May 13, 2024  
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) 
    
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

ENG 119 - Gods and Monsters

Three Credits
Spring Semester

This course focuses on the dialogue between classical authors and later artists who re- visit, revise, re-voice the epic tradition. We will work on certain skills: close reading, engaging with and applying secondary literature, thinking through complex ideas, formulating readings of these texts that engage ourselves and our readers through the nature of their ideas and the vigor of their prose. Authors will include Euripides, Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Anne Carson We will also examine film, music, and dance.

Fulfills the Cornerstone Literature Requirement.