Professor Connie Eble
MWF 02:00-02:50
English: The International Language. 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 and other films; 3) by conducting interviews with
non-native speakers of English; 4) by reading about how one community
of English speakers uses its local dialect of the international language
to preserve local identity (Ocracoke, North Carolina); by writing six
one-page papers, one five-page paper, and one ten-page paper.
Requirements: Class attendance is mandatory.
Texts:
English as a Global Language, 2nd ed (Cambridge UP: 2003)
Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks. Chapel Hill:UNC Press, 1997
Course pack of additional readings
Professor Todd Taylor
TR 11:00-12:15
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.
Professor John McGowan
MWF 10:00-10:50
William Butler Yeats and Irish Independence. 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.
Professor Jessica Wolfe
TR 02:00-03:15
Epic and Anti-Epic in Western Literature. This course traces the ongoing
contest in Western literature and culture between "epic" and
"anti-epic" values. We will read key texts in the epic tradition
from Homer and Virgil through the twentieth century in light of various
challenges to that tradition and tensions within it, and we will also
read poetry, drama, philosophy, and scriptural texts critical of the values
and conventions associated with epic literature.
Epic poetry is often assumed to promote values such as honor, valor, strife,
and the masculine or active life at the expense of contrary values such
as peace, tranquillity, and stereotypically feminine or domestic qualities.
Yet, as this course will explore, many “epic” works in fact
present a complex and often vexed relationship to “anti-epic”
qualities and values: Homer’s Odysseus longs for nothing more than
to return to his wife, son, and the family dog in his native Ithaca, while
Milton’s Adam and Eve enjoy assembling an alfresco picnic in the
pastoral landscape of pre-lapserian Eden. Far from blindly endorsing the
values with which we have come to associate epic, texts such as The Odyssey
and Paradise Lost instead challenge and either reject or reinvent those
values, asking us to ponder the moral and spiritual virtues of war, toil,
ambition, and glory.
Our readings will include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; a play by the Greek
anti-war poet Aristophanes; selections from Virgil's Bucolics and Aeneid;
selections from Roman poets and philosophers including Ovid and Lucretius;
key passages from the Old and New Testaments and from Church fathers such
as Clement and Origen; selections from several Arthurian romances; two
"epic" works by the great seventeenth-century English poet John
Milton, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained; selections from Renaissance
philosophers including Erasmus and Montaigne; and contemporary texts and
documents (including film) that interrogate and/or transform the conventions
of classical and Renaissance epic.
Professor Nicholas Allen
MW 12:30-01:45
'Set upon a golden bough to sing': the work of William Butler Yeats. Our
library possesses one of the world's premier collections of manuscripts
and books by Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats, one of the world's foremost
poets of the twentieth century in English. We will explore the range of
Yeats' work, of first editions, pamphlets, manuscripts and essay collections
to assess how Yeats' practice evolved from Mosada (1886) to Last poems
and plays (1939), with special emphasis on group research. In doing so,
we will consider how the public and private worlds of this complex writer
intertwine, of how, as Yeats put it, 'to sing of what is past, or passing,
or to come'. Our intention will be to read these texts in light of the
immediate pressures of Ireland and Europe of the period, of the Easter
Rising, the First World War and the rise of Fascism, to see if we can
recover some sense of the urgency with which Yeats wrote, of 'another
Troy to burn'.
In this class you will
* Encounter a broad range of Yeats' poetry, drama and prose
* Have access to original Yeats manuscript material
* Participate in group discussion of relevant texts
* Contribute to a group research project on an agreed aspect of Yeats'
work
* Present a research paper
Assessment: Group research project 50%; Two short assessed essays 20%
each; Assessed presentation 10%
Nora Corrigan
MWF 10:00-10:50
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.
Kimberly Burton-Oakes
MWF 11:00-11:50
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.
Professor Reid Barbour
MWF 12:00-12:50
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.
Professor Don Kennedy
MWF 01:00-01:50
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.
Eliza Laskowski
TR 09:30-10:45
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.
Professor Ted Leinbaugh
TR 11:00-12:15
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.
Professor Patrick O’Neill
TR 12:30-01:45
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.
Kara Getrost
MWF 09:00-09:50
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
Professor Laurence Avery
MWF 10:00-10:50
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
Strunk & White, Elements of Style. 4th ed. (Allyn & Bacon: 2000)
ISBN: 020530902X
Supritha Rajan
MWF 12:00-12:50
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
Clare Douglass
TR 09:30-10:45
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
Jennifer Cadwallader
TR 02:00-03:15
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
Brent Kinser
TR 03:30-04:45
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
Professor James Coleman
TR 12:30-01:45
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.
Kelley Sachs
TR 11:00-12:15
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.
Kathryn Wymer
MWF 08:00-08:50
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and
shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald,
Joyce, and others.
Robert Martinez
MWF 09:00-09:50
This section of English 23 will be an introduction to modern fiction and
will explore a broad range of exciting writers of the twentieth century.
We will study primarily the novel form in order to investigate a number
of crucial themes, art forms, and issues relevant to twentieth-century
life and art. In particular, we will focus on how twentieth-century writers
began to see themselves as uniquely "modern." The burgeoning
growth of industrial cities, the spread of imperialism and colonization,
the impact of the World Wars on societies, the development of atomic and
nuclear warfare, and the power of the cinema, the mass media, and computer
technology are just a few of the crucial moments of the twentieth century
that have shaped writers' attitudes and provoked them to develop innovative
writing techniques and styles to reflect these changes in global culture.
This course will examine how writers use the art of fiction to deal with
such issues in an attempt to understand life in "the modern age."
We will cover a range of intellectual movements that have become hallmarks
of the modern era, including modernism, postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism.
This course is designed for both English majors and nonmajors. Alongside
our study of these exciting writers, themes, art forms, and cultural events,
we will also learn the key concepts of how to read and analyze literature,
such as the study of symbolism, imagery, narrative structures and style,
point of view, and characterization. The format of the course will be
lecture and discussion.
Texts:
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts
Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One
Graham Greene: Brighton Rock
Martin Amis: Money
Don DeLillo: White Noise
Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers
Michelle Cliff: No Telephone to Heaven
J. M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians
Patricia Kennedy
MWF 10:00-10:50
Engl 23 offers an introduction to the reading of prose fiction. It features
analysis of various forms of fiction and study of the elements of fiction
(such as point of view, theme, characterization, and setting). A theme
emphasized this semester will be choices of priorities.
Texts:
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (Bedford/St. Martin's)
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (World's Classics-Oxford)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Penguin)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Collier/Macmillan)
Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms (Scribner)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Plume/Penguin)
David Ross
MWF 11:00-11:50
This class is an introduction to some of the major works of British and
American fiction of the past two hundred years. We will scrutinize a selection
of novels with the aim of honing the basic skills of literary analysis
and developing a sense of the medium's evolution and variety. Books will
include Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charlotte
Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, Ernest Hemingway's
A Farewell to Arms, Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, H.G. Wells' The Time
Machine, Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, and
Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night.
Patricia Kennedy
MWF 12:00-12:50
Engl 23 offers an introduction to the reading of prose fiction. It features
analysis of various forms of fiction and study of the elements of fiction
(such as point of view, theme, characterization, and setting). A theme
emphasized this semester will be choices of priorities.
Texts:
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (Bedford/St. Martin's)
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (World's Classics-Oxford)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Penguin)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Collier/Macmillan)`
Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms (Scribner)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Plume/Penguin)
David Ross
MWF 01:00-01:50
This class is an introduction to some of the major works of British and
American fiction of the past two hundred years. We will scrutinize a selection
of novels with the aim of honing the basic skills of literary analysis
and developing a sense of the medium's evolution and variety. Books will
include Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charlotte
Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, Ernest Hemingway's
A Farewell to Arms, Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, H.G. Wells' The Time
Machine, Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, and
Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night.
Tim Hayes
MWF 02:00-02:50
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and
shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald,
Joyce, and others.
Patrick Cooper
TR 08:00-09:15
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and
shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald,
Joyce, and others.
Gena Diamant
TR 09:30-10:45
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and
shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald,
Joyce, and others.
Tara Powell
TR 12:30-01:45
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and
shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald,
Joyce, and others.
Elizabeth Weston
TR 03:30-04:45
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and
shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald,
Joyce, and others.
Ruth Moose
MW 02:00-03:15
Prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories
and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class
criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories.
ENGL 023W.002 (Introduction to Fiction Writing)
Professor Randall Kenan
TR 12:30-01:45
Prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories
and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class
criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories.
Lawrence Naumoff
TR 09:30-10:45
Prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories
and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class
criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories.
Sarah Dessen
TR 11:00-12:15
Prerequisite to English 34 and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories
and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class
criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories.
David Davis
MWF 11:00-11:50
The American Childhood.
Texts: Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina; James Baldwin, Go Tell
It on the Mountain; Frank Chin, Donald Duk; Harry Crews, Childhood: Biography
of a Place; Annie Dillard, An American Childhood; Toni Morrison, The Bluest
Eye; Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine; Américo Paredes, George Washington
Gomez; and Richard Wright, Black Boy.
Stephanie Snyder
MWF 01:00-01:50
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature
of the present generation.
Lindsey Smith
TR 12:30-01:45
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature
of the present generation.
Elyse Crystall
TR 02:00-03:15
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature
of the present generation.
John Adrian
MWF 09:00-09:50
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.
Donald Wells
MWF 12:00-12:50
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.
Chris Hill
TR 09:30-10:45
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.
Tara Powell
TR 09:30-10:45
Prerequisite to English 34P and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published
poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and
discussion and revision of a number of original poems.
Peggy Rabb
TR 03:30-04:45
Prerequisite to English 34P and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published
poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and
discussion and revision of a number of original poems.
Thorpe Moeckle
MW 09:30-10:45
Prerequisite to English 34P and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published
poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and
discussion and revision of a number of original poems.
Professor Jim Seay
TR 11:00-12:15
Prerequisite to English 34P and other creative writing courses. A course
in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published
poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and
discussion and revision of a number of original poems.
Margaret O’Shaughnessey
MWF 10:00-10:50
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Drama of
the Greek, Renaissance, and Modern periods.
Texts:
Wilson, Fences. (Penguin:1986) ISBN: 0452264014
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dover:1994) ISBN: 0486282724
Fugard, Master Harold & the Boys. (Penguin:1982) ISBN: 0140481877
Euripides, Ten Plays. (Signet:1998) ISBN: 0451527003
Sophocles, Sophocles I: Three Tragedies. 2nd ed. (UCP:1991) ISBN: 0226307921
Shakespeare, Othello. (Dover:1996) ISBN: 0486290972
Aeschylus, Oresteia. (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux:1999) ISBN: 0374527059
Shepard, Seven Plays.
Karen Stapleton
TR 12:30-01:45
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Drama of
the Greek, Renaissance, and Modern periods.
Elizabeth Stockton
MWF 09:00-09:50
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.
Professor Philip Gura
MWF 11:00-11:50
A general introduction to American Literature through eight major authors,
from the 1850s to the 1930s. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Mid-term and final, 2 papers, occasional quizzes. Authors
include Poe, Melville, Thoreau, Douglass, Dickinson, Chopin, Twain and
Faulkner.
Bryan Sinche
MWF 12:00-12:50
In Democracy in America (1840), Alexis de Tocqueville writes that “In
America…the privileges of birth never existed and…riches confer
no peculiar rights on their possessors.” Before and since de Tocqueville
wrote, numerous American authors have used their writings to endorse or
critique the popular notion of the classless society that de Tocqueville
describes. In English 28, we will study American autobiography, fiction,
and poetry to see how various authors have contributed to the American
understanding of class and social mobility from 1630 until the present.
Though class will represent a starting point for many of our discussions,
we will also evaluate each text as both a literary artifact and as a window
into other themes (among them, race, gender, and the role of the artist)
in American cultural and intellectual history. Requirements: 2 short papers
and one longer essay; midterm and final exam; periodic short quizzes;
participation in class discussion.
Texts
Charles Chesnutt, Conjure Tales
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Herman Melville, Benito Cereno and “Bartleby, The Scrivener”
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Paul Lai
MWF 02:00-02:50
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.
Tara Robbins
TR 11:00-12:15
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.
Susan Irons
TR 12:30-01:45
This course introduces you to selected figures in nineteenth and twentieth
century American literature. As we study the assigned text of each author,
we will ask ourselves several important questions:
*How is this work an outgrowth of the cultural and geographic moment in
which it was written?
*How did the readers of the time receive the work?
*What impact did the work have on society or on subsequent literature?
*How do we experience the work as we read it within the cultural context
of the present?
Among the issues we will consider are race, gender, class, region, family,
and community.
The format of the class will focus on small group and large group discussion,
along with some lecture and group presentations.
Texts:
Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Selected Tales and Sketches
Emily Dickinson. Final Harvest
Frank Norris. McTeague
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
William Faulkner. Collected Stories
Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire
Final text to be selected by students during first week of class.
Professor Mae Henderson
TR 03:30-04:45
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.
Professor Erin Carlston
TR 11:00-12:15
Epic Traditions (GC Aesthetic/Literature Perspective). In this course
we'll read the epic poems of Homer in their entirety, as well as later
tragedies by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles that build on the foundations
of Homeric epic in order to pose compelling questions about justice, ethics,
and the relations between human beings and the divine. Finally, we'll
consider how Virgil's Aeneid appropriates and transforms the Greek tradition
in the service of the new Roman Empire. We will examine the cultural,
political, and aesthetic contexts that produced these works and that they,
in turn, helped to define. Emphasis will be on cooperative and participatory
learning and on taking a variety of critical approaches to these enduring
texts. No prerequisites. Required reading: the Iliad , the Odyssey, the
Aeneid; plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Seminar participants
should anticipate a heavy reading load. First-year students only.
Texts:
Homer, the Odyssey. Trans by Fagles. (Penguin: 1996/7) ISBN: 0374525749
Euripides, The Trojan Women. (Ivan R Dee, Inc: 1999) ISBN: 1566632242
Aeschylus, The Oresteia. Trans. by Fagles. (Penguin: 1984) ISBN: 0140443339
Virgil, Aeneid of Virgil. (Reissue ed.) Trans. by Mandelbaum. (Bantam:
1981) ISBN: 0553210416
Homer, the Iliad. (Reissue ed.) Trans. by Fagles. (Penguin: 1998) ISBN:
0140275363
Professor Jane Danielewicz
TR 12:30-01:45
Reading and Writing Women's Lives: Personal Essay, Autobiography, Biography,
and Autoethnography (GC Aesthetic/Literature Perspective; First-year students
only. Crosslisted with WMST 29B)
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.
Professor Marianne Gingher
TR 11:00-12:15
English 29W or 23W is prerequisite to 34. Freshman and sophomore honors
students only. Close study of the short story, with exercises in writing
and practice in the craft of fiction.
Professor Michael McFee
TR 03:30-04:45
This course or English 25W is prerequisite to English 34P. Freshman and
sophomore honors students only. Close study of the poem, with extensive
readings and exercises in writing poetry.
Professor Daniel Anderson
MWF 02:00-02:50
English 31 gives students an opportunity to think through issues related
to the teaching of writing and to practice creating writing assignments
and conducting writing courses. Texts are online or taken from students
themselves. The class also features explorations of instructional technology,
including the use of the Web in the writing class.
Professor Pam Durban
TR 09:30-10:45
Prerequisite, English 23W or 29W and permission of the Director of Creative
Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques employed in introductory
course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing of fiction (at least
two short stories), with an emphasis on style, structure, dramatic scene,
and revision.
Daniel Wallace
TR 11:00-12:15
Prerequisite, English 23W or 29W and permission of the Director of Creative
Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques employed in introductory
course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing of fiction (at least
two short stories), with an emphasis on style, structure, dramatic scene,
and revision.
Daphne Athas
TR 03:30-04:45
Prerequisite, English 23W or 29W and permission of the Director of Creative
Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques employed in introductory
course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing of fiction (at least
two short stories), with an emphasis on style, structure, dramatic scene,
and revision.
Professor Michael McFee
TR 11:00-12:15
Prerequisite, English 25W or 29W and permission of the Director of Creative
Writing. An intensification of the introductory class. A workshop devoted
to close examination of selected exemplary poems and the students' own
work.
Texts:
McClatchy, Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry. 2nd ed. (Vintage:
2003) ISBN: 1400030935
Michael Chitwood
TR 12:30-01:45
Prerequisite, English 25W or 29W and permission of the Director of Creative
Writing. An intensification of the introductory class. A workshop devoted
to close examination of selected exemplary poems and the students' own
work.
Lawrence Naumoff
TR 11:00-12:15
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.
Professor Randall Kenan
TR 11:00-12:15
Students in the course will explore the various modes of non-fiction writing
applied to representing actual experience, or what has been called Emersion
Journalism. This course will focus on subjective modes of representation.
A goal of this course will be to equip the student writer with a better
understanding of fundamental techniques of narrative non-fiction writing,
i.e.: character development, point-of--view, dialogue, language, narrative
structure and organization, tone, focus.
Along with occasional store exercises and readings, the students will
be expected to produce no less than two 2500 word (approx 10 pages) pieces
of narrative non-fiction over the course, plus one major revision at the
end of the semester.
Texts:
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, ed. Kevin
Kerrane and Ben Yagoda
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain,
Michael Paterniti
Professor Connie Eble
MWF 10:00-10:50
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
a course pack
Ruth Moose
MW 03:30-04:45
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.
Professor Laurie Langbauer
MWF 01:00-01:50
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.
Professor Gregg Flaxman
MW 02:00-04:50
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).
Recitation sections meet twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Professor Laurie Langbauer
MW 11:00-11:50
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.
Professor Tyler Curtain
MW 01:00-02:15
Imagining Extinctions. This course, designed for the major, will introduce
students to the study of science fiction by examining how late-twentieth
century novels and films depict the problem of extinction, human or otherwise.
How do these texts imagine time and evolution? Ecological disaster? What
is the relationship between human culture and technology? Why do computers
figure centrally to a re-imagining of society and its devolution or end?
How are contemporary social and political problems—from race to
gender, sexuality to class—figured in these texts and to what end?
We will read books such as Darwin’s Radio, Cryptonomicon, Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep, Wild Seed and Parable of the Sower. Among the
films we will screen are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Katsuhiro Otomo’s
Akira, Kubrick and Speilberg’s AI, 28 Days Later, and Solaris (Cameron
and Soderbergh). We will use contemporary critical essays to help guide
our discussions of the texts.
Professor Bland Simpson
TR 11:00-12:15
For students who undertake creative writing or a study of literary forms.
Professor Marianne Gingher
TR 02:00-03:15
For students who undertake creative writing or a study of literary forms.
Margaret O’Shaughnessey
MWF 12:00-12:50
This course will explore the relationship between American literature
and the physical environment which helped shape it. Why have we seen the
“land that [we] love” as both a paradise and a “howling
wilderness?” Why does the idea of wilderness both inspire and frighten
us? How has our literature been shaped by particular geographic regions?
How have our attitudes about a region been shaped by our perceptions or
misperceptions of its value? In addition to studying canonical texts expressing
an abiding interest in nature, we will examine works from the newer genres
of environmental and nature writing, works which blend history, science,
and politics into a literary form. We will, in addition, study the paintings
and photographs which have helped shape our response to the land about
us.
Professor Beverly Taylor
TR 03:30-04:45
Victorian Afterlife. In this course we will explore how novels of the
Victorian period (roughly the last two-thirds of the nineteenth century)
continue to capture the imaginations of contemporary writers and film
makers. We'll read a number of Victorian novels and study modern film
versions of them, as well as modern novels that may be considered sequels,
prequels, or rewritings of the nineteenth-century texts. In discussing
the relationships among these versions and revisions of the earlier fiction,
we'll be examining why these older works continue to appeal to modern
readers, how the modern revisions and reinterpretations and sequels are
in dialogue with their precursors, and what these modern updatings tell
us about our own culture, interests, and values. We will also read some
contemporary novels set in the Victorian period, discussing how their
representations of the earlier period comment on our own time. Teaching
Method: Class discussion with some lecture. Course requirements: mid-term
exam, 2 papers, final exam.
Readings will include:
(1) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, one of several modern film versions
of the novel, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and possibly Emma Tennant's
Adele or Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair
(2) Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, a modern film version of the novel,
Lin Haire-Sargeant's novel H. (giving Heathcliff's story during the period
when he disappears from Bronte's novel)
(3) Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, a modern film version of the
novel, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
(4) modern "Victorian" novels such as John Fowles' The French
Lieutenant's Woman, A.S. Byatt's Possession, and Margaret Atwood's Alias
Grace.
Professor William Andrews
TR 02:00-03:15
African-American Autobiography. This course will survey key texts in the
evolution of African American autobiography. We will read these texts
as representative of literary and cultural trends in the history of African
American autobiography, as well as for their individual significance.
Figures whose autobiographies we will read include Jarena Lee, Frederick
Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou,
John Wideman, and Lorene Cary.
Professor Ted Leinbaugh
TR 12:30-01:45
English writing from the eighth century to the fifteenth, exclusive of
Chaucer
Professor Chritopher Armitage
MWF 10:00-10:50
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. In the
fall semester, attendance at the NC Shakespeare Festival in High Point
is arranged by the professor. Informed discussion by students is encouraged.
Texts:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5th edn., ed. David Bevington. (Pearson
Longman: 2004) ISBN: 032109333x
Professor Larry Goldberg
MWF 02:00-02:50
We will read from eight to ten representative comedies, histories, and
tragedies and discuss them in class with an eye to their greatness--poetic,
dramaturgic and philosophic. There will be several short analytic papers
and one longer essay, a mid-term and final examination.
Texts:
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Orgel & Braunmuller, eds. (Penguin:2002)
ISBN: 0141000589
Professor Ritchie Kendall
TR 08:00-09:15
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
Professor Alan Dessen
TR 11:00-12:15
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
Professor Alan Dessen
TR 02:00-03:15
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
Professor Reid Barbour
MWF 10:00-10:50
Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Browne, Herrick, Marvell, Dryden, and others.
Texts:
MacLean, Ben Jonson & The Cavalier Poets. (Norton: 1974) ISBN: 0393093085
Herbert, Complete English Poems. (Penguin: 1991) ISBN: 0140423486
Donne, Complete English Poems (Penguin: 1971) ISBN: 0140422099
Marvell, Complete Poems. (Penguin: 1972) ISBN: 0140422137
Kishlansky, Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714. (Penguin: 1996) ISBN:
0140148272
Browne, Major Works. (Penguin: 1977) ISBN: 0140431098
Jonson, Bartholomew Fair. (Norton: 1977) ISBN: 039390038X
Coursepak
Professor Megan Matchinske
TR 12:30-01:45
John Milton was a religious dissident, a political theorist, and a poet.
He wrote at a time in English history when concepts of government and
authority were in the process of active and militant critique, when religious,
domestic and civil spheres were being reimagined and reformulated. We
will study Milton's writings within this highly charged political environment,
as political theory, as religious dissension, as social history, and as
poetry. Students will be asked to consider Milton's poetry and prose accounts
culturally, in terms of the material circumstances of their writing. Teaching
methods: Classtime will be spent in lecture and group discussion of pertinent
texts. Requirements: Weekly writing assignments; two papers (8-10 pages);
final exam.
Texts:
Hughes Merritt, ed. John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. New York:
MacMillan, 1957
Professor Thomas Stumpf
MWF 1:00-1:50
Drama of the period 1660-1775, with special emphasis on the major comic
dramatists: Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Farquhar, Goldsmith, Sheridan.
Professor Jeanne Moskal
TR 11:00-12:15
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
Professor Joseph Viscomi
TR 02:00-03:15
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. ENGLISH
21 is a prerequisite for this section for English majors.
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
Professor Joseph Viscomi
TR 03:30-04:45
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. ENGLISH
21 is a prerequisite for this section for English majors.
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
Professor Allan Life
MWF 11:00-11:50
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: Three 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
Professor Allan Life
MWF 02:00-02:50
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: three 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
Professor Jane Thrailkill
TR 09:30-10:45
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.
Professor Jane Thrailkill
TR 12:30-01:45
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.
Professor Eliza Richards
TR 03:30-04:45
Representative authors from the end of the Civil War to 1930.
Professor Philip Gura
MWF 01:00-01:50
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:
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
Fern, Ruth Hall (Penguin) ISBN: 0140436405
Professor Robert Cantwell
TR 09:30-10:45
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.
Texts:
Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Toni Morrison, Beloved.
Professor Trudier Harris
TR 09:30-10:45
Survey of African American literature from the beginning to 1950, from
the slave narratives through Richard Wright.
Texts:
Call & Response. Hill, ed. (Houghton Mifflin:1998) ISBN: 0395884055
Professor William Andrews
TR 11:00-12:15
This course surveys major writers and classic narratives of African American
literature from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to approximately
1914. Instead of surveying a wide range of writing, we will focus on a
select group of narrative works that have been key to the development
of African American literature. Although a number of black poets, essayists,
and dramatists produced creditable work before World War I, the most lasting
and influential writing by black Americans up to 1914 was in the areas
of autobiographical and fictional narrative. The structure of this course
is historical. The course offers a mix of lecture and discussion, but
the premium will be on discussion.
Texts:
Classic African American Women’s Narratives, ed. William L. Andrews
(Oxford University Press, 2002) ISBN: 0195141350
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (WW Norton,
1997) ISBN: 0393969665
Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (U of Illinois Press, 1987)
ISBN: 0252014103
Charles W. Chesnutt, Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line (Penguin,
2000) ISBN: 0141185023
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (WW Norton, 1996) ISBN: 0393967255
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Penguin,
1990) ISBN: 0140184023
Professor Mae Henderson
TR 12:30-01:45
Survey of African American literature from the beginning to 1950, from
the slave narratives through Richard Wright.
Professor Linda Wagner-Martin
TR 11:00-12:15
Study of American women writers from the mid-nineteenth century to the
present; last book is student's choice from contemporary novels or memoirs,
with the intention of making this course as individual as possible. 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, Rita Dove, Helena Maria Viramontes, Sylvia Plath, Rita Mae
Brown, Edith Wharton, Cathi Hanauer, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Atwood,
and others. Crosslisted with WMST 86. Requirements: two papers (1300-1500
words), quizzes, midterm, final.
Texts:
Holdstein, The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature (Prentice
Hall, 2000), ISBN 0-13-081974-3
Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah (poems)
Sylvia Plath, Ariel (poems)
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Plume, 1994), 0-452-f27305-6
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper, 1990), 0060916508
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (Harper 1990), 0060921145
Cathy Hanauer, My Sister's Bones (Bantam, 1996) 0384317042
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (Bantam, 1998), 038549081x
Professor Fred Hobson
TR 2:00-03:15
This course will treat selected and representative writers of the American
South, beginning in the seventeenth century and continuing through--and
concentrating on--the twentieth. We will examine the origins of southern
literature, consider such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Frederick
Douglass and Kate Chopin in the nineteenth century, and such writers as
William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Ralph Ellison in the twentieth. The
course will attempt to be not only a study of southern literature (concentrating
on fiction) but also southern intellectual history--a study not only of
selected texts but also of the "southern mind," which is to
say, many southern minds. Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion (students
should be prepared to discuss). Requirements: Two exams during the term;
a final examination; one long (approximately 12 pp.) paper; reading quizzes;
one oral report.
Professor Gregg Flaxman
TR 11:00-12:15
In this class we'll approach the question of theory through the lens of
culture and, in particular, what is called "cultural studies."
Hence, the class will begin by considering the meaning of culture itself,
which has changed significantly in modernity, and then assessing the ways
in which culture has been historically conceptualized (by Marxism, by
psychoanlysis, and ultimately by the discourse of cultural studies itself
etc.). In the process, we'll discuss the nature of canon formation, the
question of popular culture, and the shifting paradigms of knowledge that
characterize so-called postmodernism.
Professor Erin Carlston
TR 02:00-03:15
In Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, as Charles Ryder is preparing
to go to Oxford, his cousin warns him to "Beware of the Anglo-Catholics--they're
all sodomites..." This course will be devoted to explicating this
extraordinary claim, as we examine themes of homoeroticism, the appeal
of both High Church ritual and aestheticism, and class privilege in British
men's writing in the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with Oscar
Wilde's early, daring representation of male homosexual double consciousness
in The Picture of Dorian Gray, we will go on to look at how writers like
W.H. Auden, E.M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh confronted changes in gender
roles, class relations and cultural norms precipitated by World War I.
Texts:
W.H. Auden, John Lehmann and Stephen Spender, selected poems.
E.M. Forster, Maurice
Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library
Martin Green, Children of the Sun (selections TBA)
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories
Julian Mitchell, Another Country
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Professor Pamela Cooper
TR 02:00-03:15
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.
Professor William Harmon
MWF 11:00-11:50
Plodding scrutiny of hundreds of complex poems from 1860 to the present,
half British (or Irish), half American. Somewhat more technical detail--grammar,
rhetoric, prosody--than comfort warrants. Teaching method: Monologous
discussion. Requirements: Quizzes, midterm, final (all multiple-choice);
one or two papers.
Texts:
Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, 3rd ed., Norton
(039332429x)
The Poetry of Robert Frost, Owl Pub (805069860)
Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot, Harvest Pr (156332256)
Kathleen Flanagan
MWF 10:00-10:50
This course will focus on works by poets of the modern and contemporary
periods of the twentieth century. We will discuss such movements as Imagism
and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics, and will explore the social, aesthetic, and
personal functions of poetry. Requirements: Midterm and final examinations,
two papers, a class presentation, and a reading notebook.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 3rd ed. 2 volumes.
(Norton: 2003) ISBN: 0-393-97978-4
Professor Nicholas Allen
MW 09:30-10:45
The writing of Seamus Heaney.
'Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it'
Seamus Heaney is a world famous poet, prose writer and dramatist, and
winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. Using our outstanding library
collection of Heaney materials, we will trace Heaney's career from his
first collection, Death of a Naturalist, to the present, exploring the
issues, and controversies, that have marked his career, from his response
to growing violence in the north of Ireland to his belief in art as an
active agent in contemporary society. We will read from his translations
to explore how Heaney understands his own predicament in terms of the
past. And we will examine how the lyric has been transformed to contemporary
use in a writer whose sense of modernity is complex and provoking.
This course will make full use of primary and research materials to hand.
You will be expected to contribute to ongoing debate in class, and will
deliver one research presentation to your colleagues.
Assessment for this course will consist of one long research paper, written
under my supervision. A provisional timetable for drafting and submission
is included below.
Schedule
Week 1 Death of a naturalist
Week 2 Wintering Out
Week 3 North
Week 4 from Finders Keepers, selected prose 1971-2000 (First draft research
paper)
Week 5 Station Island
Week 6 Station Island
Week 7 The Spirit Level
Week 8 from Finders Keepers, selected prose 1971-2000 (Second draft research
paper)
Week 9 Sweeney Astray
Week 10 The cure at Troy
Week 11 Beowulf
Week 12 Beowulf (Third draft research paper)
Week 13 Discussion of issues
Week 14 Discussion of issues (Final submission research paper )
ENGL 095H.001 (20th Century British & American Drama)
Professor Laurence Avery
MWF 12:00-12:50
Developments in Modern Drama. At UNC-CH we like to say people have gone
to school here for more than 200 years, but how many of us know where
on today’s campus the early students attended classes? Interesting
stories stand behind campus developments and numerous campus structures:
buildings, statues, wells, rock walls, even cemeteries. The only problem
with interesting stories is that they have to be known to be enjoyed.
What do you think of when you pass Playmakers Theater, for instance, or
Forest Theater, or go to a play in the Paul Green Theater? Do you know
the stories behind those places well enough to make them part of your
experience here? All three places, as well as other campus sites, testify
to a group of talented people whose writing and theater work in the 1920s
and 1930s brought the world’s attention to North Carolina and its
university. Today the best known of the writers are Thomas Wolfe and Paul
Green, but in the years between the First and Second World Wars they were
just two among a crowd of men and women working within a theatrical enterprise
called the Carolina Playmakers. And the Playmakers organization was the
creation of a quirky but inspirational English teacher known as Proff.
Koch (who toward the end of his career founded the Department of Dramatic
Art). In the seminar we will begin the semester reading short plays by
various writers (Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Lay, Josephina Niggli, and others)
to get an idea about the nature of folk drama characteristic of the Playmakers.
Then we will concentrate on Paul Green, who turned out to be the primary
playwright of the group, but whose work went beyond the professional theater
to include novels, motion picture scripts, and outdoor historical plays
such as The Lost Colony. Throughout the semester we will pay attention
to the social context in which our people worked: the post-war 20s, the
depression-ridden 30s. By the end of the semester, if all goes well, just
a walk across campus will be a different experience for seminar participants.
ENGL 099A.001 (Honors in Creative Writing)
Professor Pam Durban
TR 02:00-03:15
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)
Professor Jim Seay
TR 02:00-03:15
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 160.001 (17th Cent English Lit, Exclud Drama)
Professor Christopher Armitage
MW 03:00-04:15
The course concentrates on writers of the first two-thirds of the 17th
century: Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, sprightly Cavaliers, solemn
Puritans, and purveyors of purple or plain prose. Also discussed will
be the impact on literature of historical, political, and cultural matters
of the age. Informed discussion will be encouraged. Undergraduates will
write several short papers; graduates, fewer but longer and deeper papers.
Midterm and final exams occur. Texts: TBA.
ENGL 181.001 (American Literature to 1900)
Professor Eliza Richards
TR 12:30-01:45
A survey of American authors and literary trends from the seventeenth
through the nineteenth centuries, with emphasis on the works of Franklin,
Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson,
Mark Twain, James, and Crane.