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Apr 19, 2024
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ENGL023 PO - How to Really Read a Book: An IntroductionWhen Offered: Offered alternate years
Instructor(s): J. Kirk
Credit: 1
What is a book? It is a time capsule, a space probe, a spiritual instrument, a pollination device. But, if you don’t know how to operate it, it’s not going to be of any use to you; it will just lie there like an inert object. This class is an introduction to the open secret of reading. What is reading? It is spooky contemplation at a distance, telepathy by alphabetical alchemy: the transmission, across time-space, of states of awareness from mind to mind. What is mind? Mind is what is awake to reality. What is reality? That’s the question. Possible readings include works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Chogyam Trungpa, Walt Whitman, Gloria Anzaldua, Nella Larsen, Ariana Reines, Jorge Luis Borges, and Tao Lin. No prior knowledge or experience expected. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1
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