COURSE OBJECTIVES

to define literature as an imaginative entity which underscores the significance of the human condition by dealing the life, thought, and language of man;

to identify and study some crucial strategies and techniques of literature;

to analyze and interpret literary form and content through study of the ideas and devices employed by selected artists in pursuit of their craft;

to appreciate the fusion of writer and reader in their active and imaginative collaboration;

to regard the Self as metaphor in generating the relationship between a literary creation and the critical reader.

BOOKS REQUIRED

Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow. Viking Penguin.

Heart of Darkness & Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad (editor Daniel Schwarz). St. Martin Trade (VHPS), 1997.

Sula, Toni Morrison. New American Library. Trade Edition.

The Master Builder & Other Plays, Henrik Ibsen. Viking Penguin.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce. St. Martin's Press.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Joseph Gibaldi and Walter Achtert. Modern Language Association. Note: This book is required for all HUX courses.

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