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 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)
Course pack of additional readings
Future Perfect: Science Fictions
and Social Form. "Future
Perfect" is a first year seminar that will investigate the forms
and cultural functions of science fiction. We will read authors as diverse
as William Gibson, Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delany, to name only three
influential practitioners of the genre.
Ethics and Children's Literature: Service Learning. Children's literature cuts to the
heart of the reasons people really read: children turn to books to make
sense of themselves and their world. People turn to ethics when they come
across central questions of existence and conduct they don't know how
to answer. In this class, we will attempt to learn from children, to adopt
an ethical stance toward reading from them: when I enter this book, who
am I? What kind of life is possible in it? The rules of the imaginative
worlds we visit compel us to face up to first questions: in stories in
which the stones beneath our feet can talk, what do we mean by life? The
magic that turns a baby into a pig insists that we ponder-not just "Who
am I?" but-what we mean by a self at all. We won't come up with answers
to particular ethical debates-we will look at the way that ethical problems
are formed. How can children's stories help us negotiate the difficult
questions of self and other in the struggle to be human?
This course is an Ueltschi Service Learning course, so students enrolled
in it will do a thirty hour service learning component, working with children
in the schools, as part of our inquiry into ethics and children's literature.
These placements will be facilitated by A.P.P.L.E.S. A typical project
would include a couple of hours a week tutoring elementary students with
reading, or writing, or in English as a Second Language. In class, every
class member will find the best way for him or her to reflect on and organize
this service work into a final independent project: in the past, students
have done multimedia presentations (including making videos, recording
music, creating Web sites, or using Powerpoint), written stories, devised
a curriculum with sequenced prompts and class plans, done illustrations,
conducted oral histories.
Texts include: fairy tales and nursery rhymes, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan,
the Pooh books, Tolkien's The Hobbit,
The Wind in the Willows, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
and some selections that help us to think about children and service learning:
excerpts from Robert Coles, Herbert Kohl, The
Discipline of Hope, etc.
Teaching Method: interaction, process, and creativity: discussion, question
and answer, group work. Weekly service learning work and short papers
(1-2 pp.), approximately ten in all, reflecting on the service learning,
though students will have opportunities to choose other topics as well:
position papers on controversial questions, autobiographical meditations
(for instance: "tell us a memory in which stories seemed magical
to you"), or retelling classic tales. Final portfolio: 4 of the weekly
papers and a longer independent project that summarizes and captures the
service learning experience.
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.
ENGL 006M...005...First Year Seminar...
Courtly Love--Then and Now. How have ideas about courtship changed between the
twelfth-century "Rules of Love" penned by Andrew the Chaplain
and 1995's The Rules: Time-Tested
Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right? Just what was "courtly
love"? And how has it influenced our own views of romance? Our readings
will include literature which defined this influential concept, from The Art of Love by the Latin writer Ovid; to medieval Arthurian romances
and troubador lyrics; to Renaissance sonnets and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. We'll trace the influence
of these traditions in works by more recent writers such as Tennyson and
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and in contemporary films, cartoons,
and advertisements. In the process we'll be exploring the history of Western
thought about gender relations, and the political and economic implications
of our ideas about beauty, sex, and love.
Texts:
Ondaatje, English Patient. (Vintage:
1996) ISBN: 0679745203
Tennyson, Idylls of the King.
(Penguin: 1989) ISBN: 0140422536
Ovid, The Art of Love. (Indiana
UP: 1957) ISBN: 0253200024
Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Reprint Ed. (Viking Pr: 1981) ISBN: 0140707026
Capellanus, Art of Courtly Love.
(Columbian UP: 1990) ISBN: 0231073054
Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet.
ISBN: 0140707018
Bedier, Romance of Tristan &
Iseult. Reissue Ed. (Vintage: 1994) ISBN: 0679750169
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
(Scribner’s) ISBN: 068416325x)
ENGL 020...001...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Fann...MWF...08:00-08:50
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.
ENGL 020...002...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Swezey...MWF...09:00-09:50
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.
ENGL 020...003...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Stumpf...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.
ENGL 020...004...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Floyd-Wilson...MW...02:00-03:15
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.
ENGL 020...005...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Armitage...MF...03:00-04:15
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.
ENGL 020...006...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Wittig...TR...08:00-09:15
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 the most recent offering of this course 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...007...British Literature: Chaucer to Pope...Fairfield...TR...03:30-04:45
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.
ENGL 021...001...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Horan...MWF...08:00-08:50
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.
ENGL 021...002...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Spurlock...MWF...11:00-11:50
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.
ENGL 021...003...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Staff...Hayes...01:00-01:50
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.
ENGL 021...004...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Cooper,
P...TR...08:00-09:15
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.
ENGL 021...005...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Reinert...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.
ENGL 021...006...British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot...Rajan...TR...11:00-12:15
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.
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.
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 022...001...Literature and Cultural Diversity...Flanagan...MWF...01:00-01:50
This class will explore literature
from Pacific Islands that are former or present United States territories,
as well as literature written by Pacific Islanders with American connections
and experiences. We will read writing from
Texts:
Robert Barclay, Melal: A Novel of
the Pacific. (
Sia Figiel, Where We Once Belonged.
(Distributed Arts: 1999) ISBN: 1-885030-27-4
Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters.
(Penguin: 1990) ISBN: 0-14-014904-X
John Kneubuhl, Think of a Garden
and Other Plays. (U. of Hawai'i: 1997) ISBN: 0-8248-1814-8
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, Alchemies
of Distance. (Tinfish: 2001) ISBN: 982-02-0321-X
Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Blu's Hanging.
(
ENGL 022...002...Literature and Cultural Diversity...Coleman...TR...09:30-10:45
Studies in African American,
Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, Anglo-Indian,
Texts:
Ellison, Invisible
Morrison, Beloved. (ISBN: 0452264464)
Lauter, Heath Anthology of African
American Literature, Vol 2. (ISBN: 061810920X)
Erdrich, Love Medicine. (ISBN:
0060975547)
Faulkner, Sound & the Fury.
(ISBN: 0679732241)
ENGL 023...002...Introduction to Fiction...Wymer...MWF...09:00-09:50
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen,
Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.
ENGL 023...003...Introduction to Fiction...Kennedy, P...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). Two themes emphasized this semester
will be empathy and self-knowledge.
Texts:
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
. 2nd ed.(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)
ENGL 023...004...Introduction to Fiction...Harper...MWF...01:00-01:50
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen,
Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.
ENGL 023...005...Introduction to Fiction...Kennedy, P...MWF...01:00-01:50
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). Two themes emphasized this semester
will be empathy and self-knowledge.
Texts:
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
. 2nd ed.(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)
ENGL 023...006...Introduction to Fiction...Westerman...MWF...02:00-02:50
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen,
Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.
ENGL 023...007...Introduction to Fiction...Trippensee...TR...08:00-09:15
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen,
Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.
ENGL 023...008...Introduction to Fiction...Crystall...TR...11:00-12:15
Reading Graphic Novels: Visual Literacy
and the Art of Remembering.
The graphic novel is a relatively new literary genre, and, like other
genres of literature, it relies on memory to reconstruct events and on
certain assumptions about making meaning through narrative that is the
subject of this class. Through the analysis of several visual texts we
will question how meaning is made through images, specifically through
the juxtaposition and framing of images. We will explore the relationship
between images and language and examine how graphic novels teach us to
read the visual world we inhabit. Is seeing a socially circumscribed phenomenon?
Is what we see and how we understand and interpret the world limited or
shaped by socially and culturally specific meanings? How then do we understand
ourselves in relation to the world?
This is a discussion-based class. There is a midterm exam, a final exam,
several short papers, and group presentations. The reading list includes:
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art;
Maus, A Survivor's Tale; Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima;
ENGL 023...009...Introduction to Fiction...Stapleton...TR...11:00-12:15...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...010...Introduction to Fiction...Crystall...TR...02:00-03:15
Reading Graphic Novels: Visual Literacy
and the Art of Remembering.
The graphic novel is a relatively new literary genre, and, like other
genres of literature, it relies on memory to reconstruct events and on
certain assumptions about making meaning through narrative that is the
subject of this class. Through the analysis of several visual texts we
will question how meaning is made through images, specifically through
the juxtaposition and framing of images. We will explore the relationship
between images and language and examine how graphic novels teach us to
read the visual world we inhabit. Is seeing a socially circumscribed phenomenon?
Is what we see and how we understand and interpret the world limited or
shaped by socially and culturally specific meanings? How then do we understand
ourselves in relation to the world?
This is a discussion-based class. There is a midterm exam, a final exam,
several short papers, and group presentations. The reading list includes:
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art;
Maus, A Survivor's Tale; Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima;
ENGL 023...011...Introduction to Fiction...Galow...TR...03:30-04:45
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen,
Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.
ENGL 023W...001...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Moose...MW...02:00-03:15
Prerequisite to English 34 and
other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing short
fiction. Close study of the craft of the short story and novella through
a wide range of readings, with emphasis on technical strategies. Class
discussion of student exercises and stories.
ENGL 023W...002...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Pizzolatto...MW...03:30-04:45
Prerequisite to English 34 and
other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing short
fiction. Close study of the craft of the short story and novella through
a wide range of readings, with emphasis on technical strategies. Class
discussion of student exercises and stories.
ENGL 023W...003...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Naumoff...TR...02:00-03:15
Prerequisite to English 34 and
other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing short
fiction. Close study of the craft of the short story and novella through
a wide range of readings, with emphasis on technical strategies. Class
discussion of student exercises and stories.
ENGL 023W...004...Introduction to Fiction Writing...Wallace...TR...03:30-04:45
Prerequisite to English 34 and
other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing short
fiction. Close study of the craft of the short story and novella through
a wide range of readings, with emphasis on technical strategies. Class
discussion of student exercises and stories.
ENGL 024...001...Contemporary Literature...Ho...MWF...02:00-02:50
This course will provide an
introduction to contemporary literature, in particular prose narratives
such as novels, short stories, and essays, by focusing on themes of “passing”
in all senses of the word--movement, transition, death, racial masquerade,
and any other connotation available for consideration. Texts/films under
consideration include stories such as Tim O’Brien’s “The
Things They Carried,” Raymond Carver’s “A Small Good
Thing,” Liliana Heker’s “The Stolen Party,” and
Leslea Newman’s “A Letter to Harvey Milk,” and longer
works like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Michael Ondaatje’s
The English Patient, Danzy Senna’s
Caucasia, Dave Eggers’
A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking
Genius, and Paisley Rekdal’s The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In.
ENGL 024...002...Contemporary Literature...Kirkpatrick...TR...08:00-09:15
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation
ENGL 024...004...Contemporary Literature...McGuff...TR...03:30-04:45
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation
ENGL 025...002...Introduction to Poetry...Brignac...MWF...01:00-01:50
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.
ENGL 025...003...Introduction to Poetry...Beres...TR...02:00-03:15
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 025W...001...Introduction to Poetry Writing...Chitwood...MW...02:00-03:15
Prerequisite to English 34P
and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing poems.
Close study of a wide range of published poems and of the basic terms
and techniques of poetry. Composition and discussion and revision of a
number of original poems.
ENGL 025W...002...Introduction to Poetry Writing...Chitwood...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 poems and of the basic terms
and techniques of poetry. Composition and discussion and revision of a
number of original poems.
ENGL 025W...003...Introduction to Poetry Writing...McFee...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 poems and of the basic terms
and techniques of poetry. Composition and discussion and revision of a
number of original poems.
ENGL 025W...004...Introduction to Poetry Writing...Seay...TR...02:00-03:15
Prerequisite to English 34P
and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing poems.
Close study of a wide range of published poems and of the basic terms
and techniques of poetry. Composition and discussion and revision of a
number of original poems.
ENGL 026...001...Introduction to Drama...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:
Shakespeare, Much
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. (
Aeschylus, Oresteia. (Farrar,
Straus, & Giroux:1999) ISBN: 0374527059
A.R. Gurney, Another Antigone.
(Dramatists Play Service) ISBN: 0822200511
Sam Shepard, Buried Child. Revised
ed. (Dramatists Play Service) ISBN: 082221511x
ENGL 026...002...Introduction to Drama...Ashworth-King...TR...03:30-04:45
Freshman and sophomore elective,
open to juniors and seniors. Drama of the Greek, Renaissance, and Modern
periods.
ENGL 027...001...Studies In Literature...Curtain...MW...02:30-03:45
Study of a single writer, group,
movement, theme, or period. Topics vary by instructor.
ENGL 028...002...Major American Authors...Dowdy...MWF...10:00-10:50
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.
ENGL 028...003...Major American Authors...Kowalski...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.
ENGL 028...004...Major American Authors...Snyder...MWF...01:00-01:50
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.
ENGL 028...005...Major American Authors...Cadle...TR...08:00-09:15
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.
ENGL 028...006...Major American Authors...Weber...TR...02:00-03:15
We will study selections of
poetry, fiction, and drama from major American authors including Walt
Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes,
Edith Wharton, Eugene O’Neill, and Toni Morrison. Course format:
some lecture, extensive discussion. Requirements: reading quizzes, essays,
midterm and final.
Texts:
The Portable Faulkner. (Viking
Press: 1977) ISBN: 0140150188
Langston Hughes Reader. (Braziller:
1981) ISBN: 0807600571
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady.
(Signet) ISBN: 0451525973
Eugene O'Neill, Four Plays.
(Signet: 1998) ISBN: 0451526678
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome.
(
William Faulkner, Unvanquished.
(Random: 1990) ISBN: 0679736522
Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems.
(
Walt Whitman, Selected Poems.
(
Toni Morrison,
ENGL 028...007...Major American Authors...Weber...TR...03:30-04:45
We will study selections of
poetry, fiction, and drama from major American authors including Walt
Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes,
Edith Wharton, Eugene O’Neill, and Toni Morrison. Course format:
some lecture, extensive discussion. Requirements: reading quizzes, essays,
midterm and final.
Texts:
The Portable Faulkner. (Viking
Press: 1977) ISBN: 0140150188
Langston Hughes Reader. (Braziller:
1981) ISBN: 0807600571
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady.
(Signet) ISBN: 0451525973
Eugene O'Neill, Four Plays.
(Signet: 1998) ISBN: 0451526678
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome.
(
William Faulkner, Unvanquished.
(Random: 1990) ISBN: 0679736522
Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems.
(
Walt Whitman, Selected Poems.
(
Toni Morrison,
ENGL 029...001...Honors: Types of Literature...Kendall...TR...08:00-09:15
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. A
study of some of the distinguishing features of drama and epic through
the close reading of characteristic examples of each genre. We will pay
special attention to the cultural uses to which these genres have been
put. In particular, we will look at the ways drama and epic imagine differences
in class, gender, age, and race and negotiate the conflicts that arise
between those who command and those who follow. Topics will include: rulers
and subjects (Shakespeare, The Tempest and Beckett, Endgame); husbands and wives (Middleton,
The Changeling and Ibsen, A Doll’s House); fathers and sons
(O’Neill, Desire Under the
Elms and Wilson, Fences);
and masters and servants (Congreve, The
Way of the World and Chekhov, The
Cherry Orchard). We will further examine two of the great divides
of theater—comedy vs. tragedy and naturalism vs. symbolism—and
question whether any of these categories ever appears unalloyed with its
opposite. We will also read Virgil, The Aeneid and Milton, Paradise Lost with careful attention to
the way writers adapt the work of their predecessors even as they challenge
and revise the methods and assumptions that drive that work. Because it
is crucial to see and hear plays, not only read them, we will attend two
local performances during the term.
ENGL 029W...001...Honors: Intro to Creative Writing (Fiction)...Gingher...TR...02:00-03:15
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. Writing
intensive. Early short assignments emphasize elements of dramatic scene
with subsequent written practice in point-of-view, dialogue, characterization,
and refinement of style. Assigned short stories from textbook with in-depth
analysis of technique, craft, and literary merit. Students will write
and revise one full story which will be duplicated for all class members
and criticized by instructor and class. The short story will be approximately
10--15 pages long. Revision in lieu of final exam. The course is informal
but stringent; students may be asked to write each class meeting. Vigorous
class participation in workshop is expected. Required texts. This course
(or English 23W) serves as a prerequisite for other courses in the fiction
sequence of the creative writing program (Engl 34, 35, 99).
ENGL 029W...002...Honors: Intro to Creative Writing (Poetry)...Shapiro...TR...09:30-10:45
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. This
course will explore the many pleasures and challenges of writing good
poetry. Our focus will be the regular writing and revising of your original
poems, and the in-class workshopping of some of those poems, but we will
also spend plenty of time reading and discussing exemplary poetry from
the past and present, mastering basic terms and forms and techniques,
listening to poems read aloud, and doing whatever else will help us become
better poets. We will work hard and have fun. Among the course requirements:
several textbooks; a midterm exam and a final "term poem"; other
written exercises; a memorization and recitation assignment; and (most
important of all) up to ten original poems and multiple revisions. This
introductory course serves as the prerequisite for later poetry-writing
courses in the Creative Writing Program.
ENGL 033...001...Scientific Writing...Jack...TR...11:00-12:15
This course teaches principles
of scientific and technical writing for students majoring in the sciences,
or for students in other majors who are interested in professional writing.
Students will learn effective ways to define scientific terms, principles,
and concepts; to describe equipment, processes, and procedures; to summarize
and analyze information; and to present information using principles of
visual design and layout. Assignments will require students to write for
both specialist and non-specialist audiences, including at least one document
written for a local audience as part of the APPLES service learning program.
Possible assignments include reports for decision-making, progress reports,
informational brochures, and websites.
Texts:
0-321-11204-0)
ENGL 034...001...Intermediate Fiction Writing...
Prerequisite, English 23 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.
ENGL 034...002...Intermediate Fiction Writing...Athas...TR...02:00-03:15
Prerequisite, English 23 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.
ENGL 034...003...Intermediate Fiction Writing...Naumoff...TR...03:30-04:45
Prerequisite, English 23 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.
ENGL 034P...001...Intermediate Poetry Writing...Seay...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 poetry, with an emphasis
on regular writing and revising.
ENGL 034P...002...Intermediate Poetry Writing...McFee...TR...03:30-04:45
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 poetry, with an emphasis
on regular writing and revising.
ENGL 035...001...Advanced Fiction Writing...Kenan...MW...02:00-03:15
Prerequisite, English 34 and
permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A continuation of the
Intermediate workshop with emphasis on the short story, novella, and novel.
Extensive discussion of student work in class and in conferences with
instructor.
ENGL 036...001...English Grammar...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
ENGL 036...002...English Grammar...Lindemann...TR...02:00-03:15
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 traditional,
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: 0321089367
ENGL 039...001...Writing Children’s Fiction...Moose...MW...11:00-12:15
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 042...001...Movie Criticism...Taylor,
T...TR...02:00-03:50
Fills aesthetic perspective.
ENGL 043...001...The English Novel...Thompson...TR...08:00-09:15
This class is a survey of the
development of the British novel, from its origins in the eighteenth-century
up through the middle of the nineteenth-century. We will read words by
Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Austen, Brontë and Dickens,
to ask why the novel focuses so obsessively on courtship and marriage.
Teaching Methods: Discussion with the occasional lecture. Requirements:
2 papers, a collective midterm and a final exam. Texts: Daniel Defoe,
Roxana; Samuel Richardson, Pamela;
Frances Burney, Evelina; Jane
Austen, Emma; Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations; Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea.
ENGL 047W...001...Playwriting...Simpson...MW...02:00-03:15
A course in scripting a performable
one-act play -- with a number of dialogue exercises (exchanges and scenes
read in class) leading up to a playscript.
ENGL 047W...002...Stylistics...Gingher...TR...03:30-04:45
Restricted to Creative Writing
minors. Permission of instructor required. A course for students who want
to undertake the study of literary forms outside the sequence of fiction
or poetry workshops. Close study of language and grammar as tools of style.
Numerous short exercises. Collaborative development and production of
a language-arts show based on original exercises.
ENGL 049...001...Studies In Literary Topics...O’Shaughnessey...MWF...01:00-01:50
Environmantal Lit. 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.
Texts:
Ecology of a Cracker. ISBN:
4571312471
Thoreau, Walden. ISBN: 0486284956
and others
ENGL 049B...001...Studies In Literary Topics...Matchinske...MWF...01:00-01:50
Shapes of Privacy. Assuming at base the essential alterity of the early
modern private, we will, over the course of this semester, try to come
to terms with that difference and to gauge its various permutations as
ideas of privacy shift from early in the 17th century to late, from one
form of writing to another. Participants in this seminar will read a wide
range of texts and genres that focus on intimacy - from diaries, memoirs,
"characters," and letters to essays, legacies, apologies and
closet drama. We will engage recent critical debates in genre theory,
historiography, and gender studies, and we will look as well to key moments
in
Texts:
Dairy of Samuel Pepys, Richard
Le Gallienne, ed., Modern Library, 2001
Her Own Life, Elspeth Graham,
ed., Routledge, 1989
The Blazing World and Other Writings,
Kate Lilley, ed., Penguin Classics, 1994
The Tragedy of Mariam, Barry
Weller, ed., U of California P, 1994
Student Stores Copy Packet
ENGL 049E...001...Studies In Literary Topics...Flora...TR...03:30-04:45
The American West in Film and Literature. Through classic films of the West (Shane, Stagecoach, The Ox-Bow Incident,
Jeremiah Johnson, McCabe and Mrs. Miller) and the texts behind
them, students will explore the birth of myths that have helped shape
the American psyche. In these and other works, they will investigate depictions
of the Native American, the Mexican, the Chinese, of women and children.
They will have the opportunity to consider the emergence of Buffalo Bill
and John Wayne as national icons, and the reasons that pronouncements
of the death of the Western always prove premature.
Texts:
Larry McMurtry, Horseman, Pass By.
(S&S) ISBN: 068485385x
Jack Schaefer, Shane. (Bantam)
ISBN: 0553271105
Vardis Fisher,
Walter VanTilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident. (Modern Lib)
ISBN: 0375757023
Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through
It. (Univ of
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men.
(Viking) ISBN: 0140186425
Jack Scheafer, Monte Walsh.
(U of
ENGL 049E...002...Studies In Literary Topics...Ho...MWF...11:00-11:50
ENGL 049H...001...Studies in Literary Topics (HONORS)...Richards...TR...11:00-12:15
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. This course affords an opportunity for the study of
nineteenth-century American poetry from historical and formal perspectives.
We will trace shifting artistic practices and cultural engagements of
poets from William Cullen Bryant to Stephen Crane, paying particular attention
to the work of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. The course will explore
the development of African American and women's traditions in poetry;
poets' engagements with important historical events (westward expansion,
Indian removal policies, abolition, and the Civil War), and varying definitions
of what it means to be a poet in a democracy. The course seeks to broaden
understanding of poetry's historical and cultural role in the nineteenth
century; to develop close reading skills that are crucial for interpreting
and appreciating poetry; and to strengthen critical writing and thinking
skills. Poets include: Bryant, Crane, Dickinson, Emerson, Horton, Longfellow,
Melville, Osgood, Poe, Reese, Sigourney, Whitman.
Course prerequisites: two literature courses or junior/senior status.
Books:
1.Whitman: Leaves of Grass and Other
Writings Norton Critical Edition (2002) ISBN 039397496
2. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Little, Brown and Company (1960) ISBN 0316184136
All other poems will be available through the Blackboard course website.
ENGL 049J...001...Jewish-American Literature and Culture
of the 20th Centurty ...Carlston...TR...12:30-01:45
This course will examine some
of the major factors and influences that shaped Jewish American literature
and culture in the twentieth century. We will focus in particular on questions
about Jewish identity: what is Jewishness—a faith, a race, a nation?
How have patterns of immigration shaped Jewish experience in the
Texts:
Art Spiegelman, Maus a Survivors
Tale: My Father Bleeds History/And Here My Troubles Began/Boxed set.
Paperback. Publisher: Pantheon Books; Boxed edition (November 1993). ISBN:
0679748407
Philip Roth, Goodbye Columbus.
Publisher: Vintage Books; Reissue edition (January 1994). ISBN: 0679748261
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer.
Publisher: Penguin
Grace Paley, Later the Same Day.
Publisher: Viking Press; Reprint edition (April 1986). ISBN: 0140086412
Anzia Yezierska, The Bread-Givers.
Publisher: Persea Books; 3rd edition (August 1, 2003).ISBN: 0892552905
Tony Kushner, Angels in
Tony Kushner, Angels in
ENGL 052...001...Chaucer...Wittig...TR...11:00-12:15
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).
Web Page for the most recent offering of this course is still available
at: 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...16th Cent English Lit...Wolfe...TR...09:30-10:45
Poetry and prose of representative
authors, including More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Bacon, and Shakespeare's
nondramatic poetry.
ENGL 058...001...Shakespeare...Floyd-Wilson...MW...11:00-11:50
An introduction to Shakespeare's
drama, offering lectures on ten or so representative comedies, tragedies,
romances, and at least one history play. Recitation sections provided
for discussion. Mid-term examination, final, and two essays.
Text:
The Norton Shakespeare, gen.
ed. Stephen Greenblatt (Norton, 1997), ISBN: 0-393-97087-6
ENGL 058...003...Shakespeare...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
ENGL 058...004...Shakespeare...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
Texts:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare,
5th edn., ed. David Bevington. (Pearson Longman: 2004) ISBN: 032109333x
ENGL 060...001...Seventeenth-Century English Literature...Matchinske...MWF...11:00-11:50
In this course, students will
interrogate the social, historical, and representational dimensions of
17th-century literature and culture in
Students will be asked to consider poetry and prose accounts culturally,
in terms of the material circumstances of their writing. Teaching Method:
Classtime will be spent in lecture and group discussion of pertinent texts.
Requirements: Weekly Writing Assignments, Two Papers (8-10 pages), Final
Exam.
Texts:
Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings
by Seventeeth-Century Englishwomen. Ed. Elspeth Graham.
Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of
Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse. Ed. Germaine Greer.
Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed.
Alastair Fowler.
Student Stores Copy Packet.
ENGL 064...001...Milton...Barbour...MWF...01:00-01:50
The works of
ENGL 072...002...The Chief Romantic Poets...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
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...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
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...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
ENGL 078...001...English Literature, 1870-1910...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
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...Thrailkill...TR...02:00-03:15
Imagining
Texts:
Norton Anthology of American Literature,
Vol. I.
ENGL 080...002...American Literature to 1865...Thrailkill...TR...03:30-04:45
Imagining
Texts:
Norton Anthology of American Literature,
Vol. I.
ENGL 081...001...American Literature from 1865 to 1930...Flora...TR...09:30-10:45
This course will study American
Literature from the Civil War to 1930, highlighting the American experience
between World War I and World War II. Teaching methods: Lecture, discussion,
performance. Requirements: 2 one hour examinations, 2 critical papers,
and a final examination.
Texts:
The American Tradition in Literature:
Vol 2. 10th ed. (McGraw Hill: 2002) ISBN: 0072491566
Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women.
(Scribner: 1997) ISBN: 0684825864
Will Cather, The Professor’s
House. (Vintage) ISBN: 0-394-71913i
ENGL 082...001...American Literature from 1930 to present...Carlston...TR...03:30-04:45
This course will examine some
of the major factors and influences that shaped U.S. American literature,
especially though not exclusively prose fiction, in the twentieth century.
We will focus in particular on questions about national identity—what
is the
Texts:
The Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska.
(Persea Bks:1999) ISBN: 0892550147
White Noise, Don Delillo. (Penguin:1998)
ISBN: 0140274987
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner.
(Vintage:1990) ISBN: 0679762179
On the Road, Jack Kerouac. (Penguin:1976)
ISBN: 0140042598
The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery
O'Connor. (FS&G:1960) ISBN: 0374505241
La Maravilla, Alfredo Vea. (Plume:1994)
ISBN: 0452271606
The Living Is Easy, Dorothy
West. (Feminist Pr:1996) ISBN: 1558611479
Native Son, Richard Wright.
(Harper:1989) ISBN: 0060809779
Angels in America: Part I: Millennium
Approaches, Tony Kushner. (Theatre Communications Group:1993) ISBN:
1159360615
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia
on National Themes-Part II: Perestroika, Tony Kushner. (Theatre Communications
Group:1994) ISBN: 0559360739
ENGL 083...001...The American Novel...Gura...MWF...11:00-11:50
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
ENGL 084...002...African American Literature to 1950...Fisher...TR...12:30-01:45
ENGL 085...001...African American Lit from 1950 to present...Coleman...TR...02:00-03:15
Survey of African American literature
from 1950 to the present, Ellison, Baldwin, Jones, Brooks, Hayden, Gaines,
and others.
This course will focus on representations of space and place in the fiction,
memoir, essay, and poetry of several contemporary women writers of the
U.S. South. We will consider how space and place are configured and experienced
in their works and how these texts reshape our imaginative encounters
as readers with questions of history, identity, location, and transformation.
Assignments include a series of eight short "provocation questions"
on the literary texts to be shared with the class, brief summaries of
five essays on space and place, one paper, and a take-home examination.
Readings include:
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Ellen Douglas, Can't Quit You, Baby
Tayari Jones, Leaving Atlanta
Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
Brenda Marie Osbey, All Saints
Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies
Margaret Walker, This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems
Five essays on the multiple configurations of "space," such
as "home" and "travel," place and displacement, social
relations and historical intervention, identity and imagination.
ENGL 088...001...Southern American Literature...Irons...TR...12:30-01:45
An introduction to the Southern
Literary Renascence of the twentieth century: poems and fiction by Faulkner,
Wolfe, Wright, Toomer, O'Connor, Percy, Styron, Jarrell, etc. Fills aesthetic
perspective.
ENGL 088H...001...Contemporary North Carolina Literature
(HONORS)...Kenan...MW...11:00-12:15
What makes North Carolina such
an unusually fruitful home for writers? Who are those writers and what
have they produced? In this course, we will study some of the novels,
short stories, and poems produced by North Carolina writers during recent
decades, the richest time in the rich literary history of our state. The
course will involve a combination of lectures, discussions, class visits
by some of the authors. Requirements: Two papers; midterm and final examinations.
Selected list of authors to be studied (subject to change): Kaye Gibbons,
Allan Gurganus, Doris Betts, Clyde Edgerton, Tim McClaurin, Jill McCorkle,
Michael Chitwood.
ENGL 090B...001...Feminist Theory & Literary Criticism...Henderson...TR...11:00-12:15
Black Feminist Criticism and Theory. This course will examine the critical/theoretical discourses
that have emerged in response to the literary and cultural productions
of black women since the 1970s. Black feminist criticism and theory emerged
in response to the exclusionary critical and theoretical practices associated
with white feminism and black nationalism. Although previously ignored
or subsumed under the mutually exclusive categories of gender and/or race,
black women have emerged as complex subjects and their literary and cultural
productions have become critical sites of interrogation for issues of
class, race, gender, sexuality, and nation. We will critically examine
selected writings that have contributed to the construction of the black
feminist critique, ranging from the project of reclamation and gynocentricism
to the introduction of "womanism" and "womanist theory"
to the emergence of poststructuralism and diasporic black feminisms.
Requirements: In addition to midterm and final exams, students are expected
to participate in group oral presentations, submit two short analytical
essays, and write a bibliographic essay or
research paper.
Recommended and Required Readings: Selected essays and texts by Alice
Walker, Cheryl Wall, Mae Henderson, Hazel Carby, Patricia Hill Collins,
Deborah McDowell, Ann DuCille, Carol Boyce Davis, Barbara Smith, Barbara
Christian, Michele Wallace, Valerie Smith, Nellie McKay, Mary Helen Washington,
Hortense Spillers, Wahneema Lubiano, Claudia Tate, Shirley Anne Williams,
Karla Holloway, and others.
ENGL 091...001...British Novel from 1870 to WW II...Cooper...MWF...11:00-11:50
Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence,
Cary, Greene, and others.
Texts:
Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
& Other Stories. (Dover:1994) ISBN: 0486280519.
Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau.
(Dover:1996) ISBN: 0486290271.
Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
(OxfordUP:1998) ISBN: 0192833626.
Forster, Howard’s End.
(Random:1989) ISBN: 0679722556.
Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man. (Penguin:1992) ISBN: 0142437344.
Conrad, Heart of Darkness. (Norton:1988)
3rd ed. ISBN: 0393955524.
Waugh, Vile Bodies. (Little
Brown: 1930) ISBN: 0316926116.
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. (Harcourt
Brace:1953) ISBN: 0156628708.