English 1413B1
Writing and Reading Critically
Slot 12 (10.00 - 11.20 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays)
BAC 204
"No Entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting" (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1753)
Literature is both useful and pleasurable. This introductory course encourages you to be a better reader, writer and critic, by inviting you to think, reflect, talk and write about a variety of carefully chosen literary texts. See the course outline for full details.
Texts
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000, Pocket Books)
John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven (1932, Penguin)
George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001, Gaspereau Press)
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982, Pocket Books)
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003, Seal Books)
Tim Winton, The Turning (2004, Harper Perennial)
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990, Broadway Books, New York)
See also Joanne Buckley, Fit to Print: The Canadian Student's Guide to Essay Writing (Thomson, Nelson, Seventh edition, 2009)
If you are a student with a documented disability who anticipates needing accommodations in this class, please inform me after you meet with Jill Davies or Suzanne Robicheau in Disability/Access Services, in the Student Resource Centre, lower floor of the old SUB. jill.davies@acadiau.ca 585-1127 or suzanne.robicheau@acadiau.ca 585-1913.