing critically on reading practices enable a conscious emphasis on how we interpret our lives and the lives of others. Our course will examine reading and writing through looking at a variety of texts (novels, poems, and essays) focused on the thematics of reading including Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, Jane Austen's, Emma, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Darren Wershler-Henry's The Tapeworm Foundry, Michel de Certeau's "Walking in the City," Adrian Piper's "Passing for White, Passing for Black," selections from The Visual Culture Reader, and selected poems. These texts all provide ample space for thinking and writing about how cultural constructions shape identity, feeling, and education of the self into prevalent models for subjectivity. The course will not only address the thematics of reading in literature, but also how to read non-textual sources and concepts such as social space, gender and race. As a first-year seminar course, we will be able to spend a semester together not only reading interesting books, but also on improving critical thinking, speaking, and essay-writing skills through a series of essay and revision assignments. Sarah Willburn is visiting assistant professor of 19th century British literature and culture in the English department. Professor Willburn is completing her first book on nineteenth-century literature and popular mystical culture. Research interests also include spirit photography in the 1870s, and nineteenth-century auction houses. Areas of teaching speciality include British literature, poetics, literary theory, and gender 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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