| Detailed Course Description: Course
Description: The
first half of the semester will cover the aims, arts and methods of
literary research (based on James L. Harner’s Literary
Research Guide,
latest edition, which will be followed closely). The second half of
the course will cover analytical and descriptive bibliography and
textual criticism (based on W. P. Williams and Craig S. Abbott’s
An Introduction to
Bibliographical and Textual Studies,
3rd
edition). There will be an examination of the World Wide Web and
other electronic searching tools for bibliography and literary
research. |
| Course Requirements:
1. Regular attendance and
completion of all graded exercises and case studies.
2. Oral reports/presentations.
3. Class participation.
4. Final examination (final
meeting of the semester).
5. All work must be the
student’s own: do
not get library faculty to do your research!
6. No extensions.
|
| Required Texts:
Harner, J. L., Literary
Research Guide, 5th
edition, MLA, 2008.
Williams, W. P. & Abbott, C.
S., An Introduction to
Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 4th
edition, MLA, 1999. |
