The language A: literature aims at exploring the various manifestations
of literature as a particularly powerful mode of writing across cultures and
throughout history. The course aims at developing an understanding of factors
that contribute to the production and reception of literature—the creativity of
writers and readers, the nature of their interaction with their respective
contexts and with literary tradition, the ways in which language can give rise
to meaning and/or effect, and the performative and transformative potential of
literary creation and response. Through close analysis of a range of literary
texts in a number of literary forms and from different times and places,
students will consider their own interpretations as well as the critical
perspectives of others, to explore how such positions are shaped by cultural
belief systems and to negotiate meanings for texts.
- Mr. Edwin: Edwin Su?rez