This is our official class blog for Critical Responses to Prose, Spring 2012. However, as the web address suggests, our sub-theme for this course is 'gothic literature,' and much of our time in class will be spent discussing this unique--and long-lasting--genre, and particularly, how various theoretical approaches can uncover new meanings in what can seem like rather exhausted stories.
I will be posting questions each week for the readings, and you will be required to respond to ONE of these questions by Friday of that week (or a Wednesday, if a Friday is canceled). However, you don't need to worry about that this week...for now, look over the syllabus and be sure to buy the books for class (rather than wait until Week 9 to buy them, at which case the bookstore will have shipped them back!). I look forward to teaching this class (I've spent the December break reading and preparing for it, to the exclusion of all my other classes!) so I hope you will find it enjoyable, enlightening, and occasionally even fun. If nothing else, you need to read Dracula at least once in your life.
More soon!
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