Fall 2003 English Department Course Descriptions

ENGL 006E.001 (First Year Seminar: Multimedia North Carolina)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Todd Taylor
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 006E.002 (First Year Seminar: English: The International Language)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
Professor Connie Eble
This class will explore the expanding of English as the universal language. Students will be guided in thinking both about the problems and the advantages of linguistic diversity and about the desirability of an international language by means of a variety of activities: 1) by reading and discussing published commentaries both by language scholars and by people who have chosen to learn English as a second language; 2) by viewing and discussing portions of the film series The Story of English; 3) by conducting interviews with non-native speakers of English; 4) by working in groups on a class project to discover through examining newspapers the functions of English outside the US, Canada, and the British Isles; 5) by reading about how one community of English speakers uses its local dialect of the international language to preserve local identity (Ocracoke, North Carolina). Requirements: Class attendance is mandatory.
Texts:
Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Walt Wolfram (UNC Press, 1997) ISBN: 0807846260
Course pack of additional readings

ENGL 006M.001 (First Year Seminar: William Butler Yeats and Irish Independence)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Professor John McGowan
This course focuses on the poetry and plays of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), one of Ireland's greatest writers. Yeats was deeply involved in Irish politics during the time when Ireland fought for and won its independence from Great Britain. We will read Yeats's work, but students will also engage in group research projects on the historical and social background to Yeats's writings. The course requires students to keep a reading journal, to write three short essays, and participate in a major collaborative research project with three other students.
Texts:
Modern Irish Drama, John P. Harrington, ed. (Norton:1991) ISBN: 0393960633
Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose, James Pethica, ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 0393974979
Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, R. F. Foster. (Penguin:1990) ISBN: 0140132503

ENGL 006M.003 (First Year Seminar: Studies in African-American Drama)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Laurence Avery
Our mutual goals in this course are to learn as much as we can about the experience of African Americans as depicted in the American theater, about the artists who have depicted it, and about the techniques for reading and interpreting plays. Our works will cover almost a century, from the time of World War I up to the present, and will include a few works from other developing theaters (for instance, the Irish) for purposes of comparison. Organized as a seminar, the course will feature open discussion, student reports, and enactment of scenes. In addition to reading and discussing the plays, we will do staged readings of scenes to get a feel for the dynamics of the theater, talk with actors and directors in the Department of Dramatic Art about the work of professional theater people, avail ourselves of the expertise of African-American scholars on campus and in the area, and generally be alert for opportunities during the semester to broaden our sense of the plays in their cultural context. The course grade will depend one-third on examinations (mid-term and final), one-third on papers or formal presentations (two or three during the semester), and one-third on participation in class discussions and activities.
Texts:
Wilson, Piano Lesson. (Penguin:1990) ISBN: 0452265347
Wilson, Fences. (Penguin:1986) ISBN: 0452264014
Wilson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. (Plume:1988) ISBN: 0452260094
Wilson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. (Penguin:1985) ISBN: 0452261139
Wilson, Two Trains Running. (Penguin:1992) ISBN: 0452269296
Wilson, Seven Guitars. (Penguin:2000) ISBN: 0452276926

ENGL 006M.004 (First Year Seminar: Travel Literature)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Jeanne Moskal
Willa Cather wrote that there are only two or three human stories that go on fiercely repeating themselves. In this course we examine some influential British, North American, and Continental literature of one of those repeating human stories: the journey. The course has three units: an introduction to the methodology and pertinent questions to ask of travel literature, a survey of the sub-genres within travel literature (the voyage, the interior exploration, the tour, the pilgrimage, the mission), and a focused analysis of one of those sub-genres, the tour. A recurring theme in the course is the State of North Carolina as a destination for travelers, marked by the writings of naturalist William Bartram, of Catholic missionary Fr. Thomas Price, and of short-term tourist V.S. Naipaul.
Our mutual goals in this course are: 1) to understand how travel and travel writing can engage received notions of gender, sexuality, religion, and national identity; 2) to raise questions about the role travel literature has played in war, colonization, and international commerce; 3) to learn the literary conventions that organize various kinds of travel literature by analyzing and imitating the classic authors 4) to implement active-learning strategies for representing travel by short class trips with travel writing assignments about those trips. to measure the impact of travel literature on novels, poetry, drama, opera, and film. Teaching methods: Lecture, discussion, and two short field trips. Assignments: 20%: Weekly papers, one page long, responding to the readings; 20%: Five-page paper: one page written in imitation of the style of an assigned writer, four pages describing your authorial choices. 20%: Five-page paper: an account of your own travels 20%: Five-page paper: analysis of an issue in assigned travel writing 20%: Final examination. Fulfills Aesthetic Perspective (Literature). Fulfills Cultural Diversity requirement.

ENGL 020.001 (British Literature: Chaucer to Pope)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Professor Thomas Stumpf
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose.
Text:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871

ENGL 020.002 (British Literature: Chaucer to Pope)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Jessica Wolfe
The first half of this introductory course for English majors and other interested students surveys major works of English poetry and prose from the high Middle Ages to the middle of the Eighteenth Century. Emphasis will be on the transformation of literary genres (lyric, epic, romance, the essay); evolving notions of authorship, poetic inspiration, and imitation; and the development of religious, political, and philosophical thought as manifested in literary works. Texts studied will include (complete or in excerpt): Geoffrrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene; the seventeenth-century poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell; John Milton, Paradise Lost and other poems; prose by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, Milton, and Jonathan Swift. Assignments: 3 short papers; 1 or 2 longer papers; final examination. Class time will be divided between lecture and directed conversation.
Text:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871

ENGL 020.003 (British Literature: Chaucer to Pope)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Kathryn Wymer
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose.
Text:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871

ENGL 020.004 (British Literature: Chaucer to Pope)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Brian Butler
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose.
Text:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871

ENGL 020.005 (British Literature: Chaucer to Pope)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Joseph Wittig
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 2002 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)
TR, 03:30-04:45
John Adrian
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose.
Text:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871

ENGL 020.007 (British Literature: Chaucer to Pope)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
Amanda Bailey
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose.
Text:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871

ENGL 021.002 (British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
David Ross
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Periods. Poetry, prose, and plays.
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)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
David Ross
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Periods. Poetry, prose, and plays.
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)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Jenny Christley
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Periods. Poetry, prose, and plays.
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)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Thomas Reinert
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Periods. Poetry, prose, and plays.
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)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Devon Fisher
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Periods. Poetry, prose, and plays.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
Collins, Miss or Mrs.?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River (Oxford UP: 1999) ISBN: 0192833073
Dickens, Oliver Twist. (Norton:1993) ISBN: 039396292X

ENGL 021.007 (British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Laurence Avery
This course is a foundation course for the study of literature with a focus on British literature from the early 19th century into the 20th. Teaching Methods: Some lecture; mostly class discussion and student reports. Requirements: Mid-term and final exams; two term papers of about five pages each.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
Eliot, Middlemarch. Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. 2000. ISBN: 0-393-97452-9
Shaw, Pygmalian and Major Barbara. Bantam Classic. 1992. ISBN: 055321408X

ENGL 022.001 (Literature and Cultural Diversity)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Margaret O’Shaughnessey
Studies in African American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, Anglo-Indian, Caribbean, Gay-Lesbian, and other literatures written in English. Freshman, sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors.

ENGL 022.002 (Literature and Cultural Diversity)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Wendy Weber
Studies in African American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, Anglo-Indian, Caribbean, Gay-Lesbian, and other literatures written in English. Freshman, sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors.

ENGL 022.003 (Literature and Cultural Diversity)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
Kathleen Flanagan
Studies in African American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, Anglo-Indian, Caribbean, Gay-Lesbian, and other literatures written in English. Freshman, sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors.

ENGL 023.001 (Introduction to Fiction)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Professor Nicholas Allen
Introduction to fiction charts the development of prose forms from the nineteenth century to the present, reading work from Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe, to discover how the genres of novel and short story have expressed each writer's individual experience in society. Considering colonialism, gender, memory and modernity, this course will introduce you to a broad range of major texts from across cultures in order to highlight fiction's various, and continuing, possibilities.
Texts:
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. (Anchor:1994) ISBN: 0385474547
Peter Carey , True History of the Kelly Gang (Vintage:2001) ISBN: 0375724672
Ciaran Carson, Fishing for Amber (Granta:2000) ISBN: 1862073716
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Avon:1994) ISBN: 0380002450
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Dover:1991) ISBN: 0486264645
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin:2003) ISBN: 0141439564
Fyodor Dostoyevski, Notes from the Underground (Dover:1992) ISBN: 048627053x
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Scribner:1995) ISBN: 0684801523
Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Signet:1990) ISBN: 0451524950
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, In a Glass Darkly (Oxford UP:1999) ISBN: 0192839470
Edgar Alan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin:1991) ISBN: 0140432914
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Penguin:1995) ISBN: 0140132708
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Knopf: 2001) ISBN: 0375703861
Graham Swift , Last Orders (Vintage: 1997) ISBN: 0679766626

ENGL 023.002 (Introduction to Fiction)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Pat Kennedy
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023.003 (Introduction to Fiction)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Melissa Bostrom
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023.004 (Introduction to Fiction)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
Pat Kennedy
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023.005 (Introduction to Fiction)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Jessica Harper
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023.006 (Introduction to Fiction)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
Austin Fairfield
Fiction, Autonomy, and the Past. Lawrence Durrell has noted that "somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might surprise if we are attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough." In this course, we will practice reading attentively, lovingly, and patiently in order to see how fictional works can help us re-imagine history through their retelling of past experiences. Course requirements will include a mid-term and a final exam; numerous short, informal writing assignments; and a 1500-2000 word final paper. Most class time will be devoted to guided conversation. This course fulfills the aesthetic perspective requirement.
Texts:
Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry (Penguin: 2000) ISBN: 0140296131
Lawrence Durrell, Justine (Viking: 1991) ISBN: 0140153195
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (Vintage: 1995) ISBN: 0679732764
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (Norton: 1994) ISBN: 0393964817
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (HarperCollins: 1998) ISBN: 0060977493
Graham Swift, Waterland (Vintage: 1992) ISBN: 0679739793

ENGL 023.007 (Introduction to Fiction)
TR, 08:00-09:15
Gena Diamant
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023.008 (Introduction to Fiction)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Professor James Thompson
This class is an introduction to fiction based largely in short stories; we examine 4 stories a week, looking at the widest possible variety in form and content. The class culminates with two contrasting novels-Jane Eyre & The Wide Sargasso Sea. Teaching Methods: Discussion with the occasional lecture. Requirements: 2 papers, midterm, final and daily writing.
Texts:
Fictions, ed. Trimmer & Jennings. 4th Ed. (Harcourt Brace:1998) ISBN: 0155039679
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. (Penguin:1996) ISBN: 0140434003
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea. (Norton:1966) ISBN: 0393308804

ENGL 023.009 (Introduction to Fiction: The American Short Story)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor William Andrews
This course will survey major writers and developments in the American short story from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the 1990s, The structure of the course will be historical. Emphasis will be on analysis of form and theme in particular stories. Interpretation of the stories will reflect both the perspectives and purposes of individual authors and the influence of literary modes and genres, cultural trends, and sociopolitical forces during the times in which the stories were published. Teaching Methods: The course will offer a mix of lecture and discussion, but the premium will be on discussion. Requirements: Occasional unannounced spot quizzes, two analytical and/or critical papers, the first approximately 1000 words long, the second 1500-2000 words. One optional analytical and/or critical paper approximately 1000 words ling. A mid-term and a final examination.
Texts: James H. Pickering, ed., Fiction 100. 9th ed. (Prentice Hall:2000) ISBN: 0130143286

ENGL 023.010 (Introduction to Fiction)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Gena Diamant
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023.012 (Introduction to Fiction)
TR, 08:00-09:15
Andrew Leiter
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.

ENGL 023W.001 (Introduction to Fiction Writing)
MW, 09:30-10:45
Virginia Holman
English 23W or 29W is prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A close study of 100 short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises in fiction.

ENGL 023W.002 (Introduction to Fiction Writing)
MW, 02:00-03:15
Ruth Moose
English 23W or 29W is prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A close study of 100 short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises in fiction.

ENGL 023W.003 (Introduction to Fiction Writing)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Amy Weldon
English 23W or 29W is prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A close study of 100 short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises in fiction.

ENGL 023W.004 (Introduction to Fiction Writing)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Lawrence Naumoff
English 23W or 29W is prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A close study of 100 short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises in fiction.

ENGL 023W.005 (Introduction to Fiction Writing)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Marianne Gingher
English 23W or 29W is prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A close study of 100 short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises in fiction.

ENGL 024.001 (Contemporary Literature)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Elyse Crystall
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.

ENGL 024.002 (Contemporary Literature)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
Elyse Crystall
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.

ENGL 024.003 (Contemporary Literature)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Alex McAulay
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.

ENGL 024.004 (Contemporary Literature)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Laura Eldred
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.

ENGL 025.001 (Introduction to Poetry)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Christopher Hill
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A course designed to develop basic skills in reading poems from all periods of English and American literature.

ENGL 025.002 (Introduction to Poetry)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Eliza Laskowski
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A course designed to develop basic skills in reading poems from all periods of English and American literature.

ENGL 025.003 (Introduction to Poetry)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Jennifer Bolton
In the Defence of Poesie (1595), Sir Philip Sidney uses the metaphor of the "speaking picture" to define the poet's craft. Sidney's phrase, which suggests that poetry engages its audience through both sight and sound, reminds us that what we hear often clarifies and sometimes complicates what we see, physically or imaginatively. This course will therefore emphasize the importance of poetic forms, necessitating close attention to meter, rhythm, and other technical features. The readings for the course will constitute a historical survey of British and American poetry, allowing us to trace continuities in as well as departures from traditional forms and styles. METHODS: Lecture and discussion. REQUIREMENTS: Midterm exam, final exam, 4 essays of at least 4 pages each, and recitation of 25 lines of poetry.
TEXTS:
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th ed. (required)
A Handbook to Literature, 9th ed. (recommended)

ENGL 025W.001 (Introduction to Poetry Writing)
TR, 09:30:10:45
Professor Alan Shapiro
Prerequisite to English 34P and further work in writing poetry. Study of narrative, dramatic, and lyric poems as aesthetic processes and objects. Principles of analysis and criticism are applied by students in discussions, reports, papers, and poems of their own.

ENGL 025W.002 (Introduction to Poetry Writing)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Michael McFee
Prerequisite to English 34P and further work in writing poetry. Study of narrative, dramatic, and lyric poems as aesthetic processes and objects. Principles of analysis and criticism are applied by students in discussions, reports, papers, and poems of their own.

ENGL 025W.003 (Introduction to Poetry Writing)
MW, 11:00-12:15
Tara Powell
Prerequisite to English 34P and further work in writing poetry. Study of narrative, dramatic, and lyric poems as aesthetic processes and objects. Principles of analysis and criticism are applied by students in discussions, reports, papers, and poems of their own.

ENGL 026.001 (Introduction to Drama)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Nora Corrigan
English 26 is a historical survey of drama focusing on the classical Greek, English Renaissance, and modern periods. Classes will be discussion-based and largely student-led, so specific topics of discussion are up for grabs, but the course will center around the following broad questions:
– Why do people write, perform, and watch plays? How do the purposes and uses of drama change over the centuries?
– What are some of the choices that modern-day directors, performers, translators, and teachers confront when they approach plays written in a very different social and political context? How important is it to make older texts “relevant” to a modern audience? What makes an adaptation or translation successful or unsuccessful, and why? Requirements: Class participation; three papers; final exam; one group project.
Texts
Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Ted Hughes trans.)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Matt Neuberg trans.)
Aristophanes and Plautus, The Birds and The Brothers Menaechmus (Peter Arnott trans.)
Shakespeare, Othello
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Dover)
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
Ionesco, Rhinoceros (Derek Prouse trans.)
Kaufman, The Laramie Project.
If I haven’t specified an edition or translation, feel free to use any edition of the play, although I’ve placed the cheapest available texts on order. This means the Dover in most cases; if you find Shakespeare’s and Webster’s language difficult, you may prefer texts with more extensive notes.

ENGL 026.002 (Introduction to Drama)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
Margaret O’Shaughnessey
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Drama of the Greek, Renaissance, and Modern periods.

ENGL 027.002 (Studies in Literature)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Nicholas Allen
Irish Writing, 1800-2000. This course serves as an introduction to current themes and major texts in Irish writing from 1800 to 2000. An overview of the literature, in drama, poetry and prose, the course will ground Irish writing in the changing historical, social and political contexts of the period to give a sense of writers active in their culture. Irish writing will emerge as a postcolonial literature in English responsive to the pressures of emigration, revolution and reaction, in Europe and America, from the Famine to the Celtic Tiger.
Texts:
Beckett, Waiting for Godot (Grove Pr: 1997) ISBN: 0802130348
Behan, Behan’s Complete Plays (Methuen: 2001) ISBN: 0413387801
Brown, The Last September (Vintage: 2000) ISBN: 0385720149
Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (Oxford UP: 2000) ISBN: 0192835637
Healy, The Bend for Home (Harvest: 2000) ISBN: 0156011646
Heaney, Opened Ground (Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1999) ISBN: 0374526788
Joyce, Dubliners (Dover: 1991) ISBN: 0486268705
McGuinness, Frank McGuinness: Plays One (Faber & Faber: 1996) ISBN: 0571177409
O’Brien, The Land of Spices (Trafalgar Sq: 1988) ISBN: 0860688267
O’Faolain, Are You Somebody? (Owl Bks: 1999) ISBN: 0805056645
Stoker, Dracula (Signet: 1997) ISBN: 0451523377
Synge, The Playboy of the Western World (Dover: 1993) ISBN: 0486274520
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover: 1991) ISBN: 0486264785
Yeats, Yeats’ Poems (Palgrave Macmillan: 1996) ISBN: 0333675185

ENGL 027.003 (Studies in Literature)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Professor Gregg Flaxman
Romantic Comedy Today. This course is intended to introduce students to one of the most popular, and least considered, of contemporary genres--the romantic comedy. The class will begin by tracing some of the classical and Renaissance antecendents of the genre before we move onto the properly modern (and mostly cinematic) history of romantic comedy. Most significantly, the class will revolve around the development of what is sometimes called "screwball comedy," a cycle of romantic comedies in the 1930s and early 1940s that, as one critic has put it, "celebrated a particularly playful and even anarchic kind of love." Texts in the class will include plays by Menander, Plautus, Shakespeare and Noel Coward; novels by Jane Austen and Helen Fielding; and criticism by Henri Bergson, Northrop Frye, and Johan Huizinga. Of course, we'll also see a number of films, including Lubitch's Shop Around the Corner (which is the source for the more recent You've Got Mail), Capra's It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Sturges The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, as well as others.

ENGL 028.001 (Major American Authors)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Harriet King
This class focuses on the theme of Eden (loosely based on America as the "new Eden") with derivative themes such as the "fall," the struggle between good and evil, guilt, paradises lost and found. Readings will include short stories by Hawthorne and Cather; novellas by Henry James and Elizabeth Spencer; novels by Toni Morrison, Steinbeck, Hemingway and Tim O'Brien; Arthur Miller's play, After the Fall; poems by Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, e. e. cummings and Rita Dove.

ENGL 028.002 (Major American Authors)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Trudier Harris-Lopez
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, or others.

ENGL 028.003 (Major American Authors)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Professor Daniel Anderson
We will investigate major American authors in five groupings:
1. Naturalism-Stephen Crane and Frank Norris
2. Nineteenth-Century Women Writers-Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
3. Twentieth-Century Poets-Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell
4. Southern American Writers-Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Doris Betts
5. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance-Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
We will pick and choose from these groups to develop a syllabus that reflects the interests of members of the course. We will also draw from films, works of art, and recordings to broaden the range of materials covered. We will select appropriate works, then think and write critically about them: we will analyze, settings, characters, themes, symbols, contexts, and other key elements of literature; we will learn to combine and relate these elements to formulate viable approaches to the works we study; and we will practice explaining our approaches to others through writing. We will also investigate how technology can be used to study and share with others our thoughts about literature. (Technical skills are not necessary for this course; we will learn literary inquiry, technical, and writing skills together.) Teaching methods include discussion, some lecture, and workshop/project-based activities. There will be no exams. Four short writing assignments will be spread throughout the semester. A medium-length project will be due at the midterm. A more extensive final project will be due at the end of the semester. Mid-term and final projects may take the form of digital video compositions, Web sites, or traditional papers.

ENGL 028.004 (Major American Authors)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
David Davis
The American Dream. This semester we will explore American writers' portrayal of the American Dream. Beginning with colonists who came to the New World seeking freedom, independence, and opportunity, we will discuss how to define the American Dream, how the American Dream may be achieved, who has been and continues to be excluded from the American Dream, how the American Dream has changed over time, and why the American Dream may be a nightmare for some. Teaching method: student presentations, lecture, and discussion. Assignments: mandatory attendance, quizzes, presentation, two short papers, one longer paper, and final examination.
Texts: Selections of colonial writing; Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; Walt Whitman, selections from Leaves of Grass; Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth; Sherwood Andersen, Winesburg, Ohio; selections of modernist American poetry; Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun; selections of post-modern American poetry; John Updike, Rabbit, Run; N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn; and Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street.

ENGL 028.005 (Major American Authors)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Susan Irons
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, or others.

ENGL 028.006 (Major American Authors)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Tara Robbins
English 28 is an introductory course in American literature designed principally for General College students with a limited background in literature and a variety of career goals. The aim of the course is to give them a pleasurable and informative introduction to key characteristics, phases, and issues in American literature not through a systematic survey but through substantial reading in works of six to eight authors. This section will focus on American religious culture(s), so students should be prepared to discuss the religious issues foregrounded in the texts we read together. Aesthetic perspective.

ENGL 028.007 (Major American Authors)
TR, 02:00-03:15
David Faflik
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, or others.

ENGL 029.001 (Honors: Types of Literature)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Patrick O’Neill
First-year students only. This course will examine two genres, epic and drama, with an emphasis on how each genre reflects the culture in which it was composed. Within epic we will study one work each from Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic (Irish) cultures. Within drama we will examine two medieval, one Shakespearean, and two modern Irish plays. There will be 4-5 short papers and a final exam. Texts: Beowulf: New Verse Translation, trans. by S. Heaney (Norton, 2000); Virgil, Aeneid, trans. by Mandelbaum (Bantam, 1971); The Tain, trans. by Thomas Kinsella; Stages of Drama, 4th edn., ed. by C. H. Klaus, Gilbert, Field (Bedford/St Martin's 1999).

ENGL 029.002 (Honors: Types of Literature)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Todd Taylor
Multimedia Composition and Documentaries. In this course, students will author multimedia documentaries published electronically on the World Wide Web (and perhaps CD-ROM). Each composition will incorporate textual, hypertextual, graphic, audio, video, and photographic elements using advanced computer technologies. These multimedia compositions will be “documentaries” in the sense that students will tell creative yet well-researched, carefully crafted, true stories about intriguing peoples and places. The nature of such documentaries and of multimedia composition will require this course to be highly interdisciplinary: students will be “composing” within a hybrid genre drawing on the qualities of expository, creative, historical, visual, oral, musical, digital, and aesthetic communication. Students should be comfortable working in the Windows/PC environment, although they need not be computer experts.
Texts:
Bamberger, et al., Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory. (Norton: 1998) ISBN 0939319229
Coles, Doing Documentary Work. (Oxford UP: 1998) ISBN 0195124952

ENGL 029B.001 (Honors: Reading and Writing Women's Lives: Personal Essay, Autobiography, Biography, and Autoethnography)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Jane Danielewicz
Concentrating on the idea of the personal, this course will focus on stories of women's lives or the imaginative work of self-making through writing. In reading published essays (and in writing some of our own), we will investigate questions about self and identity as well as examine how experience, contexts, and characteristics (like gender or race) shape not only stories but persons themselves. The writing assignments, organized around four genres (autobiography, autoethnography, biography, and personal essay), will encourage students to experiment by writing these same forms. Given students' interests, writing projects may involve traditional literary criticism, autobiography, biography, or cultural history (using primary archival research and/or investigating individuals/communities outside the university). The course will be taught using a workshop approach that emphasizes writing as a process and fosters active reading and writing, and experiential and collaborative learning. Students will be organized into small working groups that will act as writing and discussion groups, creating smaller cohorts within the larger classroom community. Using newly available technology, our class will culminate in the production of an on-line anthology of writing projects than can include visual and aural components. Published writers will visit as guest speakers. These may include Creative Writing professors and representatives from the Southern Oral History Project. Texts: (1) Possible autobiography or creative non-fiction include The Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich, The Liar's Club by Mary Karr, and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen; (2) a Course Pack including selections of personal essays and criticism including Joan Didion, Linda Brodkey, Sidonie Smith, and Joan Scott; (3) Books about writing such as Composing a Life by Donald Murray and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. (This section of English 29 has been developed with the aid of a Brandes Grant.) FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ONLY.

ENGL 029W.001 (Honors: Introduction to Creative Writing)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Bland Simpson
This course is a collective, collaborative exploration of the processes and techniques of fiction, through close observation and discussion of about three dozen stories (Norton Anthology of Short Fiction), and the writing of six to eight short exercises dealing with the elements of fiction (setting, characterization, dialogue, point of view, etc.) and, later in the term, one short story (2,000-5,000 words). There is a midterm examination. The class is a seminar, a workshop with both written and oral critiques of student works required, and students can expect an atmosphere that is lively and encouraging as we investigate the imaginative craft of fiction. FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ONLY

ENGL 029W.002 (Honors: Introduction to Creative Writing)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor James Seay
While the prime effort of the course will be the nine poems that each student will write and revise, we will also review closely the basic elements of poetry, such as imagery, figurative language, sound repetition, rhythm, and so on, with a mind to the potential of those elements in the student's own writing. In addition to these readings in the textbook, there will be assignments in texts on the reserve self, group reports on fellow students' poems, quizzes, and a mid-term exam. Each student will also keep a notebook of observations, impressions, quotations, isolated images that may give rise to poems, what have you. Most classes will begin with the reading of a contemporary poem, each student having an assigned day for that duty. For the most part, however, we will be writing poems and attempting to assess their strengths and weaknesses in open class discussion. Text: An Introduction to Poetry, ed. Kennedy & Gioia, 10th edition.

ENGL 031.001 (Advanced Composition & Rhetorical Thry)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Leila Christenbury
Helping students to write well is not a mystery or an arcane science and is not limited by students' "natural" writing talent. Through intelligent topic construction, appropriate pre-writing strategies, sufficient time to compose, and applicable revision strategies, students can improve writing skills and writing fluency. Writing for real audiences and publishing finished work help students sharpen their interest in writing. Through practice and through reading and discussion of research and theory, this class will consider all of the aforementioned elements in the teaching of writing skills to secondary students. In addition, the course will address the place of grammar in the writing class, the use of word processing software, and, at some length, the assessment and evaluation of student writing. Teaching Methods: Discussion, small group work, final project. Requirements: Class attendance, weekly readings, short assignments, journal entries, participation in revision groups, completion of four essays, final exam
Texts:
Christenbury, Leila. Making the Journey, 2ed. Heinemann, 2000.
Spandel, Vicki. Creating Writers: Linking Assessment and Writing Instruction. 3rd ed. Longman, 2001.

ENGL 034.001 (Intermediate Fiction Writing)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Sarah Dessen
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)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Daniel Wallace
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)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Professor Randall Kenan
The goal of this course will be to re-enforce and exercise the basic techniques, strategies and craft of carefully constructed prose fiction. Emphasis will be placed on characterization, plot, language, scene-crafting, and most importantly revision. Learning to intelligently assess the work of other writers (and thereby ones own work, it is hoped) is also a major goal of this course. By the end of the course the student should emerge with not only a better grasp of the skills of fiction writing, but also the ability to constructively critique their own work as well as the work of others. At least three full-length stories (no less than 2500 words) will be presented to each member of the class in advance, and discussed the following week. Written critiques of peer stories are required. In lieu of a final exam, students will be expected to complete a revision of one of the earlier work-shopped stories. Class attendance and class participation are crucial.

ENGL 034P.001 (Intermediate Poetry Writing)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor James Seay
Limited to 15 students. Permission of the Director of Creative Writing. Prerequisite, English 25W. A workshop devoted to intensive examination of selected contemporary poems and of students' own work.

ENGL 034P.002 (Intermediate Poetry Writing)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Alan Shapiro
Limited to 15 students. Permission of the Director of Creative Writing. Prerequisite, English 25W. A workshop devoted to intensive examination of selected contemporary poems and of students' own work.

ENGL 035.001 (Advanced Fiction Writing)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Lawrence Naumoff
Prerequisite, English 34 and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A workshop class for students seriously interested in writing fiction. A continuation of English 34 with emphasis on the short story and novel. Class discussion of longer papers by students; analysis of papers in small groups; details studied in conferences with instructors.

ENGL 035N.001 (Reading & Writing Creative Non-Fiction)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Randall Kenan
The goal of this course will be to equip the writer with a better understanding and approach to fundamental techniques of narrative non-fiction writing: character development, point-of-view, dialogue, language, narrative structure and organization, tone, focus. Issues of persona, facts, and subjectivity will be examined and explored in the students own writing. The student will be encouraged to develop her or his own pieces of writing in the most vivid and effective way, utilizing techniques and ideas advanced and used during the last few decades of the twentieth century by notable writers of narrative non-fiction. Initially the students will be asked to read, analyze and discuss a number of non-fiction pieces from authors such as Joseph Mitchell, James Baldwin, M.F.K. Fisher, John McPhee, Lillian Hellman, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, David Sedaris and others. The balance of the semester will be spent in workshop, developing three pieces of non-fiction, each being no fewer than 2500 words in length. In lieu of a final exam, students will be expected to complete a revision of one of the two work-shopped stories. Class attendance and class participation are crucial.

ENGL 036.001 (English Grammar)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Professor Connie Eble
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, 6th ed. (Longman: 2002) ISBN: 0205336221

ENGL 036.002 (English Grammar)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Erika Lindemann
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, 6th ed. (Longman: 2002) ISBN: 0205336221

ENGL 039.001 (Writing Children's Fiction)
MW, 03:30-04:45
Ruth Moose
Prerequisite, Introduction to Fiction or Poetry (23W, 25W, 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 039B.001 (Reading Children's Literature)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Professor Laurie Langbauer
How do we define children's literature and what function does it serve? Why should we still care about it after we are adults? What ends have different historical periods tried to advance through their different understandings of what constitutes childhood? What do we mean by childhood now? In what ways does children's literature point to our basic assumptions about meaning, culture, self, society, gender, economics?
This course will construct an overview of the tradition of children's literature in order to consider such questions. We will read key texts from that tradition-some still highly visible in our culture; others that have seemed to vanish. The organizing idea of the course is that children's literature is a vital and important key to the things we hold most dear in culture. Unlocking its language gives us a way to read history and our own meaning within it. Lecture. Paper, midterm, final. Texts will include: nursery rhymes and fairy tales, Carroll, Lear, Nesbit, Grahame, Milne, Barrie, Alcott, Twain, Baum, Rowling.

ENGL 042.001 (Movie Criticism)
MW, 02:00-04:50
Professor Gregg Flaxman
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the vocabulary and rhetoric of film analysis, from the most basic concepts of the cinema (shot, frame, montage) to the more complicated ideas about space, time, action, genre, and narrative that the cinema uniquely realizes. In this sense, the aim of the class will be twofold: on the one hand, students will be asked to critically re-consider and re-evaluate the habitual ways we all watch and think about the movies; on the other hand, students will be asked to begin open themselves to cinematic techniques, ideas, and histories that they may not have encountered in the past. As such, films for the class will include more traditional Hollywood fare (e.g., Hitchcock's North by Northwest, Spielberg's Jaws, and Polanski's Chinatown) as well a number of lesser-seen foreign films (e.g., Ray's World of Apu, Bresson's A Man Escaped, and Kurasawa's Seven Samurai).

ENGL 043.001 (The English Novel)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Laurie Langbauer
We will read important novels of nineteenth-century Britain, including novels widely popular at the time. These are novels filled with monsters, freaks, and outsiders. Why? In pondering that, we will consider the form of the novel, nineteenth-century history and culture, as well as our own critical responses to the texts. How do our expectations govern how we read? How do our assumptions about what a novel should be reflect our sense of how the world should work? How do our own cultural interests determine our view of the nineteenth century? Teaching methods: Lecture (with students required to attend one discussion section per week). Requirements: weekly quizzes, 5 pp. paper, midterm, and final.

ENGL 047W.002 (Stylistics)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Daphne Athas

ENGL 049.001 (Studies in Literary Topics: Young Adult Literature)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Leila Christenbury
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the prospective secondary and middle school English/language arts teacher, the English major, or the interested student with young adult literature: what it is, how to select it, how to teach it, and how to evaluate its literary merit. The issue of censorship will be explored on an ongoing basis throughout the course, as will the topics of curriculum, diversity, and media. Teaching Methods: Discussion, small group work, final project. Requirements: Class attendance, weekly readings, participation in discussion, completion of three booktalk papers and three other papers, final exam.
Texts:
Bushman, John H. and Kay Parks Haas. Using Young Adult Literature in the English Classroom. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2001.
Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World.
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War.
O'Brien, Robert. Z for Zachariah.
Williams-Garcia, Rita. Like Sisters on the Homefront.

ENGL 049B.001 (Studies In Literary Topics: Women and Writing in Early Modern England)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Megan Matchinske
Course Objectives: To introduce students to a wide variety of Medieval and Early Modern English texts authored by women. The texts to be covered include advice books, closet drama, court examinations, defenses, diaries, meditations, poetry, prophecy, and utopia.
In this course students will identify concerns common to these authors and develop a working set of criteria (legal, spiritual, moral) within which to evaluate English womens writings of the medieval and early modern periods. Given the range of materials considered--these texts are temporally, geographically, generically, and socially disparate--students will also be asked to construct a theory of gender formation that takes into account the multiple refigurings of appropriate conduct and behavior for women within these accounts, and recognizes simultaneously the changing relationships between legitimate female authority and public and private voice in England. Secondary readings will include selections by critics from a number of different disciplines and critical positions. Classtime will be spent in lecture and group discussion of pertinent texts.
Texts (tentative):
Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeeth-Century Englishwomen. Ed. Elspeth Graham. London: Routledge, 1989.
Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700). Ed. Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.
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ENGL 049E.002 (Studies In Literary Topics: Chicana/o Noir)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Maria DeGuzman
"Noir," a term employed mostly for film but with roots as much in texts as in film-think of "LA noir," for instance, that was situated on the pulp fiction pages of novels and stories by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett before it made its way to the silver screen. This course examines another noir mode running parallel to and intersecting Anglo LA, San Francisco, Western/Southwestern noir and obliquely acknowledged in Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo-Chicana/o [politicized Mexican-American] noir. Aside from some critical and theoretical readings on noir aesthetics, works to be considered include Amrico Paredes's The Shadow (1950s/1998), John Rechy's City of Night (1963), Margarita Cota-Cardenas's Puppet (1985), Lucha Corpi's Eulogy for a Brown Angel (1992) and Black Widow's Wardrobe (1999), Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams (1996), Harry Gamboa, Jr.'s Urban Exile, Graciela Limón's Erased Faces (2001), and Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Returning as Shadows (2003). The course will be conducted as mixed lecture/discussion with two 8-10 page essays, two 2-page essays, and collaborative oral presentations.

ENGL 051.001 (English Literature of the Middle Ages)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Patrick O'Neill
English writing from the eighth century to the fifteenth, exclusive of Chaucer.

ENGL 052.001 (Chaucer)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Professor Joseph Wittig
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 2002 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
Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde. (Oxford UP: 1998) ISBN: 0192832905

ENGL 054.001 (Sixteenth-Century English Literature)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Mary Floyd-Wilson
This course will introduce students to major works of poetry and prose written in sixteenth-century England. We will explore the complex features and interests of the pastoral, lyric, epic, and romance genres, as distinct forms and as woven threads in generically-mixed texts of the period. Heavy on discussion with some short lectures, the course emphasizes the literature's engagement with the political, religious, and social issues of the day. In our investigation of the constraints and ingenuity of the period's dominant genres, we will pursue how and why these literary forms represent certain intellectual and social developments, including (though not restricted to) the rise of Humanism, the reform movements (in religion, education, and social behavior), the gender politics of the English sonnet, the ambivalent perceptions of foreign cultures, and the ongoing construction of English identity.
Authors may include Sir Thomas More, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Ralegh, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. Written reading responses, two papers (5-7 pp), midterm and final examinations.

ENGL 058.001 (Shakespeare)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Professor Ritchie Kendall
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)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Christopher Armitage
The agenda is the study of ten 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.
Texts:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed., ed. David Bevington. (Addison-Wesley: 1997) ISBN: 0321012542

ENGL 058.003 (Shakespeare)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Professor Jessica Wolfe
This course emphasizes the study of Shakespearean drama in its historical context, examining the ways in which this playwright masterfully negotiates the conflicting religious, philosophical, political, and scientific ideas of his day. We will read eleven plays as well as brief texts written by contemporary poets, theologians, and political and moral philosophers including Francis Bacon, Michel de Montaigne, King James I, Philip Sidney, and John Calvin. Plays for the Fall 2003 version of this course will include three tragedies (Hamlet; King Lear; Othello); two English history plays (Henry IV Part I and Henry V); the Roman play Coriolanus; three comedies (Merchant of Venice; Measure for Measure; Troilus and Cressida); and two romances, including The Tempest.
Students will be expected to write 4 essays, the last of which will be a longer, research-style paper of 8-12 pages on a topic to be developed in consultation with the professor. There will also be a final examination. The format of the class is a combination of lecture and discussion.
Texts:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed., ed. David Bevington. (Addison-Wesley: 1997) ISBN: 0321012542 (similar text/s may be substituted with my approval)
Additional required materials will be available on electronic reserve and/or on Blackboard.

ENGL 058.005 (Shakespeare)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Alan Dessen
This course will include a representative sampling of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances, with particular emphasis on Hamlet and King Lear. Special attention will be paid to interpretive problems linked to the staging of plays, with use in class of scenes from productions available on video-cassette. Teaching Methods: Lecture-discussion. Requirements: A mid-term and final examination; two essays; weekly plot-summary quizzes.
Texts: The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, Ed. Orgel. (Penguin: 2002) ISBN: 0141000589

ENGL 058.006 (Shakespeare)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Megan Matchinske
What happens when an 11th-century Scottish king and queen are transplanted to a 1970s burger franchise? Can Portland's homeless offer us insight into the War of Roses? And how, finally, ought we to evaluate that box office bardolator--the never elusive Sir Kenneth Branagh?
For centuries, artists have been performing and rewriting the plays of William Shakespeare. Of late the big screen has become a preeminent site for such adaptation. From low budget parodies like Billy Morrissettes campy 2002 comic portrayal of Macbeth, Scotland, PA, to more faithful productions like Branagh's BBC supported and Royal Shakespeare Company-cast Henry V, popular film audiences have embraced Shakespearean theater as their own. This course will engage that passion to the fullest, examining nine Shakespeare plays and their modern cinematic equivalents.
Students will be asked to attend several night viewings of the films, and at least one course period will be devoted to a discussion of film theory. Format: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Two long papers (8-10 pages); weekly quzzes; final exam.
Texts
David Bevington, ed., The Complete Works of Shakespeare, updated 4th edition.

ENGL 058H.001 (Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Professor Mary Floyd-Wilson
In this course, we will read six of Shakespeare's plays carefully, paying close attention to our varied responses and learning to defend, expand, and complicate our interpretations. We will also acquaint ourselves with other early modern primary documents, including travel accounts, behavioral manuals, histories, county records, homilies, proclamations, statutes, etc. By situating the plays within the English Renaissance culture that these documents help us imagine, we will strive to understand Shakespeare's works as products of a specific historical period-a period marked by its own peculiar notions of identity, custom, and conduct. Spending approximately two weeks on each play and its context--as provided by a pertinent selection of thematically-related documents--we will (most likely) study the issues informing The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Henry IV, Part I, and Othello (though this list of plays may change). For this last play, Othello, it will be a class project to collect and collate the primary documents that we believe either informed the play or would help enrich a modern reader's understanding of the social and cultural issues represented in the play. In addition to this collective assignment, there will be two essays, a midterm examination, and a final. Participation, including thoughtful contributions to class discussion, a demonstration of engaged reading, and intelligent postings to our class web-forum, will count for a substantial portion of the final grade.

ENGL 060.001 (Seventeenth-Century English Literature)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Professor Christopher Armitage
A study of poetry and prose written by Raleigh, Donne, Bacon, Jonson, Burton, Herbert, Browne, Herrick, Marvell, and others in an era when kings and queens were dethroned and executed, England was briefly a commonwealth without a monarch, and "the world turned upside down" as the modern era evolved. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion, focused on the literature in relation to its historical and cultural context. Requirements: Quizzes, short papers, a mid-term and a cumulative exam.
Texts: Broadview Anthology of 17th Century Verse & Prose. Rudrum, ed. (Broadview:2000) ISBN: 1551110539

ENGL 064.001 (Milton)
MWF, 10:00-10:50
Professor Reid Barbour
A study of Milton's major prose and poetry, with a focus on how his politics, religion, philosophy, and poetics relate to the turbulent times in which he lived. Three papers, a final. Lecture and Discussion.

ENGL 066.001 (Prose & Poetry of the Classical Period)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
Professor Thomas Stumpf
Dryden, Addison, Steele, Swift, Pope, and Johnson, Boswell and Gray.

ENGL 072.001 (The Chief Romantic Poets)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Jeanne Moskal
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. (Harcourt Brace:1996) ISBN: 0155002600
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park. (Penguin: 1966) ISBN: 0140434143
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text. MacDonald & Scherf, eds. (Broadview: 1994) ISBN: 1551113082

ENGL 072.002 (The Chief Romantic Poets)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Joseph Viscomi
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:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature-The Romantic Period (7E), Vol 2A. (Norton) ISBN: 0393975681
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)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Professor Joseph Viscomi
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:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature-The Romantic Period (7E), Vol 2A. (Norton) ISBN: 0393975681
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed., Maurice Hindle (Penguin: 1992) ISBN: 0140433627
Trimmer, Guide to MLA Documentation. 5th edition. (Houghton Mifflin: 1999) ISBN: 0395938511

ENGL 073.001 (English Literature, 1832-1890)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Allan Life
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)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
Professor Allan Life
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 the Rossettis and William Morris. Teaching Methods: Lectures and discussion. Requirements: two in-class essays; 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 080.001 (American Literature to 1865)
MWF, 11:00-11:50
Professor Philip Gura
A wide-ranging introduction to the literature, broadly defined, of pre-Civil War America. In addition to such well-known authors as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville, we will hear many other voices from the period of settlement through 1860 that helped to shape American discourse. While we will concern ourselves primarily with why certain authors and works are representative of different points in American history, we will not lose sight of the fact that some texts seem to rise above the historical moment to be considered masterpieces of the written language. An important course for the well-rounded English major as well as for those who think that they might specialize in American literature. Requirements: Two in-class exams and a final. One 10-12 page paper on an assigned topic (students will have choice of several possibilities). Regular attendance is expected.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 1. 6th edition. (Norton) ISBN:0393977935

ENGL 080.002 (American Literature to 1865)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Professor Jane Thrailkill
Imagining America, beginnings to 1865. Beginning with the colonial period and concluding with the Civil War, we will consider how different writers struggled over the question of what exactly it means to be an American and to write an American literature. Our reading (at times heavy) will include journals, sermons, travel writing, slave and captivity narratives as well as poetry and fiction. We'll also pair some literary works with their film counterparts, such as The Last of the Mohicans and The Scarlet Letter. Teaching methods: Some lecture, but a heavy emphasis on class discussion, group work, and student presentations. Requirements: Attendance at all class meetings, frequent brief writing assignments, participation in online discussion forum, presentation on a historical topic, one eight-page essay, midterm, final exam.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I.

ENGL 080.003 (American Literature to 1865)
MWF, 02:00-02:50
Professor Jane Thrailkill
Imagining America, beginnings to 1865. Beginning with the colonial period and concluding with the Civil War, we will consider how different writers struggled over the question of what exactly it means to be an American and to write an American literature. Our reading (at times heavy) will include journals, sermons, travel writing, slave and captivity narratives as well as poetry and fiction. We'll also pair some literary works with their film counterparts, such as The Last of the Mohicans and The Scarlet Letter. Teaching methods: Some lecture, but a heavy emphasis on class discussion, group work, and student presentations. Requirements: Attendance at all class meetings, frequent brief writing assignments, participation in online discussion forum, presentation on a historical topic, one eight-page essay, midterm, final exam.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I.

ENGL 082B.001 (American Literature from 1930 to present)
MWF, 09:00-09:50
Professor Kimball King
A survey of American Literature from 1930 to the present. Requirements: A midterm, short term paper, and final. 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 TAs. 176 students.
Texts: American Tradition in Literature, Vol II. Ed., Perkins. 10th edition. (McGraw Hill) ISBN: 0070494231

ENGL 083.001 (The American Novel)
TR, 11:00-12:15
Professor Linda Wagner-Martin
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
Toni Morrison, Beloved. (Plume) ISBN: 0452264464
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. (Vintage: 1995) ISBN: 0679732764
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried. (Broadway) ISBN: 076790289
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden. (Scribner's:1987) ISBN: 0684804522
4 Classic American Novels. (Signet:1969) ISBN: 0451527711

ENGL 083.002 (The American Novel)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Robert Cantwell
English 83 introduces the range and variety of fiction writing in America, focusing on works which, because they have consistently engaged the interest of readers, critics, and scholars, have come to be regarded as monuments of the genre. By general consensus comparable in psychological subtlety, philosophical depth, and formal complexity to the masterpieces of world literature, they have permanently installed themselves as icons of the American imagination and properly belong to any undergraduate education in literature.
Ours is a course in "literature in context:" grounded in close reading and thorough discussion of the text at the levels of language, style, and voice, with special attention, on the one hand, to character, its development, to dramatic structure and narrative form, and on the other to the genesis of imaginary or "implied" narrators and readers whose meeting on the field of language and story is the fountainhead of meaning in fiction. As questions of kind-upon what discursive and narrative traditions does the fiction draw? how does it conceive of character? what are its rhetorical influences, its philosophical aims?-consistently impinge upon the novel as a form, we shall consistently entertain them. Finally, since each of our works belongs to a specific historical context, we shall strive to supply it in our reading and discussion, consistently measuring the range of our own responses against historical inference, enlarging the life of the fiction both for its own age and for ours.

ENGL 083.003 (The American Novel)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Fred Hobson
This course will examine the American novel from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth, beginning with The Scarlet Letter and going through Beloved. We will examine the novels not only as works of art but also as reflections of their times and places-as social and cultural commentary. Major writers included are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion (students should be prepared to discuss). Requirements: Two exams during the term; reading quzzes; oral reports; final examination; one long paper (about 10-15 pp.).
Texts:
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. (Penguin: 1959) ISBN: 0451525221
Melville, Moby Dick. (Signet: 1998) ISBN: 0451526996
James, Portrait of a Lady. (Houghton Mifflin: 1956) ISBN: 0395051061
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Dover: 1994) ISBN: 0486280616
Chopin, The Awakening. (Berkley: 1964) ISBN: 1573225118
Dreiser, Sister Carrie. (Bantam: 1958) ISBN: 0553213741
Wharton, The House of Mirth. (Penguin: 1980) ISBN: 0451523628
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. (Simon & Schuster: 1926) ISBN: 0684800713
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. (Simon & Schuster: 1992) ISBN: 0684801523
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (Random: 1986) ISBN: 0679732187
Ellison, Invisible Man. (Random: 1980) ISBN: 0679732764
Morrison, Beloved. (Plume: 1998) ISBN: 0452280621

ENGL 084.001 (African American Literature to 1950)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Professor Trudier Harris-Lopez
Survey of African American literature from the beginning to 1950, from the slave narratives through Richard Wright.

ENGL 084.002 (African American Literature to 1950)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Mae Henderson
Focusing on the critical essay, autobiography, and prose fiction, this course aims to introduce students to the issues of form, genre, and intertextuality as they define a tradition (rather than a survey) of African American literature and criticism before 1950. Of particular concern will be the ways in which selected texts appropriate and revise earlier texts within the tradition while, at the same time, clearing a "fresh space" for their own articulation. We will also locate these works within their contexts of reception and production, examining their historical and cultural significance, especially as they engage and challenge the dominant cultural narratives. Our course objective is to develop skills in close reading, cultural criticism, and, in general, an enjoyment in the pleasures of the texts.
Readings:
*Robert Stepto, "Teaching Afro-American Literature..."
*____________, "Preface" to Behind the Veil
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Wilson, Our Nig
Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
*Alain Locke, "The New Negro"
*Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
Nella Larsen, Passing
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
* On reserve in House Undergraduate Library.

ENGL 084H.001 (African American Lit to 1950: Slave Narratives and Best-selling American Literature)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor William Andrews
The purpose of this course is to study the impact – thematically and formally – of the literature of slavery on three best-selling American novels that have shaped national ideas about slavery and race. The three novels are: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (1883), and William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1969). These novels appeared at crucial moments in America’s long history of struggle over its racial institutions. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the most widely read American novel of the 19th century, came out during the furor over the Fugitive Slave Law. Huckleberry Finn was written during the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction in the South. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published in the wake of racial upheaval throughout the United States and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
These novels, for better and for worse, have long eclipsed the African American texts that spurred their creation. Uncle Tom’s Cabin would never have been written, had Stowe not read two autobiographies by fugitive slaves: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada (1849). Before writing Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain published a slave narrative, “A True Story,” in the Atlantic Monthly and drew directly from James W.C. Pennington’s The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849) for the turning point of Huckleberry Finn. Styron’s novel occasioned so much controversy in part because of its revision of the original Confessions of Nat Turner (1831), the most complete account we have of the man who led the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history.
In this course we will study how white writers have made use of black texts to shape American ideas about slavery and our racial past. We will ask why some texts have become famous and canonical and others have been largely forgotten. We will conclude by examining two novels from the post-Civil Rights era, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) and Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986), to see how contemporary African Americans have reclaimed the literature of slavery to reorient American literature’s engagement with race.
Texts:
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (W. W. Norton, 1997)
Josiah Henson, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave (on-line)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (W.W. Norton, 1994).
Samuel Clemens, Huckleberry Finn (W.W. Norton, 1998)
James W.C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith (on-line)
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Thomas R. Gray, The Confessions of Nat Turner (on-line)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose

Requirements:
Regular attendance and participation.
An oral report.
A 15-20 page term paper

ENGL 086.001 (American Women Authors)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Linda Wagner-Martin
Study of American women writers from the mid 19th century to the present. Emphasis on works that emphasize themes relevant to women's lives in novel, short story, memoir, and poetry. Writing by Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Cathi Hanauer, Anne Sexton, Gertrude Stein, Helena Viramontes, Rita Mae Brown, and others; last novel or memoir is student's free choice. CROSSLISTED WITH WMST 86. Requirements: 2 papers (1500-1800 words), midterm and final.
Texts:
Barrett & Cullinan, American Women Writers. (St. Martin's: 1992) ISBN: 0312041217
Hanauer, My Sister's Bones. (Bantam: 1996) ISBN: 0384317042
Kingsolver, Animal Dreams. (Harper: 1990) ISBN: 0060921145
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Harper: 1990) ISBN: 0060916508
Morrison, Beloved. (Plume) ISBN: 0452264464
Wharton, Summer. (Bantam: 1993) ISBN: 0553214225
Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. (Bantam:1998) ISBN: 038549081x.

ENGL 088.001 (Southern American Literature)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Professor Joseph Flora
Looking at representative fiction, poetry, drama, and essays, this course will explore the literature of the American South. Postbellum Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Two hour examinations, two short papers, final examination.
Texts:
The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature. Francisco, et al, eds. (Prentice Hall: 2000) ISBN: 0130114901
Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy: A Novella. (UNC Press: 1994) ISBN: 0807844861
Tennessee Williams, Three by Tennessee Williams. (Signet: 1992) ISBN: 0451521498
and others.

ENGL 090.001 (Intro to Literary Criticism: Practices in Cultural Studies)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Tyler Curtain

ENGL 091.001 (British Novel from 1870 to WW II: Colonial Fictions)
TR, 12:30-01:45
Professor Rashmi Varma
This course will examine the ways in which British fiction from 1870 to 1945 imagined Britain's colonies and represented its rule in India, Africa, the Caribbean. The course will enable you to obtain a good sense of the modern novel--its literary and narrative techniques and innovations, the cultural context in which it arose, and its vexed relationship with political power and notions of "otherness". Teaching Methods: Lecture and Group Discussions. Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, class presentations and three short papers (4-5 pp each), and a longer research paper (10-12 pp).
Texts:
Rhys, Voyage in the Dark. (Norton:1982) ISBN: 0393311465
Kipling, Kim. (Tuttle:1994) ISBN: 046087408x
Haggard, She. (Oxford UP:1991) ISBN: 0192827677
Conrad, Heart of Darkness. (VHPS:1996) ISBN: 0312114915.
Forster, A Passage to India. (Harcourt Brace:1952) ISBN: 0156711427
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. (Harcourt Brace:1998) ISBN: 0156005557

ENGL 091.002 (British Novel from 1870 to WW II)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor Pamela Cooper
Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Cary, Greene, and others.

ENGL 092C.001 (Postcolonial Literature)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Professor Pamela Cooper
Course focuses on literatures in English outside the Anglo-American literary traditions. Designed as a comparative study of the traditions and innovations of 20th century English literatures in postcolonial locations such as Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, etc. Fulfills cultural diversity requirement.

ENGL 093.001 (20th Century British & American Poetry)
TR, 09:30-10:45
Professor George Lensing
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)
TR, 02:00-03:15
Professor William Harmon
We don't need no stinking Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed., 2 vols., $75. For less than half of that price, we can read a dozen Dover Thrift books of pre-1924 poetry by Hardy, Hopkins, Housman, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Lawrence, Pound, and Eliot; some later materials assembled from local sources; plus a bonus CD-ROM (Turner Wagner Hardy) that connects literature to general European art and music since 1800. Teaching method: improvisation.

ENGL 095.001 (20th Century British & American Drama)
MWF, 12:00-12:50
Professor Kimball King
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-Fiction)
R, 03:30-06:00
Professor Marianne Gingher
Prerequisite, English 35. The first of a two-semester sequence, three hours credit per semester. Permission of the 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.

ENGL 099A.002 (Honors In Creative Writing-Poetry)
TR, 03:30-04:45
Professor Michael McFee
Prerequisite, English 35P. The first of a two-semester sequence, three hours credit per semester. Permission of the 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.

ENGL 153.001 (Medieval Romance)
MWF, 01:00-01:50
Professor Edward Kennedy
The study of medieval English and Continental Arthurian literature with some attention to Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee. The medieval works will be read in modern translation. Teaching method: Lecture and discussion. Exams and papers: Midterm and final exam, one term paper and oral report for graduate students, two short critical papers for undergraduates.
Texts:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, tr. Brian Stone, Penguin.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain, tr. Lewis Thorpe, Penguin
Chrtien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances. Penguin.
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, tr. A.T. Hatto. Penguin.
Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan, tr. A.T. Hatto. Penguin.
The Quest of the Holy Grail, tr. P.M. Matarosso. Penguin.
The Death of King Arthur, tr. J. Cable. Penguin.
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript, ed. Helen Cooper. Oxford.
Tennyson. Idylls of the King. Penguin.
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Modern Library paperback ed.

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