E 379R l Travel Literature Instructor: Faigley, L Unique #: 35590 Semester: Fall 2016 Cross-lists: n/a Restrictions: n/a Computer Instruction: No Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing. Description: The focus of this course will be on the reinvention of travel literature as an active and diverse genre.
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Everest, Paul Theroux’s travels in the South, and other contemporary travel accounts. You will keep a reading journal, which you will share with the class.
You'll also write a travel essay and a seminar paper organized around a central issue or question raised in three travel books. Texts: Robyn Davidson, Tracks, Vintage, 1995, ISBN 0-679-76287-6 • Andrew McCarthy, editor, The Best American Travel Writing, 2015, Houghton, 2015, ISBN: 978-0-544-56964-5 • Ryzard Kapuscinski, Travels with Herodotus, Vintage, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-7878-3 • Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, Anchor, 1998, ISBN: 0-385-492089 • Online readings. Requirements & Grading: Reading journal 35%; Travel essay 20%; Term Project 45%. This course aims to make you a better writer, a better photographer, and a better analyst of images. We will look at the issues which have preoccupied practitioners and theorists of this medium for the past century and a half, from the daguerreotypists of the 1830s and 40s through to new issues raised by today's digital photography. Expect to write short discussion-board essays in response to our readings and viewings, make a presentation about a photographer, write an essay about documentary photography, and complete an original documentary project.
The documentary project will consist of 10-15 photographs and 1500-2000 words of explanatory text. The text and photographs should present an understandable, engaging, “picture” of the subject, but the writing and the photos should each stand on their own.