ENG-307 Literature Before Print

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
Medieval English literature. Exploring the differences between the way medieval people read–their experience of reading and their training as interpreters of texts–and the way we read today. The complexity and variance of texts created in a pre-print world. Introducrion to canonical and non-canonical texts of the medieval English period, with a focus on the question of what it meant to read in the Middle Ages. 4 credits.