Animating Poetics: Stop-Motion Video as Literary Analysis

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Can stop-motion animation be used as a form of literary analysis? How can animation enrich our critical understanding of ‘animatedness,’ a term used in literary studies to challenge the notion of the human and to excoriate gendered and racialized dehumanization? Students will perform literary analysis through conventional close readings as well as through the production of stop-motion animated videos. They will work with animation as a critical term in media theory and in literary affect studies.