Techniques for Textual Analysis and Close Reading

I will use the literary reading skills with text criticism, new historism, and close reading. This is a course of literature, but we use history as a way to evaluate and synchronize cultural and textual events, but this is not a historical study course. The overall goal of ENGL 242 is to provide students with critical reading, reaction, analysis, and hope to enjoy various literary skills. Literature we may read: Kedemon's hymn, Belde's death song, Gilda about ruins and conquests of England, ruins, wanderers, seafarers, husband's messages, wife's grief, Maxim II, Seoul, and Body I, ridiculous (choice); Felix's Goose Luck's life (choice), Cynewulf and Cyneheard, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (selected); dream dream; Winchester's Wulfstan, Aethelwold's life, Beowulf, Maldon's Campaign Canterbury Story Selection), Sir Gwen and Green Knight, others

Based on detailed text analysis, we need to learn concrete reading ability and technique to write a paper. But, whether you are going to write a paper or not, you should train yourself to use these skills to read literature texts. Learning to become a "smart" reader not only makes you a more analytical person when writing a paper but also helps to improve the writing skills of exams. The way to think and think of this literature does not really depend on any particular literary theory. Of course, when teaching and analyzing text, you can see that many professors work on a specific theory - some feminists, Marxists, post colonialists, and others use cultural studies. And most of them expect or encourage you to think of literary works in an appropriate historical or political context.