FYS499
Reading Literary Space
English
BC
Subject code
FYS
Course Number
499
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
S. Dillon
Course Long Title
Reading Literary Space
Description
Stories are not only structured and shaped, they move through different kinds of cultural spaces and geographies. In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard argued that poems, too, have found their basic images in archetypal spaces: houses, rooms, and shells. Recent years have brought a "spatial turn" to the humanities, where issues related to race, gender, and sexuality have been productively organized by an attention to maps, contradictory spaces, networks, and mobilities. In this course students read poems, short stories, and theoretical texts with an emphasis on spatial interpretation.
Writing Credit
W1
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude Sophomores, Exclude Juniors, Exclude Seniors, 05