S. Zagarell (English)
4 HU, WRi, 4 Hours
Fall Semester FYSP 136-01 MWF 11:00-11:50
Fall Semester FYSP 136-02 MWF 2:30-3:20
How do you see? How do you know? What do “what you see” and “what you know” have to do with one other? This seminar will take up such questions as it aims to increase your self-awareness and pleasure as readers of literature, and, to a lesser extent, of visual material. We will focus on perspectives and how they affect your sense of meaning, how conventions play out in and are unsettled by visual and written works, relationships between printed words and other media. In discussion and in writing we'll also pay attention to your own processes of seeing and knowing. Writers whose work we'll read or view include Jackie Kay, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, Art Spiegelman and L. Frank Baum. We'll watch the 1939 Wizard of Oz and Orson Wells’ F for Fake and take several trips to Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum.