1 English 4W-11: Critical Reading and Writing Adaptation Instructor: Angelina Del Balzo Email: adelbalzo@ucla.edu Mailbox location: Humanities 149, English Department main office Class Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00pm-3:50pm Class Location: Bunche 3170 Office: Humanities A94 (Desk 21) Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:00pm-6:00pm and by appointment Course Description English 4W is an introduction to literary analysis and is designed to help you develop your critical reading and writing skills. By concentrating on the genre conventions of poetry, drama, and prose, we will work through specific strategies of close reading and devote analytical attention to the writing process. One way to approach the study of literature is as a series of conversations between texts, scholars, and readers. This course seeks to understand adaptation as a method of critical engagement. By looking at source texts with their adaptations, we will consider the different ways that literature can be its own critic. We will use adaptation to ask larger questions about literature, such as: What is the relationship between translation and adaptation? In what different ways do various genres interpret the same story? How do traditionally marginalized groups engage with a canonical text and to what effect? Required Texts Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (ISBN 978014139518) Jo Baker, Longbourn (ISBN 9780345806970) Aimé Césaire, A Tempest (ISBN 9781559362108) William Shakespeare, The Tempest (ISBN 9780140714852) Natasha Trethewey, Bellocq’s Ophelia (ISBN 9781555973599) All other readings will be posted on CCLE. Limited free printing is available at the LGBT Center and the Community Programs Office in the Student Activities Center. Course Requirements Participation: 15% Presentation (10 minutes): 15% Paper 1 (3 pages): 15% Paper 2 (4 pages): 20% Paper 3 (5 pages): 25% Adaptation: 10%