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Show Introduction To Literature At U. Introduction to Literature (English 250-R) will be taught through the University of Utah's extension service at Davis County on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. The course began on Tuesday, April 3 and registration regis-tration for the course is open until Friday, April 6. THE COURSE offers five hours of liberal-education credit for the returning night student or the regular day student on campus who would like to take extra hours at night. It is also open to all persons interested in literature litera-ture and is meant to provide the basic skills for approaching a literary work in itself. It is meant to generate a basic appreciation for and a continued interest in literature. litera-ture. THE NORTON Introduction to Literature (ed.. Bain Beatty and Hunter, second edition) is the text for the course. The course will be broken into genre sections and selections will be read and discussed within each genre. The elements that make up either fiction, poetry or drama such as setting, characterization, imagery theme, techniques of language lan-guage use, etc., will be discussed dis-cussed in relation to each work. The student will be taught to appreciate a work in itself as a work of art first. Later they will try to place a work within its context in literary history. THE COURSE will move from the short-story, through drama to poetry. Representative Representa-tive selections from the text will be used. Some of the short stories to be read include Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener", James Joyce's "The Dead," D.H. Lawrence's "Odor of Chrysanthemums." The plays will inchide Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara," and Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyran-nus." Tyran-nus." Selections from poets from John Donne to T.S. Eliot will be used in discussing forms of poetry. Readings will be paced according to the level of the class allowing for both informative lectures and discussions. dis-cussions. FEROZA Jussawalla, who is the instructor for the course, is offering the course encouraged by the response to the Shakespeare class taught by her last quarter. She felt she had a cohesive and a bright group who enjoyed literature and who were fun to ffarh The class watched several film versions of Shakespeare plays and went to performances perfor-mances in town and discussed the content of the plays and the productions. The students who were interested and completed the course seemed to come to a better understanding under-standing of looking at each play as a work of art in itself and an appreciation for Shakespeare's craftsmanship. crafts-manship. THE COURSE helped them move away from an over preoccupation pre-occupation with history and background. Each author has his own style and his own techniques of craftsmanship and one has to leam to look at literature as you would at an artist's canvas. This introduction to literature litera-ture class will also help students to judge the literary merits of work. It will begin with Mathew Arnold's question ques-tion "What constitutes great literature?" and hopes to move towards "sweetness and light." Call 581-8801 to register or just come to the Bountiful High School by 7 p. m. on Tuesday or Thursday before April 6. |