ENG 4420 Twentieth-Century British Literature

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first day class slides

Pictures of the artworks referenced in “Musee des Beaux Arts”


I recommend you read on paper and will have printable or hard copies available for everything I assign. Here are a couple recent articles discussing the fact that, while people reading on screens are able to comprehend at similar levels to those reading on paper, metacognition, the sort of deeper-level thinking required for literary analysis, might be compromised. That said, I read these articles on a computer!

  1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/
  2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/screen-reading-can-wreck-your-attention-heres-how-to-save-it/2020/01/26/2cd94d70-387c-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html