EN 887.01 Introduction to Advanced Research (Spring 2009-2010: 3)
This course will acquaint you with the essential resources to carry out
the central tasks of literary scholarship. Bibliography (broadly defined
as the investigation of the production, dissemination, collection, location,
and identification of literary artifacts) is indispensable to scholarship
and criticism of all kinds, just as a critical sensibility guides our choice
of what books to look for. You will be guided through the reference works
and databases available in the Boston College library and others, discuss
the goals, purposes, and future of the field of literary studies, and produce
an original project based on archival sources.
Robert Stanton
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