ENGL 006M 001 First Year Seminar Lensing 09:30-10:45 TR
The Sonnet. The sonnet, a poem of fourteen lines, has had a powerful appeal
to poets in the English language from the time of Chaucer to the present
day. Its brevity and apparent simplicity are equally appealing to its
readers who might otherwise feel uncertain and hesitant about reading
poetry in general. The course will examine the range and diversity of
the sonnet within the American and British traditions and its adaptation
to social, political, religious, and mythical themes. Students will be
asked to write a couple of sonnets and perhaps put some to musical voice
or instrument in performance. Local and regional poets who have written
sonnets will be invited to the class to read and discuss their work. Scorn
not the sonnet," wrote William Wordsworth (who wrote over 500 sonnets).
Such counsel we'll take to heart and perhaps come to love it as we!
ENGL 006M 002 First Year Seminar Harris 09:30-10:45 TR
Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Legacy in African American Literature. This
first year seminar will focus on the imaginative ways in which African
American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King and his philosophy
into their poems, plays, and novels. The course will tie together history,
politics, the Civil Rights Movement, and literature in an exploration
of King's impact upon the nation and particularly upon the South. Students
will explore the transformation of a legendary figure from history to
literature, which will in turn give them opportunities to examine the
function and purpose of literature. Can it heal the wounds of assassination?
What are the consequences of disappointment, hatred, and other strong
emotions becoming impetuses to creativity? What is the connection between
politics and art? Can art transcend politics? Indeed, do we even want
it to do so? Students will also consider for whom literary works are created
and what they require/expect of the reader. Works about King and his philosophy
will therefore become the centerpieces of a course designed to enable
students to examine the nature of literary production and the judgements/inherited
values we bring to reading.
ENGL 006M 003 First Year Seminar Curtain 02:00-03:15 TR
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. Key questions raised by science fiction include, What does
it mean to be human? How do we imagine our culture and society to be other
than it is? What roles do social categories such as race, gender, class,
and sexuality play in our descriptions of the future; and to what extent
are these ways of categorizing humans important for making this literature
"realistic"? How do we re-imagine human evolutionary biology and to what
purpose? "Future Perfect" will use films, books, and computer-based fictional
spaces (such as text-based on-line communities/the Internet, and video
games) to addres
ENGL 020 001 British Literature: Chaucer to Pope Incorvati 10:00-10:50
MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.),
7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020 002 British Literature: Chaucer to Pope Heller 11:00-11:50
MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.),
7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020 003 British Literature: Chaucer to Pope Incorvati 12:00-12:50
MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.),
7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020 004 British Literature: Chaucer to Pope Barbour 09:00-09:50
MWF
A survey of British literature from Chaucer to Swift. Texts: The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.), 7th ed. (Norton:
2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 020 005 British Literature: Chaucer to Pope Jordan 02:00-03:15
TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I. Abrams (ed.),
7th ed. (Norton: 2000) ISBN: 0393974871
ENGL 021 001 British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot Joffe 10:00-10:50
MWF
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021 003 British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot Weber 11:00-12:15
TR
We will study British fiction, poetry, and drama for the Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern periods. We will study each author in the context of his or
her era's cultural, historical, and literary/aesthetic developments. Format:
Some lecture, extensive discussion. Requirements: Two essays, oral presentation,
a midterm and final exam. Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature,
Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice (Dover) ISBN: 0486284735 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway.
(Harvest:1990) ISBN: 0156628708
ENGL 021 004 British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot Reinert 09:30-10:45
TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021 005 British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot Cash 08:00-09:15
TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021 006 British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot Weldon 02:00-03:15
TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
(Norton:1999) ISBN: 0393960692
ENGL 021 007 British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot Kirkpatrick 03:30-04:45
TR
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. (Penguin:1971)
ISBN: 0140434976
ENGL 022 001 Literature and Cultural Diversity Crystall, E 03:30-04:45 TR
ENGL 022 002 Literature and Cultural Diversity Greene 12:30-01:45
TR
The course will be a comparison of American ethnic identities-Native American,
Anglo-American, Asian American, African American, and Latino. We will
examine subject formation in representative fictions by members of these
ethnic groups and we will explore how the "American experience" helps
configure form and meaning in each group's literature, noting similarities
and differences between and among the groups and the literatures. We will
explore the interaction of collective memory and the creative imagination,
race and region, gender and genre in the literary representation of American
ethnic identities. Teaching methods: Class discussions supplemented by
lectures will be the teaching format. Requirements: Three papers (5-7
pages each), a mid-course exam, and a final exam will be required. Texts:
(Each student will be required to read five of the following novels) N.
Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn. (Harper:1968) ISBN: 0060916338 Louise
Erdrich, Tracks. (Harper:1988) ISBN: 0060972459 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby. (Simon & Schuester:1992) ISBN: 0684801523 Kay Gibbons, Ellen
Foster. (Random House:1997) ISBN: 0375703055 Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before
Dying. (Random House:1994) ISBN: 0375702709 Paule Marshall, Praisesong
for the Widow. (Penguin:1983) ISBN: 0452267110
ENGL 023 001 Introduction to Fiction Kennedy, P 10:00-10:50 MWF
This course is an introduction to the reading of prose fiction. It includes
analysis of selected short stories and novels and the study of elements
of fiction such as point of view, theme, characterization, and setting.
A thematic focus this semester will be concepts of home and relationships
between generations. Teaching method: Class discussion, occasional group
work, occasional short lecture. Requirements: Two papers (5 pages each),
midterm, final. Texts: 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (Bedford/St.
Martin's) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (World's Classics-Oxford) Mary
Shelley, Frankenstein (Penguin) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Collier/MacMillan) William Faulkner,
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical, 2nd ed) Toni Morrison, Song of
Solomon (Plume/Penguin)
ENGL 023 002 Introduction to Fiction Kennedy, P 11:00-11:50 MWF
This course is an introduction to the reading of prose fiction. It includes
analysis of selected short stories and novels and the study of elements
of fiction such as point of view, theme, characterization, and setting.
A thematic focus this semester will be concepts of home and relationships
between generations. Teaching method: Class discussion, occasional group
work, occasional short lecture. Requirements: Two papers (5 pages each),
midterm, final. Texts: 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (Bedford/St.
Martin's) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (World's Classics-Oxford) Mary
Shelley, Frankenstein (Penguin) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Collier/MacMillan) William Faulkner,
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical, 2nd ed) Toni Morrison, Song of
Solomon (Plume/Penguin)
ENGL 023 003 Introduction to Fiction Crystall 02:00-03:15 TR
ENGL 023 004 Introduction to Fiction Weber 02:00-03:15 TR
We will study nineteenth- and twentieth-century short stories and one
contemporary American novel. We will focus on analyzing the elements of
fiction such as theme, form, characterization, archetypes, setting and
plot. We will also attend to the social constructions of race, class,
gender, and sexuality in the texts and their historical and cultural contexts.
Format: Some lecture, extensive discussion. Requirements: Quizzes, two
essays, a midterm, and final exam. Texts: A Web of Stories: An Introduction
to Short Fiction Toni Morrison, Paradise.
ENGL 023 005 Introduction to Fiction Crystall 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 023 007 Introduction to Fiction Walker 12:30-01:45 TR
ENGL 023 008 Introduction to Fiction Finseth 12:30-01:45 TR
Why are some writings suppressed, censored, or legally prohibited? What
are the actual and perceived threats that words can pose to an ideology,
religious faith, or social group? How far should the principles of free
speech and free press be extended? What, if any, are the broad moral and
cultural responsibilities of literature? How has literature managed to
smuggle certain ideas past the guardians (legitimate or otherwise) of
public morality and political stability? What is the relation between
the aesthetic form of a literary work and its cultural power? These are
among the questions that will guide our approach to a variety of texts
that have encountered official and/or organized opposition due to their
social, sexual, religious, or political content. Students should be aware
that some of the material ! may be disturbing or offensive. Teaching Method:
Lecture and discussion. Each student will! also participate in a group
presentation at some point in the semester. Requirements: One midterm
exam, one final exam, and two essays (5-7 pp.). Preliminary Reading List:
Miguel Asturias, El Senor Presidente Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
William Burroughs, Junky Naguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley Toni Morrison,
The Bluest Eye John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's
Travels Pramoedya Anata Toer, The Fugitive Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn Voltaire, Candide Emile Zola, Therese Raquin short selections from
Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler, Karl Marx, the Marquis de Sade, Salman Rushdie,
David Walker, and others
ENGL 023 009 Introduction to Fiction Finseth 03:30-04:45 TR
Why are some writings suppressed, censored, or legally prohibited? What
are the actual and perceived threats that words can pose to an ideology,
religious faith, or social group? How far should the principles of free
speech and free press be extended? What, if any, are the broad moral and
cultural responsibilities of literature? How has literature managed to
smuggle certain ideas past the guardians (legitimate or otherwise) of
public morality and political stability? What is the relation between
the aesthetic form of a literary work and its cultural power? These are
among the questions that will guide our approach to a variety of texts
that have encountered official and/or organized opposition due to their
social, sexual, religious, or political content. Students should be aware
that some of the materi! al may be disturbing or offensive. Teaching Method:
Lecture and discussion. Each student w! ill also participate in a group
presentation at some point in the semester. Requirements: One midterm
exam, one final exam, and two essays (5-7 pp.). Preliminary Reading List:
Miguel Asturias, El Senor Presidente Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
William Burroughs, Junky Naguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley Toni Morrison,
The Bluest Eye John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's
Travels Pramoedya Anata Toer, The Fugitive Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn Voltaire, Candide Emile Zola, Therese Raquin short selections from
Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler, Karl Marx, the Marquis de Sade, Salman Rushdie,
David Walker, and others
ENGL 023E 001 Introduction to Fiction (Engl 12 Link) Dudley, M 12:30-01:45
TR
Designed to introduce students to the study of literature at the college
level, this course is a reading intense exercise in "close" reading. During
the course of the semester, we will explore the development of our country's
literature over the last century. With the aid of several seminal texts,
including both short stories and novels, we will examine how the conventions
of fiction (including imagery, symbolism, plot and characterization) work
to illuminate the text and create meaning for author and reader alike.
More specifically, we'll attempt to show how these texts in turn define
America as we see it, think it, and/or hope it to be. While lecture and
other means of presentation may occasionally aid in directing the course,
classes will primarily be discussion based, thus student! driven. Assignments
will include two short papers, a longer research paper, and a final examination.
ENGL 023E 002 Introduction to Fiction (Engl 12 Link) Dutta 11:00-11:50 MWF
ENGL 023W 001 Introduction to Fiction Writing Spence 11:00-12:15 MW
ENGL 023W 002 Introduction to Fiction Writing Moose 02:00-03:15 MW
ENGL 023W 003 Introduction to Fiction Writing Simpson 09:30-10:45 TR
ENGL 023W 004 Introduction to Fiction Writing Gingher 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 024 001 Contemporary Literature Mills 08:00-09:15 TR
English 24 is an introductory course designed to familiarize students
with important writers working within various genres and spanning multiple
backgrounds. As it is centered around "contemporary fiction", we will
examine authors who are working within the last 15-20 years. In this particular
course, we will focus on the theme of The "American" Experience. Accordingly,
we will look at the ways in which authors from various communities (African
American, Chicana, Latino/a, Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Asian-American, Native
American, heterosexual, feminist, masculine, queer, etc.) depict, complicate,
and/or critique the American experience. Some authors we will be reading
may include: Ana Castillo, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, John Edgar
Wideman, Maryse Condé, Junot Diaz, Tobias Wolf, Yusef Kom! unyakaa, Rosario
Morales, Aurora Morales Levins, Mayra Santos Febres, and Melissa Bank
[list is subject to change]. Class will be structured around active class
discussions. Course requirements include midterm, exam, final paper, and
3 short papers.
ENGL 024 003 Contemporary Literature Walker 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 024 004 Contemporary Literature Windolph 12:00-12:50 MWF
ENGL 025 001 Introduction to Poetry Button 11:00-12:15 TR Texts: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (abridged). Ferguson, et al (eds.) (Norton:1997) ISBN: 039396924x Timothy Steele, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. (Ohio UP: 1999) ISBN: 0821412604
ENGL 025 002 Introduction to Poetry Bolton 01:00-01:50 MWF
In the Defence of Poesie (1595), Sir Philip Sidney uses the metaphor of
the "speaking picture" to define the poet's craft. Sidney's phrase, which
suggests that poetry engages its audience through both sight and sound,
reminds us that what we hear often clarifies and sometimes complicates
what we see, physically or imaginatively. This course will therefore emphasize
the importance of poetic forms, necessitating close attention to meter,
rhythm, and other technical features. The readings for the course will
constitute a historical survey of British and American poetry, allowing
us to trace continuities in as well as departures from traditional forms
and styles. Teaching method: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Midterm
exam, final exam, weekly explications, and recitation of 25 lines of poetry.
Texts: The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th ed. (required) A Handbook to
Literature, 8th ed. (recommended).
ENGL 025W 001 Introduction to Poetry Writing Chitwood 12:00-01:15 MW
ENGL 025W 002 Introduction to Poetry Writing Rabb 09:30-10:45 TR
ENGL 025W 003 Introduction to Poetry Writing Powell, T 09:00-09:50 MWF
ENGL 026 001 Introduction to Drama O'Shaughnessey 12:00-12:50 MWF
This course will study plays from three major periods of drama: 5th century
Athens, the Renaissance, and the 20th century. Class is discussion-oriented.
In addition to one midterm, final, and frequent quizzes, students will
write two papers and attend two plays Texts: Aeschylus, The Oresteia.
(Penguin:1977) ISBN: 0140443339 Euripides, Euripides IV: Four Tragedies.
(UC Press:1958) ISBN: 0226307832 Euripides, Medea. (Dover:1993) ISBN:
0486275485 Moliere, Misanthrope. (Dover:1992) ISBN: 0486270653 Shakespeare,
Much Ado About Nothing. (Dover:1994) ISBN: 0486282724 Shakespeare, Othello.
(Dover:1996) ISBN: 0486290972 Sophocles, Antigone. (Dover:1993) ISBN:
0486278042 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus. (Dover:1999) ISBN: 0486406598
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. (Dover:1991) ISBN: 0486268772 Williams, Cat On
a Hot Tin Roof. (Penguin:1955) ISBN: 0451171128 Wilson, Fences. (Penguin:1986)
ISBN: 0452264014
ENGL 026 002 Introduction to Drama O'Shaughnessey 09:00-09:50 MWF
This course will study plays from three major periods of drama: 5th century
Athens, the Renaissance, and the 20th century. Class is discussion-oriented.
In addition to one midterm, final, and frequent quizzes, students will
write two papers and attend two plays Texts: Aeschylus, The Oresteia.
(Penguin:1977) ISBN: 0140443339 Euripides, Euripides IV: Four Tragedies.
(UC Press:1958) ISBN: 0226307832 Euripides, Medea. (Dover:1993) ISBN:
0486275485 Moliere, Misanthrope. (Dover:1992) ISBN: 0486270653 Shakespeare,
Much Ado About Nothing. (Dover:1994) ISBN: 0486282724 Shakespeare, Othello.
(Dover:1996) ISBN: 0486290972 Sophocles, Antigone. (Dover:1993) ISBN:
0486278042 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus. (Dover:1999) ISBN: 0486406598
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. (Dover:1991) ISBN: 0486268772 Williams, Cat On
a Hot Tin Roof. (Penguin:1955) ISBN: 0451171128 Wilson, Fences. (Penguin:1986)
ISBN: 0452264014
ENGL 028 001 Major American Authors Everton 09:00-09:50 MWF
Authorship in America. In the context of surveying several important American
authors from the 19th and 20th centuries, we will focus our analysis on
what it meant--and means--to be a writer in America. Specifically, we
will explore the cultural significance of the "author" in our society
by paying special attention to the historical conditions of professional
authorship and the social impact of authors' work. At the same time, we
will seek an answer to the question that drives the study of literature:
Why do these writers and texts matter? In other words, what roles did
authors play in their own cultures, and why (and even how) do they survive
in ours? Authors we will treat at some length include Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain,
William Faulk! ner, James Baldwin, and Raymond Carver. The course will
involve some lecture, but will be ! primarily discussion-driven. Requirements
include a midterm and final exam, participation in an on-line discussion
forum, a group presentation, and three papers.
ENGL 028 002 Major American Authors O'Shaughnessey 10:00-10:50 MWF
This course examines multiple works of major American writers from the
19th and 20th century. We will read short stories, novels, and poetry.
There are 2 papers, quizzes, a midterm and a final examination.
ENGL 028 003 Major American Authors Diamant 11:00-11:50 MWF
ENGL 028 004 Major American Authors Chandler 01:00-01:50 MWF This course seeks to interrogate ideas of identity and selfhood in America and how those ideas come together to form the notion of an "American Diaspora". We will look at texts by several American authors (from a variety of different ethnic and cultural perspectives) who express and exhibit multiple positions in America and who give interesting looks into identity formation and the politics of identity. In exploring these novels, we will seek to answer a variety of questions: How do these writers shape and define identity? What function does geographic displacement play in the authenticating nature of identity? How do the writers examine the placement of reace and gender in identity formation? Do these works reflect a new concept, a new meaning of the term Diaspora? We will treat the works of Gayl Jones,! John Edgar Wideman, Philip Roth and others and we will cover a variety of different writi! ng mediums. Coursework will include a stylistic mix of major works by primary authors as well as small supplemental readings for discussion sake. Requirements: 2 exams, 2 papers, and a group presentation. Teaching method: Lecture and discussion.
ENGL 028 005 Major American Authors Diamant 12:00-12:50 MWF
ENGL 028 006 Major American Authors Fahy 02:00-03:15 TR
"One True Sentence": Reaching the Heights of Modernism. This class will
examine modernism in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. By focusing
on literature, art, music, drama, and photography, we will try to define
modernism in aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic terms. In addition to
papers and regular quizzes, students will be asked to give group presentations
on some of the social and historic forces shaping modernism. Texts: Mark
Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Kate Chopin, The Awakening Stephen
Crane, "The Open Boat" Henry James, "Daisy Miller: A Study" Gertrude Stein,
Three Lives Eugene O' Neill, The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape T. S.
Eliot, The Waste Land selections from Ezra Pound, H. D., and Langston
Hughes Jean Toomer, Cane Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time, Men without Women,
Winner Take Nothing, and The Sun Also Rises F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Crack-Up
ENGL 028 007 Major American Authors Fahy 03:30-04:45 TR
"One True Sentence": Reaching the Heights of Modernism. This class
will examine modernism in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. By
focusing on literature, art, music, drama, and photography, we will try
to define modernism in aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic terms. In addition
to papers and regular quizzes, students will be asked to give group presentations
on some of the social and historic forces shaping modernism. Texts: Mark
Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Kate Chopin, The Awakening Stephen
Crane, "The Open Boat" Henry James, "Daisy Miller: A Study" Gertrude Stein,
Three Lives Eugene O' Neill, The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape T. S.
Eliot, The Waste Land selections from Ezra Pound, H. D., and Langston
Hughes Jean Toomer, Cane Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time, Men without Women,
Winner Take Nothing, and The Sun Also Rises F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Crack-Up
ENGL 029 001 Honors: Types of Literature Kendall 08:00-09:15 TR
An introduction to some of the many forms drama and epic take in the West
from the classical world to the present. We will pair several plays to
explore questions of generic expectation and surprise, competing representational
modes of verisimilitude and symbolism, and historical and cultural divergence.
In addition to reading plays, we will be seeing them: an ACTER version
of Macbeth and Playmaker's production of The Playboy of the Western World.
Other plays include Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Congreve's The Way of the
World, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Beckett's Endgame, O'Neill's Desire
Under the Elms, and Wilson's Fences. We will study Virgil's Aeneid and
Milton's Paradise Lost with an eye toward changing ideas of the heroic.
Teaching method: Discussion. Requirements: Four short essays, daily j!
ournal entries, and a final examination. Texts: Jacobus, Bedford Introduction
to Drama. 3rd edition (VHPS:1997) ISBN: 0312134045 Shakespeare, Macbeth
(Dover:1994) ISBN: 0486278026 Milton, Paradise Lost (Penguin:1981) ISBN:
0451628268 Virgil, Aeneid. (Bantam:1971) ISBN: 0553210416
ENGL 029B 001 Honors: Women's Lives Langbauer 12:30-01:45 TR
Reading and Writing Women's Lives: Personal Essay, Autobiography, Biography,
and Autoethnography. How do women tell their stories? What are the different
shapes of women's personal writing? This course will focus on the many
forms with which we tell the stories of women's lives. Our emphasis will
be on the imaginative work of self-making through writing. We will explore
this work by reading published essays and writing some of our own. We
will ask questions about self and identity--how do we define these terms
through such contexts as personal experience? How are they defined by
contexts such as gender or race? How do these forces shape not only stories
but persons themselves? Readings will include personal essays and works
of biography and autobiography paired with critical and theoretical responses.!
Writing projects will tackle these same forms: traditional literary criticism,
your own a! utobiography, and the biography of some else or of a group
(the personal history of a culture important to you). My teaching uses
a workshop approach that sees reading and writing as active and as processes,
that emphasizes learning as experiential and collaborative. Within the
larger classroom community, students will also work in small writing and
discussion groups. We will hope to have published writers visit as guest
speakers. (English 29B has been developed with the aid of a Brandes Grant.)
Readings will be in a course pak including selections of personal essays
and criticism including Joan Didion, Linda Brodkey, Sidonie Smith, and
Joan Scott, and also might include such books as Girl, Interrupted (Susanne
Kaysen), The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (Louise Erdrich), Crafting
A Life in Essay, Story, Poem: In Essay, Story, Poem (Donald M. Murray),
The Liar's Club: A Memoir (Mary Karr), Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Linda
Wagner-Martin), Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne
Lamott).
ENGL 029W 001 Honors: Introduction to Creative Writing Seay 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 031 001 Advanced Composition & Rhetorical Thry Anderson 09:30-10:45
TR
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.
ENGL 034 001 Intermediate Fiction Writing Dessen, S 09:30-10:45 TR
ENGL 034 002 Intermediate Fiction Writing Moose 04:00-05:15 MW
ENGL 034 003 Intermediate Fiction Writing Durban 11:00-12:15 MW
ENGL 034P 001 Intermediate Poetry Writing McFee 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 035 001 Advanced Fiction Writing Gingher 02:00-03:15 TR
ENGL 035N 001 Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction Simpson 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 035N 002 Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction Gingher 03:30-04:45 TR
ENGL 035P 001 Advanced Poetry Writing Seay 02:00-03:15 TR
ENGL 038 001 The English Language Eble 10:00-10:50 MWF
A survey of the historical, political, and social factors that have shaped
the English language from its Proto-Indo-European origins to its current
status as a world-wide language. Students will be expected to learn various
important features of English as they are exemplified in texts from the
Old, Middle, and Modern periods. Teaching methods: Lecture, with some
opportunity for discussion. Requirements: Frequent short quizzes, two
tests, two short papers or one long paper, and a final exam. ATTENDANCE
IS REQUIRED. Texts: Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English
Language. (Cambridge:1995) ISBN: 0521596556,
ENGL 042 001 Movie Criticism O'Connor 02:00-03:50 TR
Students will be assigned recitation sections after the first day of class.
Recitation sections meet TR 4:00pm to 4:50pm. Teaching Methods: Lecture/Discussion
Requirements: Papers and quizzes assigned by discussion leaders; midterm
and final exams. Texts: Richard Gollin, A Viewers Guide to Film. (McGraw
Hill: 1992) ISBN: 007023700X Coursepak on individual films
ENGL 043 001 The English Novel Taylor, B 03:30-04:45 TR
In this course we'll be studying some of the classics of British fiction
of the 18th and 19th centuries. We'll also consider how these works have
been interpreted for the late 20th century in the medium of film. In comparing
these movies to the fiction that inspired them, we'll be assessing what
our own culture continues to find meaningful in novels written 100-200
years ago. Texts: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders Jane Austen, Persuasion
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations Thomas Hardy, Tess of the Durbervilles and films based
on these novels
ENGL 050 001 Topics in Gender and Literature Varma 02:00-03:15 TR
Women Writing South Asia. The course will explore twentieth century writings
by South Asian women, and will examine them through the perspective of
a postcolonial feminist literary tradition. We will look at how women's
writings challenge and rewrite dominant narratives of nation, caste, development
and diaspora.
ENGL 052 001 Chaucer Leinbaugh 02:00-03:15 TR
ENGL 054 001 Sixteenth-Century English Literature Wolfe 11:00-12:15
TR
This course is a survey of English Literature from Thomas More to John
Donne with attention to the historical, religious, political, and intellectual
context of sixteenth-century poetry, prose, and drama. We will study literary
responses to the Reformation (Erasmus, More, Calvin, Foxe), the development
of Tudor lyric from Wyatt to Donne; the exigencies of court culture (Castiglione),
the rise of skepticism and scientific method (Montaigne, Nashe, and Francis
Bacon), and poetic theory and practice in the epic and lyric poetry of
the two great Elizabethans, Sidney and Spenser. In lectures and in critical
readings, students will also learn about some of the major philosophical,
political, and religious developments of the period, as well as developments
in the visual arts in England and on the continent. Students will write
a research paper at the end of the term on a topic of their own choosing,
including (but not limited to) scientific, artistic, political, and religious
developments and debates of the sixteenth century. English 20 is very
helpful but is not a prerequisite for this course. Requirements: One 6-8
page essay; one 10-12 page research paper, midterm and comprehensive final
examination. Teaching Method: The class will be a combination of lecture
and intelligent, lively, directed discussion.
ENGL 058 002 Shakespeare Kendall 09:30-10:45 TR
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. Tobin et al, ed. (Houghton Mifflin:
1997) ISBN: 0395754909 The Riverside Shakespeare is the text of choice,
but you may substitute any other reputable anthology or single play editions
ENGL 058 003 Shakespeare Goldberg 02:00-02:50 MWF
ENGL 058 004 Shakespeare Dessen 11:00-12:15 TR
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. Harbage. (Viking: 1974) ISBN:
0140714499
ENGL 058 005 Shakespeare Goldberg 12:00-12:50 MWF
ENGL 058H 001 Shakespeare Gless 09:30-10:45 TR
Our mutual goals in Engl 58H are to learn as much as we can about Shakespeare
and his times, about the enduring effects literature exerts upon our individual
and shared histories, and about the techniques of literary interpretation
in general. More specifically, this course aims to develop reading strategies
and to present historical information that will allow students to undertake
independent interpretations of Shakespeare's plays. Accordingly, we will
study anywhere from 10 to 12 plays, giving persistent attention to the
intellectual, social, and political contexts in which the plays were written
and first produced. Through the use of video-tapes, we will also study
some of the ways in which specifically dramatic aspects of the plays -
directorial decisions, visual effects, etc. - condition our responses
to Shakespeare's printed texts. We will work through various implications
of the theory that readers! themselves supply part of what they find in
literary texts. Because reading involves complex acts of selection, projection,
and connection, students will be expected to participate actively in discussions.
"Participation" will mean readiness ( on our Web Forum and in class meetings
( (1) to describe one's own reactions to Shakespeare's texts, (2) to notice
and develop changes in those responses, changes which result from hearing
the interpretations of others; from successive re-readings of the text;
and from witnessing stage or film performances, and (3) to seek to understand
contrasting interpretations proposed by fellow students as well as the
professor. This multifaceted participation will count for roughly 20%
of each student's course grade; regularity, reflectiveness, evidence of
rigorous reading, and constructive engagement with fellow students will
be its measures of quality. I expect to include the following plays in
our work, but I am open to making changes if a numb! er of students express
an interest in working on other plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Henry IV, part i; Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant
of Venice, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest. Exams,
papers, and quizzes: There will be a midterm, two papers (6-8 pages; 10-12
pages), and a comprehensive, three-hour final.
ENGL 060 001 Seventeenth-Century English Literature Armitage 11:00-12:15
TR
A study of poetry and prose written by Raleigh, Donne, Bacon, Jonson,
Burton, Herbert, Browne, Herrick, Marvell, and others in an era when kings
and queens were dethroned and executed, England was briefly a commonwealth
without a monarch, and "the world turned upside down" as the modern era
evolved. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion, focused on the literature
in relation to its historical and cultural context. Requirements: Quizzes,
short papers, a mid-term and a cumulative exam. Texts: Seventeenth-Century
Prose and Poetry, 2nd edition. ed. Witherspoon & Warnke. (Harcourt Brace:1982)
ISBN: 0155802372
ENGL 064 001 Milton Barbour 11:00-11:50 MWF
We will study Milton's major prose and poetry in their religious, political,
and social contexts. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion Requirements:
Two papers, one midterm, and one final exam. Texts: Merritt Hughes, ed.
John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. (Prentice Hall:1985) ISBN:
0023582901 Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed : Britain 1603-1714. (Penguin:1996)
ISBN: 0140148272
ENGL 065 001 Engl Drama of the Restoration & 18th C. Stumpf 10:00-10:50 MWF
ENGL 066 001 Prose & Poetry of the Classical Period Reinert 11:00-12:15
TR
In this course we will read major English authors of the late seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, including Dryden, Addison, Pope, Thomson, Gray,
Collins, Johnson, and Cowper. We will examine shifting fashions in poetry,
particularly the periodical essay. And we will follow changing conceptions
of literature's social role, as writers move away from positions of political
power and concern themselves increasingly with themes drawn from private
life. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: TBA.
ENGL 072 001 The Chief Romantic Poets Kirkpatrick 12:30-01:45 TR
ENGL 080 001 American Literature to 1865 Gura 09:00-09:50 MWF
A wide-ranging introduction to the literature, broadly defined, of pre-Civil
War America. In addition to such well-known authors as Emerson, Hawthorne,
and Melville, we will hear many other voices from the period of settlement
through 1860 that helped to shape American discourse. While we will concern
ourselves primarily with why certain authors and works are representative
of different points in American history, we will not lose sight of the
fact that some texts seem to rise above the historical moment to be considered
masterpieces of the written language. An important course for the well-rounded
English major as well as for those who think that they might specialize
in American literature. Requirements: Two in-class exams and a final.
One 10-12 page paper on an assigned topic (students will have choice of
several possibilities). Regular attendance is expected. Texts: Norton
Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1, 5th edition. (Norton) ISBN:0-393-95871-X
ENGL 081 001 American Literature from 1865 to 1930 Thrailkill 12:30-01:45
TR
This course will survey American fiction and poetry from after the Civil
War through the last years of the Harlem Renaissance. We will pay close
attention to the way that writers of this period linked poetic and narrative
entrapment--the feeling of being limited by old literary forms--to social,
moral, and spiritual constriction--the experience of being restricted
and even damaged by outdated social rules and mores. With this organizing
framework, we will investigate how writers imagined literary experimentation
as having liberating, "real world" effects (such as restructuring sex/gender
roles and reconceiving racial identity) and evaluate the successes and
failures of this project. In addition to familiarizing students with these
themes and materials, course assignments will also impr! ove skills in
critical reading, analytical discussion, and argumentative writing. Requirements:
brief bi-weekly papers, two longer essays (5-7 pages), formal presentation,
final exam. Students must keep pace with a hefty amount of reading. Class
format: lecture and discussion. Texts: Ed. Joan R. Sherman, African-American
Poetry, An Anthology (Dover:1997) ISBN: 0486296040 W.E.B. Dubois, The
Souls of Black Folk. (Dover:1994) ISBN: 048628041-1 Walt Whitman, Selected
Poems. (Dover:1991) ISBN: 0486268780 James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography
of an Ex-Colored Man. (Dover:1995) ISBN: 048628512x T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland,
Prufrock, and Other Poems. (Dover:1998) ISBN: 0486400611 Robert Frost,
A Boy's Will and North of Boston. (Dover:1991) ISBN: 0486268667 Willa
Cather, Paul's Case and Other Stories. (Dover:1996) ISBN: 0486290573 Kate
Chopin, The Awakening. (Dover:1993) ISBN: 0486277860 Edith Wharton, Ethan
Frome. (Dover) ISBN: 0486266907 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper.
(Dover:1997) ISBN: 0486298574 Henry James, Daisy Miller. (Dover) ISBN:
0486287734 Henry James, Beast in the Jungle. (Dover) ISBN: 0486275523
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat and Other Stories. (Dover) ISBN: 0486275477
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Harper:1998) ISBN:
0060931418
ENGL 081 002 American Literature from 1865 to 1930 O'Connor 11:00-12:15
TR
A small class discussion of important features in the works of five major
authors writing between the Civil War and the Depression. Class participation
in presentations and discussions will be vital. Close readings, group
works, research and in-class presentations will be emphasized. One paper,
occasional quizzes and assignments, one in-class presentation, and a final
exam will be considered along with class participation for a final grade.
CLASS SIZE LIMITED TO 20. Texts: Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems. (Little
Brown) Mark Twain, The Portable Mark Twain. (Viking) Charles Chesnutt,
Collected Stories. (Penguin) Willa Cather, The Professor's House. (Vintage)
Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories. (Scribners)
ENGL 081 003 American Literature from 1865 to 1930 Ludington 11:00-12:15 MW
ENGL 082 001 American Literature from 1930 to present Flora 03:30-04:45
TR
We will survey a range of American literature in fiction, drama, poetry,
essays from 1930 to the present. We will ride the peak of modernism and
explore changes that followed it with attention to the complexity of American
culture in the twentieth-century. Teaching methods: Lecture-discussion.
Requirements: 2 hour examinations; 2 critical papers; final examiniation.
Texts: Ernest Hemingway, The Short Stories. (Scribners) ISBN: 0684803348
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. (Ballantine)
ISBN: 0345326490 Carol Shields, Larry's Party. (Penguin) ISBN: 0140266771
Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Folks. (Vintage) ISBN: 0679728111 Thornton
Wilder, 3 Plays. (Harper) ISBN: 0060912936 Elizabeth Bishop, Complete
Poems. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN: 0374518173 Edward Albee, Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf. (Dramatists) ISBN: 082212498 Arthur Miller,
The Crucible. (Dramatists) ISBN: 0822202557 Robert Morgan, Top Soil Road.
(LSU Pr) ISBN: 0807126136
ENGL 083 001 The American Novel Rust 11:00-11:50 MWF
This is a survey of the American novel from the beginnings to World War
II, with close attention to eleven classical novels. Teaching methods:
Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Two 600-900 word papers; forum participation;
midterm and final exams. Texts: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Houghton-Mifflin)
ISBN: 0395051428 Melville, Moby-Dick (Bobbs-Merrill) ISBN: 0023367202
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U of Calif. P) ISBN: 052055209
James, The American (Houghton-Mifflin) ISBN: 0395051630 Crane, The Red
Badge of Courage and Other Writings (H-M) ISBN: 0395051436 Cather, O Pioneers!
(Sentry) ISBN: 0395083656 Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Scribners) ISBN:
0684801523 Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Scribners) ISBN: 0684800713
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage) ISBN: 0679732187 Steinbeck, Of Mice
and Men (Penguin) ISBN: 0140177396 Wharton, The House of Mirth (Signet)
ISBN: 0451527569
ENGL 083 002 The American Novel Wagner-Martin 09:30-10:45 TR
A survey of the American novel and short story, covering the last 150
years. Starting with Melville and Hawthorne, the class goes to Morrison
and Alexis. By using the Heath anthology, we will be able to read more
than 25 authors. Teaching methods: Class operates on mini-lectures and
discussion. Requirements: Midterm and final exams; two 7-10 page papers.
Short quizzes. Texts: The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume
2, 4th Ed. (Houghton Mifflin: 2002) ISBN: 061810920x Herman Melville,
Billy Budd and Other Stories. (Penguin:1986) ISBN: 0140390537 Nathaniel
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. (Penguin) ISBN: 0140390197 William Faulkner,
The Sound and the Fury. (Viking:1990) ISBN: 0679732241 Toni Morrison,
Beloved. (Plume) ISBN: 0452264464 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. (Vintage:
1995) ISBN: 0679732764 Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried. (Broadway)
ISBN: 076790289 Jack Kerouac, On the Road. (Penguin: 1991) ISBN: 0140042598
ENGL 083 003 The American Novel DeGuzman 12:30-01:45 TR
Parallelogram: a quadrilateral configuration having both pairs of opposite
sides parallel to each other, but dependent for its shape on the force-field
between 4 points in which a change in the positioning of one point implies
a change in the rest. This course looks at U.S. novels, from the late
eighteenth-century to the present, focused on the thoughts, feelings,
and experiences of four interlocking characters (despite the peripheral
appearance of other characters). What I call the "parallelogrammatic"
formulation of these novels distinguishes them from more straighforwardly
memoir-like or autobiographical novels generally revolving around a single
consciousness encountering a world; the adultery or divided-loyalty novels
constituted upon one or more infernal triangles; and family sagas, chronicles,
or a! dventure novels of proliferating characters presented serially.
The novel of four may part! ake of these other forms (strict divisions
seldom exist) but its structure speaks to a concern that goes beyond a
question of the production of individuality or the making or undoing of
the couple or company. If three signals company, as the saying goes, then
the novel of four quite literally "plots" a concern with the algebraic
geometry of a social order and queries the assumed axioms of community.
Course requirements will include a few 1-2 page written responses, an
oral presentation, one 8-page essay, and an 8-10 page essay. Class meetings
will involve a mixture of lecture and discussion. REQUIRED READING: Charles
Brockden Brown, Wieland (1798) Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym (1838) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1852) Louisa
May Alcott, Little Women (1868) Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1887)
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929) Carson McCullers, Reflections
in a Golden Eye (1941) Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975) Americo Paredes,
The Shadow (1998)
ENGL 083 004 The American Novel Gura 10:00-10:50 MWF
Beginning with one of the earliest American novels, Charles Brockden Brown's
Wieland (1798), we will move from the late eighteenth century to the early
twentieth, ending with William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (1930). Along
the way we will read one of the nineteenth century's best-selling works,
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), as well as one of its
dismal "failures," Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). Nathaniel Hawthorne's
novel about the Brook Farm Utopia, The Blithedale Romance (1852), Harold
Frederic's scathing portrait of a fallen minister, The Damnation of Theron
Ware (1896), Kate Chopin's psychologically probing investigation of a
woman's The Awakening (1899) and William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance,
an early treatment of divorce, round out our ambitious semester. We will
pay much ! attention to the historical context of each of these novels,
and we will try to discern in! particular the assumptions about audience
made by each author. Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
ATTENDANCE REQUIRED. Two papers (4-6, 8-10pp.), a mid-term, and a final,
with occasional quizzes as well to make sure students keep up with the
reading. Texts: Noted above. This is a demanding reading list, but students
who enroll in the class should not be daunted by the reading assignments.
ENGL 084 001 African American Literature to 1950 Coleman 12:30-01:45
TR
Survey of African American Literature from its beginning to 1950, from
slave narratives through Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, with special
focus on the writers of the Harlem Rennaissance (the 1920's). Teaching
Methods: Lecture and discussion with occasional oral reports by students.
Requirements: 2 short papers, midterm, and a final exam. Texts: Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Harper:1998) ISBN: 0060931418 Wright, Native
Son. (Harper:1989) ISBN: 0060809779 Harper, Iola Leroy. (Beacon:1987)
ISBN: 0807063177 Norton Anthology of African American Literature. (Norton:1997)
ISBN: 0393959082
ENGL 085 001 African American Literature since 1950 Greene 09:30-10:45
TR
The course will examine representative novels and short fictions by and
about African Americans. Attention will be given to issues concerning
gender, literary form, and critical theory. Teaching Methods: There will
be a balance of lectures and discussion. Requirements: Three papers, a
mid-course exam, and a final exam. Texts: Clarence Major, Calling the
Wind (short fiction anthology). (Harper) ISBN: 0060982012 Toni Morrison,
Sula. (Penguin) ISBN: 0452263492 James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain.
(Bantam) ISBN: 0440330076 Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place.
(Penguin) ISBN: 014006690x John Edgar Wideman, The Cattle Killing. (Houghlin
Mifflin) ISBN: 0395877504
ENGL 088 001 Southern American Literature Hobson 02:00-02:50 MWF
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 fin!
al examination; one long (approximately 12 pp.) paper; possible quizzes
or oral reports. Texts: Andrews, Gwin, Harris, Hobson, The Literature
of the American South: Norton Anthology. (Norton: 1998) ISBN:0393316718
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (Random: 1986) ISBN: 0679732187 Ellison, Invisible
Man. 2nd ed., (Random: 1980) ISBN: 0679732764 Chopin, The Awakening. (Berkley:
1964) ISBN: 1573225118
ENGL 088 002 Southern American Literature Flora 09:30-10:45 TR
Looking at representative fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and interviews,
this course will explore the literature of the American South. An anthology
will guide us through the Old South. For the modern South, we will study
representative authors in more depth. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Two hour examinations, two short papers, final examination.
Texts: A New Reader of the Old South. (Peachtree) ISBN: 1561450200 Doris
Betts, The Sharp Teeth of Love. (Scribners) ISBN: 0684844753 Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird. (Warner Bks) ISBN: 0446310786 Thomas Wolfe, The
Lost Boy. (UNC Pr) ISBN: 0807644851 Bobbie Ann Mason, Zigzagging Down
a Wild Trail. (Random) ISBN: 0679449248
ENGL 090 001 Intro to Literary Criticism Curtain 12:30-01:45 TR
Texts: Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism. Ed., Leitch (Norton: 2001)
ISBN: 0393974294
ENGL 090C 001 Literature, Race, & Ethnicity DeGuzman 02:00-03:15
TR
Southwest as Contact Zone: Reading "Chicana/o" and "Native American" in
Relation. The Southwest: Southern California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, perhaps Louisiana to the extent that half of it lies west of the
proverbial "frontier" dividing line of the Mississippi River, and the
interior provinces of New Spain and later the northern provinces of Mexico
which prior to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo extended into present-day
Utah. The US Southwest/Northern Mexico borderzone was "home" to and "contact
zone" of the following Native American nations, among others: the Natchez,
the Comanche, the Apache, the Pueblo, the Navajo, the Hopi, the Mohave,
the Papago, the Tarahumara, the Chumash, the Cochimi, etc. Additionally,
the Southwest (as both the US and northern Mexico) is popula! ted by millions
of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans many of whom, particularly as politicized
Chicanas/os, claim Aztec "heritage" both as a genealogical and a cultural
concept. The Aztecs were concentrated in the central Valley of Mexico
(quite far south of the US/Mexico borderlands). However, their imperial
dominion extended up into the northern deserts of Mexico now the southwestern
United States. Although it is the Aztec civilization that has been emphasized
in much Chicana/o literature claiming indigenous "heritage," other native
cultures are claimed as well, among them, many of those cited above. Hence,
for example, a recent academic conference "All Women of Red Nations: Weaving
Connections" includes writers who identify as "Chicana" as well as artists
and scholars whose primary identifications are as "Native American" and
yet have Spanish names. Reading a diverse set of works by writers of the
Southwest we will explore connections between what have often been treated
as distinct literatures--Chicana/o and Native American. These connections
may be made by the writers themselves in their invocation of shared space,
motifs, and kinship. Commonality may also take the form of shared struggle
for socio-economic justice and representation (both specifically legal
and more broadly cultural) against the ways in which "red" and "brown"
people are managed by the US government, stereotyped, and compelled to
cohabit in regions of increasingly scarce resources as a result of legacies
of occupation. Sometimes connections appear as their seeming opposite,
deliberate rejection and boundary-drawing and we will inquire into the
causes and effects of these kinds of territorialities. Writers include,
but are not limited to Paula Gunn Allen, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo,
Ines Talamantez, Kathleen Alcala, Rudolfo Acuña, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra
Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alfredo Vea, and Graciela
Limón. Course format is mini-le! ctures/much discussion. Assignments involve
4 1-2-page written responses to the readings, ! an oral presentation &
active class participation, and two essays (one 8 pages and the second
10-12 pages). Assignments and grade distribution: 1. 4 1-2-page responses
on different works that we read), 25% 2. Class participation and one 20-minute
presentation (on the course readings), 15% 3. One short essay, 8 pages,
25% 4. A second longer seminar essay, approx. 10-12 pages, 35%
ENGL 091 001 British Novel from 1870 to WW II Cooper 09:30-10:45 TR
ENGL 092 001 British & American Fiction since WW II Raper 02:00-03:15
TR
Early in this century, historian Henry Adams predicted that the rate of
historical change was accelerating so rapidly that as we approached the
year 2000, if we wished to comprehend our world, we would need to develop
a new historical mind and that to do so we "would need to jump." In this
course we will read contemporary writers who have dealt directly with
the problems of writing history in our century and who, in the great majority
of cases, have turned to fiction as the best medium for comprehending
our past and present. Teaching methods: As much discussion as possible,
often stimulated by students' papers, with the teacher providing backgrounds,
overviews, questions. Requirements: A paper of about 7 typed pages, three
quizzes, perhaps a mid-term, a final examination. Texts: Durrell, Balthazar.
(Penguin:1986) ISBN: 0140153217 Durrell, Clea. (Penguin:1988) ISBN: 0140153225
Barth, Chimera. DeLillo, Libra. (Penguin:1988) ISBN: 0140156046 Johnson,
Middle Passage. (Penguin:1990) ISBN: 0452266386 Durrell, Justine. (Penguin:1985)
ISBN: 0140153195 Fowles, Magus. (Bantam:1978) ISBN: 0440351626 Pynchon,
V. (Harper:1963) ISBN: 0060913088 Swift, Waterland. (Random:1983) ISBN:
0679739793 Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell. (Random:1971) ISBN:
0394746627 Durrell, Mount Olive. (Penguin:1986) ISBN: 0140153209 Barker,
Regeneration. (Penguin:1991) ISBN: 0452270073 coursepak
ENGL 092 002 British & American Fiction since WW II Cooper 12:30-01:45 TR
ENGL 093 001 20th Century British & American Poetry Lensing 11:00-12:15 TR
ENGL 094B 001 The Roots of Modernism Thornton 12:30-01:45 TR
This course explores the intellectual and spiritual assets and liabilities
of the modern Western mind-set. The readings and discussions will bring
to light various implicit ideas and temperamental biases of modernist
world-view, so that we may better appreciate their effect on our life-attitudes.
The course presents philosophical modernism (mainly, scientific empiricism
and Enlightenment rationalism) as a distinctively Western world-view that
is responsible for the many successes of Western culture--e.g., science,
technology, individualism, our concern for justice and for rights--as
well as for its failures--e.g., our deficient sense of the psychological
and spiritual aspects of reality, our profound confusion about personal
and cultural values, the tension between the values that we live out of
and thos! e we feel we can "justify." Only in recent centuries have we
succeeded in effecting the world-view implicit in modernism, and now it
appears doubtful whether we can live--or at least live fully and richly--with
what we have wrought. Readings by A.N. Whitehead, Carl Jung, Michael Polanyi,
Owen Barfield, W. I. Thompson, E. M. Adams, Huston Smith, D. H. Lawrence,
B. F. Skinner, and others. The main text will be my own work-in-progress,
The Roots of Modernism: A Study in Cultural Temperament, which the class
will help me clarify and revise. Teaching Methods: Presentation/Discussion.
That is, class meetings will typically involve my taking twenty or thirty
minutes to set up various ideas, issues, questions, and our exploring
them through discussion. Requirements: There will be a midterm and a final
examination, a term paper on a topic of the student's choosing, and a
reading notebook. Texts: Weldon Thornton, The Roots of Modernism: A Study
in Cultural Temperment (Typescript) Franklin L. Baumer, Modern European
Thought: Continuity and Change in Ideas, 1600-1950 (course pak)
ENGL 094D 001 The Romantic Revolutions Viscomi 02:00-04:30 T
This interdisciplinary course examines the technical and aesthetic revolutions
in the fine arts of the English Romantic Period. It will discuss the productions,
experiments, and aesthetic theories of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable,
Turner, Reynolds, and Blake, focussing on the developments of lyrical
poetry, landscape painting, and original printmaking. We will pay special
attention to the period's primary aesthetic and cultural issues, including
the phenomenon of the picturesque and new ideas about nature, the democratization
of the arts and social role of the artist, the concepts of genius, originality,
and spontaneity, and the problem of representation. In addition to slide
lectures and discussions on specific painters and their techniques, there
will be studio exercises in printmaking and drawing according to 18th-century
techniques and formulae. Knowledge of printmaking and painting! is not
required. Requirements: two essays, studio exercises, and final exam.
Texts: Course packet of essays, poems, prints, and 18th-century treatises
on art. A limited amount of art supplies. William Blake, The Marriage
of Heaven and Hell, ed. G. Keynes. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-281167-3.
ENGL 094J 001 In the Eyes of Others Langbauer 02:00-03:15 TR
In the Eyes of Others: The South as Symbol of Self and Nation. A study
of the genre of travel writing as it informs the construction of self
and nation. Focus on others' views of the American South as stereotype
and symbol. Texts: Southern Cultures, Vol. 4, No. 4 (UNC Press).
ENGL 095 001 20th C Brit/Amer Drama Avery 02:00-03:15 TR