BRITISH LITERATURE I (ENGL 2322)

Term: 2021-2022 Fall

Faculty

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Jacob Arnold

North Central Texas College, Room 324

1500 N Corinth St.

Corinth, TX 76208

940-498-6282, ext. 6513

 

Teaching Experience:

Instructor of English

 

Education:

MFA, Creative Writing, Queens University of Charlotte, 2012

BA, Comparative Literature (English), University of North Texas, 2008

 

 

Description

A survey of the development of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Eighteenth Century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions.

Upon successful completion, students will be able to: identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions; analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods; demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions; articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities; and write re