Introduction to Literary Study: Crumbs and Mirrors (1). In this course, we’ll read literary adaptations of fairy tales and folk tales which focus on identity and agency. As one of our authors, Angela Carter, writes: “I really do believe that a fiction absolutely self-conscious of itself as a different form of human experience than reality (that is, not a logbook of events) can help to transform reality itself.” Throughout the semester, we’ll develop and put into practice the critical skills of close reading, interpretation, and analysis in order to consider how writers recast these well-known tales—and to what ends.(5T) May be taken for credit only once. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 190. English majors should register for English 190.) Offered each semester.