This page is the online class page for Augie's ENGL 200D--The Literary Experience--course.
We will add to this page as the semester continues. But this page will be our home base for texts that we are annotating online and, perhaps, for your response essays.
Some important links:
A quick how-to
Class list
Texts we're annotating
Model annotation
Another good annotation
After discussing the worth of literature using opinions by Thomas Jefferson (who called it "poison") and E.L. Doctorow (who essentially said literature was crucial for survival of humanity), one of our first assignments is to--in groups--come up with definitions of literature. In addition, these groups will consider some genres and works that might or might not be considered literature. Here are our results:
Group 3
Any work, written or non-written, that tells a story or uses devices to provoke thoughts.
In
novels
movies
music
dance
Out
small talk
blinking
On the border
Group 6
A thought-out creation intended to communicate with an audience, either visually or auditorally, which conveys a certain concept or emotion, allowing for individual interpretation.
In
academic textbooks
commercials
storytelling
Out
casual texting convo
On the border
Some forms of art--painting, dance, etc.
Since some of you mentioned music and specifically discussed spoken-word and hip-hop, here's a page with some excerpts from Jay-Z's writing
And another