ENGL 006E...001...First Year Seminar...Taylor, T...11:00-12:15...TR
Multimedia North Carolina.
In "Multimedia North Carolina," each student will author
a documentary about a current issue important to North Carolinians. For example, you may be interested in one of
the State's environmental problems or about housing for the rapidly growing
Hispanic population. Each documentary
will be published on the World Wide Web and will incorporate text, photographs,
audio, and video composed by the students.
In these documentaries, students will tell creative, well-researched,
carefully crafted, true stories about intriguing people and places in
terms of how they relate to a pressing issue.
The goals of the course are for native and non-native students
alike to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the state, to
improve their writing skills, and to conduct research with immediate,
real-world connections.
ENGL 006M...002...First Year Seminar...Avery...02:00-03:15...TR
ENGL 006M...003...First Year Seminar...Langbauer...11:00-12:15...TR
Ethics and Children's Literature. Children's literature cuts to the heart of
the reasons people really read: children turn to books to make sense of
themselves and their world. People
turn to ethics when they come across central questions of existence and
conduct they don't know how to answer.
In this class, we will attempt to learn from children, to adopt
an ethical stance toward reading from them: when I enter this book, who
am I? What kind of life is possible in it? The rules of the imaginative worlds we visit
compel us to face up to first questions: in stories in which the stones
beneath our feet can talk, what do we mean by life?
The magic that turns a baby into a pig insists that we ponder--not
just "Who am I?" but--what we mean by a self at all. We won't come up with answers to particular ethical debates--we
will look at the way that ethical problems are formed. How can children's stories help us negotiate
the difficult questions of self and other in the struggle to be human?
Texts might include: Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, Treasure Island, The Jungle Books, A Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre,
Wuthering Heights, The Wind in the Willows, the Pooh books, Perrault's,
Grimm's, and Andersen's Tales, Tolkien's The Hobbit, the Harry Potter
books, Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment, Walter Benjamin, "The
Story Teller," Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Paulo Freire, Pedogogy
of Hope, Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, Paul Hazard,
Books, Children, and Men, Herbert Kohl, The Discipline of Hope, Karl Kroeber,
Retelling/Rereading, Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan.
Teaching Method: interaction,
process, and creativity: discussion, question and answer, group work. Daily reading response journal. Weekly short papers (2 pp.), approximately
twelve in all, on a variety of topics: positions papers on controversial
questions, autobiographical meditations (for instance: "tell us a
memory in which stories seemed magical to you"), or retelling classic
tales. Final portfolio: 4 of the weekly papers and
a longer (5-10 pp) independent project, worked out with the professor
at midterm time.
ENGL 020...001...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Staff...10:00-10:50...MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I.
Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020...002...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Staff...11:00-11:50...MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I.
Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020...003...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Barbour...12:00-12:50...MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I.
Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020...004...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Leinbaugh...11:00-12:15...TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I.
Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020...005...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Wittig...12:30-01:45...TR
A survey of British literature from the beginnings to the age of
Pope and Sam Johnson. The focus
will be on narrative and lyric poetry, but we will also read some drama
and some prose. (Web Page for
Fall 2001 section is still available at: http://www.unc.edu/~jwittig/20/en20.htm) Fills requirement for majors. CLASS ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED. Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Midterm and final exam. Two
short (c. 4 page) interpretative papers.
Texts: (required) The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol.
I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871; (recommended)
William Harmon, A Handbook to Literature.
8th edition. (Prentice Hall: 2000) ISBN: 0130127310 OR M.H. Abrams,
A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th edition.
(Harcourt Brace: 1999) ISBN: 0030549825
ENGL 020...006...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Leinbaugh...02:00-03:15...TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I.
Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 021...001...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Staff...10:00-10:50...MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2.
Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021...002...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Reinert...11:00-11:50...MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2.
Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021...003...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Staff...01:00-01:50...MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2.
Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021...004...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Staff...09:30-10:45...TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2.
Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021...005...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Kirkpatrick...12:30-01:45...TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2.
Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021...006...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Staff...02:00-03:15...TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2.
Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 022...001...Literature and Cultural Diversity...Coleman...09:30-10:45...TR...
ENGL 022...002...Literature and Cultural Diversity...DeGuzman...02:00-03:15...TR
This course focuses on Afro-Latina/o US literature written in English,
that is, Anglophone works by Afro-Hispanics. The course explores how these
works create a fusion between "Latina/o" and "African-American"
cultures as well as reflect and produce a literary and cultural zone that
exists in its own right in its many manifestations in the Americas. Most
of the writers we will be studying are Afro-Latina/o as in Afro Puerto
Rican or Afro Dominican and identify themselves as such. Other writers
such as Jewelle Gomez who identifies as an African-American or Sonia Sanchez
who got her "Hispanic"-sounding last name from her marriage
to a Puerto Rican man (whose last name she decided to retain) have produced
work that nonetheless suggests or forges a strong link between African-American
culture and Latina/o cultures. Their work as well as that of self-identified
Afro-Latina/o writers compels us to recognize and theorize "Afro-Latina/o"
as more than a possible census-box identity. These stories, novels, poems,
and essays multi-dimensionalize "Afro-Latina/o" from what might
be considered "simply" hyphenated identity (although literary
and cultural critic Jennifer DeVere Brody would argue there is nothing
simple about living in the hyphen) into active identification, affiliation,
and/or cultural alliance with particular resonances in and beyond the
United States of America. In this course, we will investigate and analyze
some of these resonances. Course format is mixed lecture/discussion. Assignments
involve 2 1-2-page written responses to the readings, a group oral presentation
& active class participation, and two essays (one 8 pages and the
second 8-10 pages).
Required Reading List:
Evelio Grillo, Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir (Houston,
TX: Arte Público Press, 2000).
Jesus Colon, A Puerto Rican in New York & Other Sketches (1961;
reprint, New York: International Publishers Company, Inc., 1982).
Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets (1967; reprint, New York:
Vintage Books, 1997).
Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories: A Novel (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand
Books, 1991).
Sonia Sanchez, "Catch the Fire," and "Bullet Holes of Resistance,"
in Wounded in the House of a Friend (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995),
13?17 and 38?40. [Will be on reserve]
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, "Negrita," in Little Havana Blues,
ed. Virgil Suárez & Delia Poey (Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press,
1996), 407?419. [Will be on reserve]
Junot Díaz, Drown (New York: Riverhead Books, 1996).
Miguel Algarín, Love is Hard Work: Memories of Loisaida (New York:
Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1997).
Loida Maritza Pérez, Geographies of Home (1999; reprint, New York:
Penguin Books, 2000).
ENGL 023...001...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...09:00-09:50...MWF
ENGL 023...002...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...10:00-10:50...MWF
ENGL 023...003...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...11:00-11:50...MWF
ENGL 023...004...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...12:00-12:50...MWF
ENGL 023...005...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...01:00-01:50...MWF
ENGL 023...006...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...02:00-02:50...MWF
ENGL 023...007...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...09:30-10:45...TR
ENGL 023...008...Introduction to Fiction...Harper...11:00-12:15...TR
ENGL 023...009...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...02:00-03:15...TR
ENGL 023...010...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...03:30-04:45...TR
ENGL 023W...001...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Moose...02:00-03:15...MW
An examination of the basic techniques of fiction, with related writing
exercises involving elements such as point of view, characterization,
and dialogue. Class discussion
of student exercises and readings in short fiction.
Texts: Charters, Story & Its Writer. 5th ed. (VHPS:1999) ISBN:
0312171587; Coursepak
ENGL 023W...002...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Dessen, S...09:30-10:45...TR
An examination of the basic techniques of fiction, with related writing
exercises involving elements such as point of view, characterization,
and dialogue. Class discussion
of student exercises and readings in short fiction.
Texts: Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. 6th ed. Cassill, ed.
(Norton:2000) ISBN: 0393975088
ENGL 023W...003...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Gingher...11:00-12:15...TR
An examination of the basic techniques of fiction, with related writing
exercises involving elements such as point of view, characterization,
and dialogue. Class discussion
of student exercises and readings in short fiction.
Texts: Charters, The Story & Its Writer. 5th ed. (VHPS:1999)
ISBN: 0312171587
ENGL 024...001...Contemporary Literature...Staff...09:00-09:50...MWF
ENGL 024...002...Contemporary Literature...Staff...10:00-10:50...MWF
ENGL 024...003...Contemporary Literature...Staff...12:00-12:50...MWF
ENGL 025...001...Introduction to Poetry...Staff...09:00-09:50...MWF
ENGL 025...002...Introduction to Poetry...Staff...02:00-02:50...MWF
ENGL 025...003...Introduction to Poetry...Staff...08:00-09:15...TR
ENGL 025W...001...Introduction to Poetry Writing...Kenan Visiting
Poet...10:00-10:50...MWF
ENGL 025W...002...Introduction to Poetry Writing...Shapiro...09:30-10:45...TR
In addition to writing poems, students will examine the basic elements
of poetry, such as imagery, figurative language, sound repetition, rhythm,
and other formal aspects.
Texts: Norton Anthology of Poetry. 4th ed. Ferguson, ed. (Norton:1996)
ISBN: 0393968200; Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry. (Farrar Straus
& Giroux:1998) ISBN: 0374526176
ENGL 025W...003...Introduction to Poetry Writing...Seay...11:00-12:15...TR
In addition to writing poems, students will examine the basic elements
of poetry, such as imagery, figurative language, sound repetition, rhythm,
and other formal aspects.
Texts: Kennedy, Introduction to Poetry. 10th ed. (Prentice Hall:2002)
ISBN: 032108764
ENGL 026...001...Introduction to Drama...Staff...09:00-09:50...MWF
ENGL 026...002...Introduction to Drama...Staff...11:00-11:50...MWF
ENGL 028...001...Major American Authors...Staff...09:00-09:50...MWF
ENGL 028...002...Major American Authors...Staff...10:00-10:50...MWF
ENGL 028...003...Major American Authors...Staff...11:00-11:50...MWF
ENGL 028...004...Major American Authors...Staff...12:00-12:50...MWF
ENGL 028...005...Major American Authors...Staff...01:00-01:50...MWF
ENGL 028...006...Major American Authors...Staff...02:00-03:15...TR
ENGL 028...007...Major American Authors...Staff...03:30-04:45...TR
ENGL 029...001...Honors: Types
of Literature...Stumpf...10:00-10:50...MWF
Heroism and Vengeance: a Study in Theme and Genre (GC Aesthetic/Literature
Perspective). This course will
deal with two genres, epic and drama, and two themes, heroism and vengeance.
Texts will be Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, Milton's Paradise Lost,
Aeschylus's Oresteia, and Shakespeare's Hamlet and Coriolanus. There will
be 3-4 short papers and a final exam. First-year students only.
Texts:
Beowulf: New Verse Translation. Trans by Heaney. (FS&G: 2000) ISBN:
0374111197
Virgil, Aeneid. Mandelbaum, ed. (Princeton
UP: 1981) ISBN: 0520045505
Shakespeare, Hamlet. Farnham, ed. (Penguin: 1970) ISBN: 0140714057
Milton, Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems. (Bantam) ISBN: 0553581104
Homer, Iliad. (UCP: 1951) ISBN: 0226469409
Shakespeare, Coriolanus. Crewe, ed. (Penguin: 1999) ISBN: 0140714731
Aeschylus, Orestia. (UCP: 1953) ISBN: 0226307786
ENGL 029...002...Honors: Types
of Literature...Raper...02:00-03:15...TR
Types of Literature--Powers of the Imagination (GC Aesthetic/Literature
Perspective). Through epics and
plays, the course examines major images of ourselves and our world created
over the centuries that Western men and women have used written languages,
and explores the ways such images both support and limit our freedom.
This section focuses on the reality-constructing powers of the mind.
A mid-term, a final examination, and four or five short papers.
First-year students only.
Texts:
The Epic of Gilgamesh. Reprint ed. (Penquin: 1987) ISBN: 014044100X
Homer, The Iliad. Ttrans. Lattimore (UCP: 1987) ISBN: 0226469409
Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy. (Viking Pr: 1956) ISBN: 0140440674
Ten Greek Plays. Lind, ed. (Houghton Mifflin: 1972) ISBN: 0395051177
Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale. (Penguin: 1956) ISBN: 0140714049
Goethe, Faust. Trans. by Arndt.
(Norton: 2001) ISBN: 0393972828
O'Neill, Three Plays : Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning
Becomes Electra. Reprint ed. (Vintage: 1995) ISBN: 0679763961
Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Reprint ed. (Princeton UP: 1972)
ISBN: 0691017840
Coursepak
ENGL 029W...001...Honors: Introduction to Creative Writing...Kirkpatrick...03:30-04:45...TR
The Composition of Poetry: Of Course One Has to Think of Everything (GC Aesthetic/Literature Perspective). "What is poetry and if you know what poetry
is what is prose....One of the things that is a very interesting thing
to know is how you are feeling inside you to the words that are coming
out to be outside of you. Do you always have the same kind of feeling
in relation to the sounds as the words come out of you or do you not.
All this has so much to do with grammar and with poetry and with prose.
Words have to do everything in poetry and prose and some writers write
more in articles and prepositions and some say you should write in nouns,
and of course one has to think of everything." from "Poetry
and Grammar," Lectures in America, by Gertrude Stein. We begin by
reversing Gertrude Stein and ask, What is prose? and after reading and
writing different kinds of it, we shall read and write at least ten different
kinds of poems. No previous knowledge of versification is necessary, but
an intellectual curiosity about what words are and what they can-and cannot-do,
is required. By the end of the semester, you will have learned why moving
through unrhymed iambic pentameter is not at all like the steps of a sonnet,
and how more intricate figures of French and Italian poetic forms enable
you to speak another language in your mother tongue. The emphasis of this
course is on formal composition, on the development of a practical method
for critical analysis of language, and on multiple revisions. Toward this
end, students will participate in a closed electronic environment provided
by the encrypted Groove platform, to establish an achieve of individual
work, mutual criticism, and shared resources for the study of prose and
poetry available through the Internet. This course fulfills the Freshman
Writing Requirement, as well as counting for the same credit as the introductory
course for Creative Writing in Poetry (English 25W). Texts: David Lodge,
The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts (Penguin,
1992), Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Fourth Edition, by John
Frederick Nims and David Mason (McGraw-Hill, 2000); and War Music: An
Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad, by Christopher Logue
(Noonday Press, 1997). First-year students only.
ENGL 029W...002...Honors: Introduction to Creative Writing...Durban...09:30-10:45...TR
First-year students only. Daily
writing practice and weekly exercises lead students through exploration
of scene, voice, point of view and characterization to the completion
of a 10-15 page short story which will be discussed in class and revised.
Midterm exam. Final portfolio in lieu of final exam. Reading, discussion
and written analysis of published stories and essays on the technique
of the short story . The course is informal but stringent; students should
be prepared to write for each class meeting. Most classes are workshops
in which work is read aloud and discussed. Required texts. This course
(or English 23W) serves as the prerequisite for other fiction writing
courses in the creative writing program (Engl. 34, 35, 99).
ENGL 031...001...Advanced Composition & Rhetorical Thry...Anderson...01:00-01:50...MWF
ENGL 031E...001...Advanced Composition & Rhetorical Thry...Lindemann...03:30-04:45...TR
Prepares prospective language arts teachers with an understanding
of current research, theories, and practices for teaching writing at the
elementary level. The course explores
the nature of writing as both social practice and cognitive process, examining
the practical implications of these views for the elementary classroom. Students also receive opportunities to practice
and improve their own writing. Teaching methods: Discussion, small group, activities, individual
projects. Requirements: Weekly short assignments , midterm essay, final
project (a four-week composition unit).
Texts: Carol Avery, And with a
Light Touch. 2nd ed. (Heinemann:2002) ISBN: 0325000662
ENGL 034...001...Intermediate Fiction Writing...Simpson...09:30-10:45...TR
Permission of director of Creative Writing; prerequisite, ENGL 23W
or 29W. Extended practice in those
techniques employeed in introductory course.
Extensive writing exercises (15,000-word minimum), with emphasis
on dramatic scene. Assignments
include the writing of at least one short story.
ENGL 034...002...Intermediate Fiction Writing...Dessen, S...11:00-12:15...TR
Permission of director of Creative Writing; prerequisite, ENGL 23W
or 29W. Extended practice in those
techniques employeed in introductory course.
Extensive writing exercises (15,000-word minimum), with emphasis
on dramatic scene. Assignments
include the writing of at least one short story.
ENGL 034...003...Intermediate Fiction Writing...Gingher...03:30-04:45...TR
Permission of director of Creative Writing; prerequisite, ENGL 23W
or 29W. Extended practice in those
techniques employeed in introductory course.
Extensive writing exercises (15,000-word minimum), with emphasis
on dramatic scene. Assignments
include the writing of at least one short story.
ENGL 034P...001...Intermediate Poetry Writing...Seay...02:00-03:15...TR
Permission of director of Creative Writing; prerequisite, English
25W or 29W. A workshop in poetry
including an examination of selected contemporary poems. Weekly writing assignments.
ENGL 034P...002...Intermediate Poetry Writing...Chitwood...02:00-03:15...TR
Permission of director of Creative Writing; prerequisite, English
25W or 29W. A workshop in poetry
including an examination of selected contemporary poems.
Weekly writing assignments.
ENGL 035...001...Advanced Fiction Writing...Durban...02:00-03:15...TR
Permission of director of Creative Writing. Prerequisite, English 34. A continuation of English 34, for students
seriously interested in writing fiction.
Emphasis on the short story and the novel.
ENGL 036...001...English Grammar...Eble...10:00-10:50...MWF
An introduction to English linguistics mainly directed toward prospective
teachers. The focus will be on
traditional grammar, with some integration of structural and transformational
approaches to word formation and sentence structure. Teaching methods: Mainly lecture. Requirements: Class attendance required, frequent
short quizzes, two tests, two short papers, final examination. Much memorization and attention to detail.
Texts:
Martha Kolln and Robert Funk, Understanding English Grammar, 5th
ed. (Prentice Hall: 1998) ISBN: 0205268552
ENGL 036...002...English Grammar...Lindemann...02:00-03:15...TR
An introduction to the study of current American English, intended
primarily for prospective teachers. English
36 will introduce you to the scientific study of language and to fundamental
principles of language analysis. We
will begin by examining the sounds of English (phonology), then study
the forms and functions of words (morphology), and finally look at major
sentence patterns in English and their variations (syntax). The course combines traditionals, structural,
and generative-transformational approaches. Teaching methods: Lecture-discussion, with
some in-class group work. Requirements:
Class attendance, frequent short quizzes, two tests, two short
papers, final examination.
Texts:
Martha Kolln and Robert Funk, Understanding English Grammar, 5th
ed. (Allyn & Bacon:1998) ISBN: 0205268552
ENGL 039...001...Writing Children's Fiction...Moose...03:30-04:45...MW
Prerequisite, Introduction to Fiction or Poetry (ENGL 23W, 25W or
29W) or permission of instructor. A
course in reading and writing children's fiction, focusing on five important
forms in the genre: The Folktale, The Fairy Tale, The Picture Book, Young
Adult, and Biography.
ENGL 042...001...Movie Criticism...Harper...02:00-03:50...TR
An introduction to film criticism aimed at building a critical vocabulary
for discussing and writing about film.
Films are shown twice a week and followed by small discussion group
meetings. Teaching methods: Lecture/Discussion. Requirements: Papers and quizzes assigned by discussion leaders; midterm and final
exams.
Texts:
Course pack on individual films.
ENGL 042H...001...Movie Criticism (HONORS)...Taylor, T...12:30-01:45...TR
Advanced Multimedia Composition.
In English 42H, each student will author a documentary about a
current social issue. For example, you may be interested in health care
issues or about housing for the State's rapidly growing Hispanic population.
Each documentary will be published on the World Wide Web and will incorporate
text, photographs, audio, and video composed by the students. In these
documentaries, students will tell creative, well-researched, carefully
crafted, true stories about intriguing people and places in terms of how
they relate to a pressing issue. The course will be part seminar in which
we will study carefully a number of documentary models. The course will
also take the form of an intensive workshop in which you develop your
own compositions and respond to your classmates' work. The instructor
will provide all of the necessary equipment, except for your CCI laptop.
This course requires experience with HTML and multimedia composition and
editing. Email the instructor (twtaylor@email.unc.edu) if you have questions
about your preparation.
ENGL 043...001...The English Novel...Taylor, B...11:00-12:15...TR
In this course we'll be studying some of the classics of British
fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries.
We'll also consider how these works have been interpreted for the
late 20th century in the medium of film.
In comparing these movies to the fiction that inspired them, we'll
be assessing what our own culture continues to find meaningful in novels
written 100-200 years ago.
Texts:
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the Durbervilles
and films based on these novels
ENGL 047W...001...Stylistics: Playwriting...Avery...11:00-12:15...TR
ENGL 047W...002...Stylistics...Athas...02:00-03:15...TR
ENGL 049E...001...Studies In Literary Topics...Flora...03:30-04:45...TR
The American West in Film and Literature. Through classic films of the West (Shane, Stagecoach,
The Ox-Bow Incident, Jeremiah Johnson, McCabe and Mrs. Miller) and the
texts behind them, students will explore the birth of myths that have
helped shape the American psyche. In
these and other works, they will investigate depictions of the Native
American, the Mexican, the Chinese, of women and children.
They will have the opportunity to consider the emergence of Buffalo
Bill and John Wayne as national icons, and the reasons that pronouncements
of the death of the Western always prove premature.
ENGL 052...001...Chaucer...Wittig...09:30-10:45...TR
In this course we will read a representative cross-section of Chaucer's
most important poetry: Troilus and Criseyde, The Parliament of Fowels,
and much of The Canterbury Tales. We
will read these works in the original Middle English (and students will
be expected to give this their best shot). But the emphasis will be "literary," not linguistic, concentrating
on what Chaucer has to say and on understanding him in his historical,
intellectual and literary context. Class
attendance is expected. Teaching
methods: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Midterm and final
exam; weekly modernization quizzes; one term paper (6-8 pages). For Fall 2001 syllabus, see: http://www.unc.edu/~jwittig/52/en52.htm
Texts:
The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd
ed. (Houghton Mifflin: 1987) ISBN: 0395290317
Chaucer Glossary, Norman Davis, ed.
(Oxford UP: 1979) ISBN: 0198111711
ENGL 052...002...Chaucer...Kennedy...12:30-01:45...TR
The study of Chaucer's major poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parlement of Foules, Troilus and Criseyde,
The Canterbury Tales. Teaching
methods: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Two announced translation quizzes, mid-term
exam, short critical paper, final exam.
Texts: The Riverside Chaucer,
ed. Larry D. Benson. 3rd ed. (Houghton Mifflin:1987) ISBN: 0395290317
ENGL 054...001...Sixteenth-Century English Literature...Mary Floyd-Wilson...12:30-1:45...TR
ENGL 058...001...Shakespeare...Kendall...09:00-09:50...MWF
A study of representative histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances.
Our aim will be to develop strategies for close readings that pay
attention to generic expectation, language, and the physical properties
of the stage; at the same time, we will seek to read Shakespeare culturally,
to recognize the ways these texts participate in their historical moment
and in the debates over social ordering, gender, political authority,
economic change, religious controversy, and encounters with foreign cultures
and practices. We will praise Shakespeare without etherealizing him and explore
his limitations without demeaning his achievement. Teaching methods: We will
mix dialogue with soliloquy, meaning you will be encouraged to be garrulous
and I will be discouraged from being too much so.
Requirements: Frequent
quizzes to keep you honest, a reading notebook to keep you thinking, two
short papers to keep you writing, and a final examination to keep you
guessing.
Texts:
The Riverside Shakespeare. Evans et al, ed.
(Houghton Mifflin: 1997) ISBN: 0395754909
The Riverside Shakespeare is the text of choice, but you may substitute
any other reputable anthology or single play editions
ENGL 058...002...Shakespeare...Armitage...10:00-10:50...MWF
The agenda is the study of ten to twelve of Shakespeare's comedies,
histories, tragedies, and romances. A
quiz occurs when each play is first taken up in class; a mid-term test
and a cumulative final exam are also required.
Informed discussion by students is encouraged. Attendance at a production by the N.C. Shakespeare Festival in High
Point is required, the play and date TBA.
Texts:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed., ed. David Bevington.
(Addison-Wesley: 1997) ISBN: 0321012542
ENGL 058...003...Shakespeare...Mary Floyd-Wilson...09:30-10:45...TR
ENGL 058...004...Shakespeare...Matchinske...09:30-10:45...TR
ENGL 058...005...Shakespeare...Matchinske...12:30-01:45...TR
ENGL 058...006...Shakespeare...Goldberg...2:00-2:50...MWF
Texts: Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Harbage, ed. (Penguin:1969)
ISBN: 0140714499; Coursepak
ENGL 060...001...Seventeenth-Century English Literature...Barbour...10:00-10:50...MWF
ENGL 063...001...Literary Aspects of the Bible...Stumpf...12:00-12:50...MWF
ENGL 066...001...Prose & Poetry of the Classical Period...Reinert...01:00-01:50...MWF
ENGL 072...001...The Chief Romantic Poets...Viscomi...02:00-03:15...TR
Introduction to Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, Byron,
Keats, and a few essayists, and to main features of the Romantic Period
of England. Concentration will
be on close reading of particular poems.
Some basic knowledge of 18th and/or 19th century British history
and literature will be assumed (i.e., English majors should have taken
English 21). Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Two papers, five pages or more, with secondary sources; quizzes, midterm,
and final exam
Texts:
English Romantic Writers, 2nd edition. Ed., David Perkins. (Harcourt
Brace: 1995) ISBN: 0155016881
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed., Maurice Hindle (Penguin: 1992)
ISBN: 0140433627
Trimmer, Guide to MLA Documentation. 5th edition. (Houghton Mifflin:
1999) ISBN: 0395938511
ENGL 072...002...The Chief Romantic Poets...Viscomi...03:30-04:45...TR
Introduction to Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, Byron,
Keats, and a few essayists, and to main features of the Romantic Period
in England. Concentration will
be on close reading of particular poems.
Some basic knowledge of 18th and/or 19th century British history
and literature will be assumed (i.e., English majors should have taken
English 21). Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Two papers, five pages or more, with secondary sources; quizzes,
midterm, and final exam.
Texts:
English Romantic Writers, 2nd edition. Ed., David Perkins. (Harcourt
Brace: 1995) ISBN: 0155016881
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed., Maurice Hindle (Penguin: 1992)
ISBN: 0140433627
Trimmer, Guide to MLA Documentation. 5th edition. (Houghton Mifflin:
1999) ISBN: 0395938511
ENGL 072...003...The Chief Romantic Poets...Moskal...09:30-10:45...TR
A survey of British literature from 1780 to 1830, including Blake,
Wordsworth, Byron, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, along with some of their
less famous contemporaries. We
will pay particular attention to the politics of the day, including the
French Revolution and the abolition of the British slave trade, and to
the importance of travel and the authors' uses of literary forms of the
travelogue. Please contact the instructor if you would
like further information (jmoskal@email.unc.edu). Teaching methods: Lecture,
discussions, and group work. Requirements:
2 exams, 2 essays, one an imitation of a Romantic-period work;
the other, a critical analysis. Active
daily participation is expected.
Texts:
Mellor & Matlak, eds., British Literature, 1780-1830
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. MacDonald & Scherf, eds. (Broadview:
1997)
ENGL 073...001...English Literature, 1832-1890...Life...11:00-11:50...MWF
A detailed critical examination of poetry and prose by Dickens, Tennyson,
Browning, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and other major authors of the period.
Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Two essays written in class; one term paper;
final exam.
Texts:
Houghton and Stange, Victorian Poetry and Poetics. 2nd ed. (Houghton
Mifflin: 1968) ISBN: 0395046467
Charles Dickens, Bleak House.
(Norton: 1977) ISBN: 0393093328
ENGL 078...001...English Literature, 1870-1910...Life...02:00-02:50...MWF
Through the detailed examination of works representative of this
period, we will consider how literature illuminated the issues and events
of a rapidly changing world. In
the process, we will see how the naturalism exemplified by Zola in France
was combined in England with the more aesthetic aspects of such authors
as Swinburne. Teaching Methods: Lectures and discussion. Requirements:
Midterm; one term paper; final exam.
Texts:
Cecil Y. Lang, ed., The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle. 2nd ed. (UCP:1975) ISBN: 0226468666
Emile Zola, Therese Raquin. (Penguin:1962)
ISBN: 0140441204
Aldington, ed., The Portable Oscar Wilde. (Penguin:1981) ISBN:
0140150935
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. (Norton:1991) ISBN: 0393959031
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent. (Penguin:1984) ISBN: 0140180966
ENGL 081B...001...American Lit from 1865 to 1930...King...09:00-09:50...MW
Representative authors from the end of the Civil War to 1930. This will be a large lecture section of the
course with two lectures per week plus one recitation section (22 students
per section) led by carefully chosen Teaching Assistants. Teaching methods: Lecture
and discussion. Requirements: TBA
Texts: Anthology of American
Literature, Volume II: Realism to the Present.
7th edition. McMichael
(ed.) (Prentice Hall:1999) ISBN:
0130838152
ENGL 082...001...American Literature from 1930 to present...Carlston...11:00-12:15...TR
This course will examine some of the major factors and influences
that shaped U.S. American literature, especially though not exclusively
prose fiction, in the twentieth century. We will focus in particular on
questions about national identity-what is the U.S.? What does it mean
to be American?--and its relation to class, race, sexuality, ethnicity,
gender, and regional identities. Required texts may include works by James
Baldwin, Don DeLillo, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, Tony Kushner, Flannery
O'Connor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Alfredo
Véa, Dorothy West, and/or Anzia Yezierska. There will also be several
required film screenings (normally on
Monday evenings) and regular short writing assignments. No pre-requisites.
ENGL 082...003...American Literature from 1930 to present...Greene...12:30-01:45...TR
ENGL 082H...001...American Literature from 1930 to present...Carlston...02:00-03:15...TR
U.S. American Literature and Culture from Henry James to the Present.
This course will examine some of the major factors and influences
that shaped U.S. American literature, especially though not exclusively
prose fiction, in the twentieth century. We will focus in particular on
questions about national identity-what is the U.S.?
What does it mean to be American?--and its relation to class, race,
sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and regional identities. Required texts
may include works by James Baldwin, Don DeLillo, Henry James, Jack Kerouac,
Tony Kushner, Alfredo Véa, Dorothy West and/or Anzia Yezierska. There
will also be several required film screenings (normally on Monday evenings),
short critical readings on the assigned authors, and regular short writing
assignments. Students should anticipate a heavy reading load. No prerequisites.
ENGL 083...001...The American Novel...Rust...11:00-11:50...MWF
This is a survey of the American novel from the beginnings to World
War II, with close attention to eleven classical novels. Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Two 600-900 word papers; forum participation; midterm and final
exams.
Texts:
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Houghton-Mifflin) ISBN: 0395051428
Melville, Moby-Dick (Bobbs-Merrill)
ISBN: 0023367202
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U of Calif. P) ISBN: 052055209
James, The American (Houghton-Mifflin)
ISBN: 0395051630
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage and Other Writings (H-M) ISBN:
0395051436
Cather, O Pioneers! (Sentry) ISBN:
0395083656
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Scribners)
ISBN: 0684801523
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Scribners) ISBN: 0684800713
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage)
ISBN: 0679732187
Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs. (Dover) ISBN: 0486281965
Wharton, The House of Mirth (Signet) ISBN: 0451527569
ENGL 083...002...The American Novel...Wagner-Martin...11:00-12:15...TR
A survey of the American novel and short story, covering the last
150 years. Starting with Melville
and Hawthorne, the class goes to Morrison and Alexie. By using the Heath anthology, we will be able to read more than
25 authors. Teaching methods: Class operates on mini-lectures and discussion. Requirements: Midterm and final exams; two 6-10 page papers. Quizzes.
Texts:
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2, 4th Ed. (Houghton
Mifflin: 2002) ISBN: 061810920x
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury. (Viking:1990) ISBN: 0679732241
Toni Morrison, Beloved. (Plume) ISBN: 0452264464
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. (Vintage: 1995) ISBN: 0679732764
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried. (Broadway) ISBN: 076790289
Jack Kerouac, On the Road. (Penguin: 1991) ISBN: 0140042598
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden.
(Scribner's:1987) ISBN: 0684804522
4 Classic American Novels. (Signet:1969) ISBN: 0451527711
ENGL 083...003...The American Novel...Gura...12:00-12:50...MWF
Beginning with one of the earliest American novels, Charles Brockden
Brown's Wieland (1798), we will move from the late eighteenth century
to the early twentieth, ending with William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
(1930). Along the way we will
read one of the nineteenth century's best-selling works, Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), as well as one of its dismal
"failures," Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).
Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about the Brook Farm Utopia, The
Blithedale Romance (1852), Harold Frederic's scathing portrait of
a fallen minister, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896), Kate Chopin's
psychologically probing investigation of a woman's The Awakening
(1899) and William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance, an early treatment
of divorce, round out our ambitious semester. We will pay much attention to the historical
context of each of these novels, and we will try to discern in particular
the assumptions about audience made by each author. Teaching methods: Lecture
and discussion. Requirements: ATTENDANCE REQUIRED. Two papers (4-6, 8-10pp.), a mid-term, and
a final, with occasional quizzes as well to make sure students keep up
with the reading.
Texts:
Cather, Professor's House. (Random:1953) ISBN: 0679731806
Chopin, Awakening & Selected Stories. (Penguin:1984)
ISBN: 0140390227
Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance. (Penguin:1983) ISBN: 0140390286
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Bantam:1981) ISBN: 0553212184
Melville, Moby Dick. (Penguin:1992) ISBN: 0140390847
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. (Random:1985) ISBN: 067973225x
Brown, Wieland & Memoirs of Carwin Biloquist. (Penguin:1991)
ISBN: 0140390790
Frederic, Damnation of Theron Ware. (Penguin:1986) ISBN: 0140390251
Howells, Modern Instance. (Penguin:1984) ISBN: 0140390278
ENGL 084...001...African American Literature to 1950...Henderson...09:30-10:45...TR
ENGL 085...001...African American Lit from 1950 to present...Greene...09:30-10:45...TR
ENGL 085...002...African American Lit from 1950 to present...Coleman...12:30-01:45...TR
ENGL 088...001...Southern American Literature...Flora...09:30-10:45...TR
Looking at representative fiction, poetry, drama, and essays, this
course will explore the literature of the American South, with emphasis
on the twentieth century. Teaching
Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Two hour examinations, two short papers, final examination.
Texts:
The South in Perspective. (Prentice Hall) ISBN: 0130114901
Bobbie Ann Mason, Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail. (Random) ISBN:
0679449248
Ferrol Sams, Run with the Horseman. (Penguin) ISBN: 0140072748
ENGL 090...001...Intro to Literary Criticism...McGowan...12:00-12:50...MWF
This course will be divided into two halves. The first half will cover classics in the history
of literary criticism: Aristotle, Plato, Longinus, Burke, Dante, Dryden,
Wordsworth, Arnold, and Pater. The
second half will look at some of the more recent twentieth-century work
in literary theory, especially Bakhtin, Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Judith
Butler, and Michel Foucault. We
will also read a Shakespeare play and a Philip Roth novel and think about
how our readings in criticism influence how we might interpret literary
works. Teaching methods: Mix of discussion and lecture.
Requirements: A web forum;
biweekly response papers; three 5-8 page papers; and a final exam.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, edited by Vince B. Leitch
et. al. ISBN 0-393-97429-4 (Norton,
2001).
Shakespeare, As You Like It. (Wash Square Pr: 1997) ISBN: 0671722565
Philip Roth, The Counterlife. (Vintage: 1996) ISBN: 0679749047
ENGL 090c...001...Literature, Race, & Ethnicity...Henderson...12:30-01:45...TR
ENGL 092c...001...After Empire: Postcolonial Literatures from Africa,
the Caribbean and South Asia...Varma...11:00-11:50...MWF
Texts: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Knopf, ISBN: 039451470X)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood (P. Dutton, ISBN: 0140153519)
Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters (Heinemann, ISBN: )
Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven (Plume, ISBN: 0452275695)
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (Plume, ISBN: 0452266777)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Harper, ISBN: 0060977493)
ENGL 093...001...20th Century British & American Poetry...Lensing...08:00-09:15...TR
An introduction to major British and American poets of the twentieth
century. The course emphasizes
the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and T.S Eliot but
also includes work by Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Wilfred Owen,
W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell,
Adrienne Rich, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and others. Teaching Methods: The course will combine lectures
and class discussion. Requirements:
There will be two short papers, a mid-semester and
final exam.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd ed., Ellmann, ed. (Norton) ISBN: 0393956369
ENGL 093...002...20th Century British & American Poetry...Harmon...11:00-12:15...TR
Plodding scrutiny of hundreds of complex poems from 1860 to the present,
half British (or Irish), half American. Much more technical detail--grammar, rhetoric, prosody--than comfort
warrants. Teaching Methods:
Monologous discussion.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 2nd ed., Ellmann, ed. (Norton) ISBN: 0393956369
Frost, Selected Poems. (Harcourt
Brace) ISBN: 0030120608
Eliot, Four Quartets. (Harcourt
Brace) ISBN: 0156332256
ENGL 095...001...20th Century British & American Drama...King...11:00-11:50...MWF
A comprehensive survey of major British and American playwrights
with brief background reading in influential continental influences. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Midterm, final, and short term paper.
Texts:
Gilbert, Modern & Contemporary Drama. (VHPS: 1994) ISBN: 0312090773
ENGL 099a...001...Honors In Creative Writing...Simpson...02:00-03:15...TR
Prerequisite, ENGL 35, 35P. The
first of a two-semester sequence, three hours credit per semester.
Permission of director of Creative Writing.
Students must have demonstrated a high level of intellectual accomplishment
and creative ability. Submission
of a substantial body of achieved work in prose, poetry, or both. Admission based on a sample manuscript submitted to director of
Creative Writing Program for evaluation by a committee.
ENGL 099a...002...Honors In Creative Writing...Shapiro...12:30-01:45...TR
Prerequisite, ENGL 35, 35P. The
first of a two-semester sequence, three hours credit per semester.
Permission of director of Creative Writing.
Students must have demonstrated a high level of intellectual accomplishment
and creative ability. Submission
of a substantial body of achieved work in prose, poetry, or both. Admission based on a sample manuscript submitted to director of
Creative Writing Program for evaluation by a committee.