FYSP 117 - The Forms of Dialogue

4 HU, Wri
First Semester. An interdisciplinary study of dialogue in drama, poetry, fiction, film, philosophy, religion, political debates, interviews, and conversation—including our class discussions. Readings will be from scenes by Sophocles, Chekhov, and Pinter; fiction by Austen, Dickens, Hemingway, and Roth; films by Howard Hawks and Woody Allen; theories of dialogue by the philosophers Bakhtin and Ricoeur and the sociolinguists Goffman and Tannen.

Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 14.
Mr. Hobbs

Credits: 4 hours