engl 006m...001...First Year Seminar...Andrews...09:00-09:50...MWF
Slavery
and Freedom in African American Literature and Film. The purpose
of this seminar is to explore the African American slave narrative tradition
from its nineteenth-century origins in autobiography to its present manifestations
in prize-winning fiction and film. The most famous nineteenth-century
slave narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave (1845) was an international best seller with sales far surpassing
those of Walden and Moby-Dick combined. Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl (1861), the amazing but utterly truthful story of Harriet Jacobs's
slave experience in Edenton, North Carolina, sells approximately 80,000
copies a year in its Harvard University Press edition alone, primarily
because this narrative is extensively taught in college and university
classrooms. As Series Editor of North American Slave Narratives, an NEH-funded
electronic library of slave narrative here at UNC-CH that numbers presently
235 fully digitized titles and is still growing, I can attest to the wide
interest in these texts by scholars and general readers around the world.
The site, http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html, receives several
thousand hits every day. In the twentieth century, the most important
and influential African American autobiographies and novels--Washington's
Up From Slavery (1901), Wright's Black Boy (1945), Ellison's
Invisible Man (1952), Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X
(1965), and Morrison's Beloved (1987)--are all products, formally
and thematically, of the ongoing slave narrative tradition. The slave
narrative has also given rise to a number of notable films, from major
studio releases like Spielberg's Amistad (1997) to TV-films like
Charles Burnett’s “Nightjohn (1996); in some cases--such as
the 1977 television series based on Haley's Roots--these film versions
of slave narratives have had a profound impact on American culture.
The seminar will focus on the titles and films mentioned in the previous
paragraph. Students will discuss the readings and films in class, and
in on-line discussion forums. Students will work on the North American
Slave Narrative web site, providing research on a narrative of their choice
and posting that research on the web site for the use of its world-wide
readership. Students will also have the opportunity to research the incidence
or impact of slavery on their family history or on the town, city, or
region they come from.
Texts:
Morrison, Beloved. (Plume:1998) ISBN: 0452280621
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. (Harvard UP: 2000)
ISBN: 0674002717
Washington, Up From Slavery. (Norton: 1996) ISBN: 0393967255
Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (Bantam: 1969) ISBN:
0553279378
Douglass, My Bondage & My Freedom. (Univ of IL Pr: 1987) ISBN:
0252014103
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. (Norton:
1997) ISBN: 0393969665
Wright, Black Boy. (Harper: 1993) ISBN: 0060812508
engl 006m...002...First Year Seminar...Reinert...12:30-01:45...tr
Radical
American Writers: 1930-1960. In this course, we will read fiction,
plays, and essays by American writers associated with the political left
in the 1930's, and we will see how the political notions of leftists shifted
during the Second World War and the McCarthy era. Authors will include
such classics as Arthur Miller, Clifford Odets, Mary McCarthy, and Bernard
Malamud, as well as lesser-known essayists and journalists like Anatole
Broyard and Robert Warshow. Class sessions will be run as discussions;
there will be several short papers and a final exam.
Texts:
Mary McCarthy, Intellectual Memoirs, 1936-1938. (Harcourt: 1993)
ISBN: 0156447878
Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps. (Harvest: 1967) ISBN: 0156200856
Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty. (Grove Pr: 1993) ISBN: 0802132200
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman. (Penguin: 1996) ISBN: 0140247734
Philip Roth, I Married A Communist. (Vintage: 1999) ISBN: 0375707212
Bernard Malamud, The Assistant. (Harper: 2000) ISBN: 0060958308
Saul Bellow, Seize the Day. (Penguin: 1996) ISBN: 0140189378
Robert Warshow, The Immediate Experience. (Harvard UP: 2002) ISBN:
0674007263
engl 006m...003...First Year Seminar...Harmon...02:00-03:15...tr
Turner, Wagner, Hardy. A look around exemplars of three of the great arts: painting, music, and literature, organized around J. M. W. Turner, Richard Wagner, and Thomas Hardy. About four weeks on each, with some exposure to intrinsic aesthetic qualities and extrinsic social adaptations, such as cultural anthropology and history. Will exploit the possibilities of CD ROMs, video and audio recordings, slides, and other such materials.
engl 006m...004...First Year Seminar...Taylor,
B...02:00-03:15...tr
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 006m...005...First Year Seminar...Kirkpatrick...03:30-04:45...TR
Biblical Poetics. An investigation of some literary consequences of reading the Bible in English. Lecture, discussion, brief explications, quizzes, and a final. Some experiment in composing “metrical” verse from prose materials.
Texts:
Chapters Into Verse: A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation, Robert Atwan and Laurance Wieder, eds. (Oxford UP, 2001)
A Handbook to Literature, William Harmon and Hugh Holman. 9th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2003)
Course pack of selected critical readings on translation, Hebrew and Greek poetics, and English versification
engl 020...001...British Literature: Chaucer
to Pope...Stumpf...11:00-11:50...mwf
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...Hill, C...12:00-12:50...mwf
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...Bolton, J...01:00-01:50...mwf
The works of poetry, prose, and drama that we
will study span roughly four hundred years of English literature, from
the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century, and comprise a wide range
of genres, including pastoral, romance, epic, lyric, essay (prose and
verse), and tragedy. We will
seek to understand these works more fully through close reading-including,
for poetry especially, attention to formal features-but also by considering
historical, intellectual, political, and theological contexts. Among the authors whose works we will read are Chaucer, Spenser,
Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Herbert, Marvell,
Milton, Swift, and Pope. Teaching
Method: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Quizzes, recitation of a
poem, three essays (4 pages each), midterm exam, and final exam.
Texts:
Required: The Norton Anthology of English
Literature, Vol. 1, 7th ed. (ISBN 0393947742 for paperback or 0393947734
for cloth)
Shakespeare's The Tempest (edition TBA).
Recommended: A Handbook to Literature
(Holman/Harmon), 8th ed. (ISBN 0130127310).
engl 020...004...British Literature: Chaucer
to Pope...O'Neill...11:00-12:15...tr
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...O'Neill...02:00-03:15...tr
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...O’Shaughnessey...09:00-09:50...mwf
Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
engl 021...002...British Literature: Wordsworth
to Eliot...Claxton, M...10:00-10:50...mwf
This
course will survey English literature from 1790 to 1920, including poetry
of the Romantics (William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
and John Keats), the Victorians (Alfred Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Rudyard Kipling), and the Moderns
(William Butler Yeats, and T.S. Eliot). We will read one play by either
Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, an essay by Virginia Woolf, and tackle
George Eliot’s monumental novel, Middlemarch. The novel is
over 800 pages long, but we’ll break it up into manageable sections
throughout the semester. And I promise you’ll be glad to read it.
Requirements: Term paper, midterm and final exams, weekly in-class
writings.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
George Eliot, Middlemarch. (Penguin) ISBN: 0140433880
engl 021...003...British Literature: Wordsworth
to Eliot...Button, L...11:00-11:50...mwf
English
21 offers students an introduction to late 18th through early 20th century
British literature. We will concentrate on a small number of major figures:
Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde, and
a few others. The majority of the readings will be drawn from the most
influential poets and poetry of the era, although we will pay some attention
to fiction and nonfiction prose. Discussion and lecture format with a
strong focus on student preparation and participation. Students will be
evaluated through a variety of methods, including exams (midterm and final),
several short papers, and quizzes.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed),
7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Signet Classic edition
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Signet Classic edition
engl 021...004...British Literature: Wordsworth
to Eliot...Avery...11:00-12:15...tr
Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
engl 021...005...British Literature: Wordsworth
to Eliot...Viscomi...12:30-01:45...tr
Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
engl 021...006...British Literature: Wordsworth
to Eliot...Cash, G...03:30-04:45...tr
Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 2. Abrams (ed), 7th ed. (Norton:2000) ISBN: 039397491X
ENGL 021...007...British Literature: Wordsworth
to Eliot...Weber...02:00-03:15...TR
A
survey of British literature in the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods.
We will study major authors for each era in the context of cultural, historical,
and literary/aesthetic developments. Teaching methods: Lecture
and discussion. Requirements: Midterm, final exam, class presentation;
1 short interpretive paper (5 pp), 1 critical analysis paper (10 pp).
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. (Harcourt) ISBN: 0156628708
ENGL 022...001...Literature and Cultural
Diversity...O'Shaughnessey...10:00-10:50...MWF
Native Americans in Literature/Native American Literature. This course will examine first the cultural perspectives Europeans brought to their encounters with Native Americans and how these perspectives revealed themselves in literature and art. The second half will examine Native American perspectives on the European and American strangers who filled their land. Writers in the first half of the course will include early American and European explorers, Indian captivity narratives, fiction by J.F. Cooper. Native American selections will include speeches by famous chiefs and warriors and contemporary writers such as Sherman Alexie, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris.
engl 022...002...Literature and Cultural
Diversity...Greene...09:30-10:45...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...Staff...08:00-08:50...MWF
engl 023...002...Introduction to Fiction...Eldred,
L...09:00-09:50...mwf
This
course will introduce students to the study of fiction through the exploration
of various traditions-- American, English, Irish, and Indian--and will
examine these traditions with an emphasis on the presentation of the fantastic,
the violent, the unbelievable and the macabre. As the semester progresses,
students will also investigate a variety of storytelling techniques and
sharpen their critical reading skills. Teaching methods will include lecture,
discussion, and group presentations. Students will write short responses
to each text; participate in a group presentation; compose two five to
seven page papers; and take a midterm and a final.
Texts:
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Don Delillo, White Noise
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
and several short stories to be announced
engl 023...003...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: A paper, several
paragraph-length responses, 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...004...Introduction to Fiction...Young,
D...11:00-11:50...mwf
Designed
for non-majors, English 23 offers an introduction to prose fiction. English
23 is designed to teach students how to read and analyze literature and
includes the study of the various elements of fiction such as symbolism,
imagery, plot, point of view, characterization, and style. This particular
section of the course will focus on English novels from the 18th, 19th,
and 20th centuries. This course will include lecture and discussion with
a heavy emphasis on the latter.
Texts: Moll Flanders, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Wuthering
Heights, Mill on the Floss, Great Expectations, Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man, Mrs. Dalloway
engl 023...005...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...12:00-12:50...mwf
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engl 023...006...Introduction to Fiction...Staff...01:00-01:50...mwf
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engl 023...007...Introduction to Fiction...Prichard,
C...12:30-01:45...TR
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engl 023...008...Introduction to Fiction...Mickle...03:30-04:45...tr
By
exploring a variety of novels and short stories, our goal is to determine
what fiction is and how it functions. As a start, we need to come up with
clear definitions of what the short story and the novel are. What are
they designed to do? We will then ask ourselves the following: 1.) How
is it that the authors in the texts we will read define, challenge, or
redefine the conception of fiction? 2.) What role if any does truth play
in fiction? 3.) How much can we trust fiction? 4.) How does one craft
fiction? 5.) To what extent do the authors in these works, define, challenge,
or redefine the cultural, gendered, racial, ethnic, religious, political,
aesthetic, historical, or other aspects of their times and/or historical
times?
Class will consist of group work, whole class discussions, group presentation,
group skits, and lecture. There will be several one-page papers and one
5-7 page paper. There will also be a midterm, pop quizzes as needed, and
the final will be cumulative.
Texts:
Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose. (Quill:1999) ISBN: 0688166431
Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. (Berkeley Bks:2000)
ISBN: 0425173895
Beverly Lawn, 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology. (Bedford/St.
Martin's:2001) ISBN: 0312259123
Lady Murasaki, Tale of Genji. (Dover:2000) ISBN: 0486414159
Richard F. Burton (trans.), Arabian Nights. (Dover:2001) ISBN:
0486419177
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Mass Market:1995)
ISBN: 0345391802
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. (Dover:1995) ISBN: 0486284735
engl 023...009...Introduction to Fiction...Crystall...02:00-03:15...TR
Survival
Narratives: Memory, Desire, and the Search for Stories. The impulse,
desire, and need to tell stories in order to make sense of our lives,
to create meaning, is one of the links between the literary and visual
texts that comprise this course. We will explore the multiple functions
of stories and story telling, the role of memory, and the relationships
between literature and history as we read a series of contemporary social
texts that struggle with the past in order to understand the present and,
perhaps, to imagine possible futures.
One of the goals of the course is to compare narrative forms and functions
in order to understand how they shape meaning. For example, what is the
relationship between how a story is told, what techniques and strategies
are deployed, who does the telling, their perspective and social location,
and the story being told itself? Another focus will be on the connections
between desire, memory, and storytelling. We will explore the possibility
that stories about disaster, war, destruction, injustice, genocide, poverty,
alienation, struggle, and fear as well as stories about love, joy, longing,
desire, pleasure, and victory are not just about survival because the
survivors are the ones who live to tell the stories, but that they are
about survival because we need stories in order to survive.
We will examine our own storytelling -- in our lives as individuals and
in our cultural contexts as members of communities -- to see how myth-making
as well as history-making [both forms of storytelling] function as pedagogical
and ideological activities.
Required Listening: Subcomandante Marcos, Simon Ortiz, and Elena
Poniatowska, Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution
Required Viewing: John Sayles, Lone Star; Deepa Mehta, Fire
Course Requirements: Discussion based class. Students are required
to lead discussion and write several response papers. There will be occasional
quizzes, in-class writing assignments, a midterm, and a final exam. Responding
to your classmates thoughtfully and respectfully and being willing to
challenge yourself round out the list of requirements. A sense of humor
is recommended but not required.
Required Readings:
Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale -- Volume 1 "My Father
Bleeds History". (Random: 1992) ISBN: 0394747232
Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale -- Volume 2 "And Here
My Troubles Began". (Random): 1991) ISBN: 0679729771
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony. (Penguin: 1977) ISBN: 0140086838
Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. (Random:
1992) ISBN: 0345384202
J. Nozipo Maraire, ZenZele: A Letter for My Daughter. (Bantam:
1996) ISBN: 0385318227
engl 023e...001...Introduction to Fiction
(ENGL 12 Link)...Staff...11:00-11:50...mwf
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engl 023e...002...Introduction to Fiction
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engl 023w...001...Introduction to Fiction
Writing...Moose...02:00-03:15...mw
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Writing...Durban...11:00-12:15...tr
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engl 024...001...Contemporary Literature...Sewell,
F...10:00-10:50...mwf
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engl 024...002...Contemporary Literature...Spangler,
M ...12:00-12:50...mwf
Narrative Voice(s). This
course will examine narrative voice and point of view in prose fiction,
drama, poetry, and film. We
will consider texts in which the act of storytelling is so closely aligned
with certain perspectives that it magnifies, diminishes, and sometimes
distorts its own narrative. Important
questions for the course include: What literary techniques do these authors
use to construct point of view in their texts? How does narrative inflect voice and how
does this function in
storytelling? In what ways is the viewer’s perspective vital to the
artistic experience? Accordingly,
part of our project will be to examine the reader’s point
of view as it is constructed and manipulated
by these literary texts.
Requirements: Reading
quizzes; One 5 page paper; One 8 page paper; Bi-weekly reading responses
(1-2 pages); Final Exam; Participation and discussion
Texts:
The Short Stories of John Cheever
The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
Where Trouble Sleeps, Clyde Edgerton
The Cheerleader, Jill McCorkle
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
The Complete Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
The Sixth Sense (film)
engl 024...003...Contemporary Literature...Leiter,
A...02:00-02:50...mwf
In this course we will exam representations of the American South in contemporary literature. We will read works that consider the South of the last twenty years as well as works that re-examine Southern history from a contemporary perspective. Most, but not all, of the authors we will read are from the South. Novels for this course include Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, and Ernest Gaines' A Gathering of Old Men. We will also read shorter selections of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from a variety of authors, including Yusef Komunyakaa, Bobbie Ann Mason, V. S. Naipaul, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith. There will be a midterm, a final, and several short papers.
engl 024...004...Contemporary Literature...Crystall...03:30-04:45...tr
Literature
of Place. When we know where someone was born, raised, and/or
where they live now, we believe that we know something crucial about them.
We are acknowledging the powerful effect that place has on us, how where
we are located shapes who we are. Likewise, the setting of a film, novel,
or short story is thought to be an important component of the work. However,
we often value it less than plot and character. In the literary and filmic
texts in this course, "place" is a critical concern. The places
where these works are situated not only shape the characters and the action
but are shaped by them as well.
Place, as it is used here, refers not only to actual geographical locations,
though this is an extremely important part of what we will examine. However,
it also refers to how we inhabit the places we find ourselves in, what
relations to others are possible, and what is not possible in a particular
place.
In addition to focusing on "place," a seemingly static and easily
marked locus, this course will examine dis-location and dis-placement,
migration and exile, invasion and conquest, division and partition, tourism,
and the many other ways in which and reasons why people move between places.
Place, then, is not a frame into which the contents of a text is poured,
that which contains it, but is in a dynamic relation to the lives of the
people and their stories about which we will read.
Course Requirements: Discussion based class. Students are required to
lead discussion and write several response papers. There will be occasional
quizzes, in-class writing assignments, a midterm, and a final exam. Responding
to your classmates thoughtfully and respectfully and being willing to
challenge yourself and your sense of place round out the list of requirements.
A sense of humor is recommended but not required.
Tentative Reading Schedule:
Tariq Ali, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus
Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Joe Sacco, Palestine
Films:
Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Euzhan Palcy, Sugar Cane Alley
Severo Perez, ...and the earth did not swallow him
Deepa Mehta, Earth
engl 025...001...Introduction to Poetry...Adrian,
J...11:00-11:50...mwf
This
course will introduce students to a range of poetic forms and genres.
Although individual poems will be connected to their historical and cultural
contexts, the emphasis will be on the variety, defining characteristics,
and function of various poetic genres. The course will not be chronological,
but expect a wide sampling of major-and some minor-poets from the medieval
to the contemporary. Requirements: periodic reading quizzes, one
memorization, two papers, midterm, final exam.
Text: The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter edition
engl 025...002...Introduction to Poetry...Wells,
D...01:00-01:50...mwf
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engl 025w...001...Introduction to Poetry
Writing...Anderson, Danny...01:00-01:50...mwf
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engl 025w...002...Introduction to Poetry
Writing...Rabb...03:30-04:45...mw
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engl 025w...003...Introduction to Poetry
Writing...Seay...11:00-12:15...tr
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engl 026...001...Introduction to Drama...Klotz,
L...09:30-10:45...TR
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engl 026...002...Introduction to Drama...Heller,
J...11:00-11:50...mwf
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engl 028...001...Major American Authors...Staff...09:00-09:50...mwf
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engl 028...002...Major American Authors...Hebert,
M...10:00-10:50...mwf
We
will study poetry, drama, short and long fiction to reach a better understanding
of the development of American literature from the mid-19c to the late
20c. These works will provide an introduction to major themes, motifs,
and forms of American literature in light of race, class, and gender issues.
We will use the topic of sexuality as it is presented in these works to
delve deeper into topics such as the American family, the racial situation
and other social categories.
Texts:
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher," selected
poetry
Emily Dickinson: selected poetry
Kate Chopin: The Awakening, selected stories
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
William Faulkner: Sanctuary
Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Walker Percy: Lancelot
James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room
Toni Morrison: Beloved
engl 028...003...Major American Authors...Harper,
J...11:00-11:50...mwf...
American Wastelands. This course explores the manifestations and failures of the
“American Dream” as a uniquely American mythology. As this
course title is “Major American Authors,” most of the works
examined here will be authored by American-born writers and poets though
an exception or two may be made to include fictional accounts of America
by visiting cultural critics. Beginning with T.S. Eliot’s The
Wasteland and continuing through the works of authors such as Fitzgerald,
Faulkner, Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Morrison, the content of this course
opens for debate practical uses of American ideals and aims to chart the
trajectory of these mythic ideals across the varied cultural geographies
of the United States. At issue are the concerns of class distinction and
racial identity, upward mobility, global expansion, consumerism, and popular
or mass culture. Thematically, this course can be best described as examining
“American Wastelands.” Some questions we must ask on our survey
include: How do American culture and American values constitute representations
of race, class, gender, and sexuality? To what extent can the American
Dream be realized and to what ends? In what ways does the cultural inheritance
of Puritanism and capitalism historically determine possibilities in the
twentieth century? Course
Format: This is a reading intensive course including some poetry and
several short stories, but mostly novels. Classes will be discussion-oriented
but prefaced by a short lecture period. Requirements: Tests: midterm, final;
Papers: 2; Reading Journal; Discussion Board; Quizzes
engl 028...004...Major American Authors...Ross...12:00-12:50...mwf
engl 028...005...Major American Authors...Ross...01:00-01:50...mwf
engl 028...006...Major American Authors...McKenna,
C...03:30-04:45...tr
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engl 028...007...Major American Authors...Henderson...11:00-12:15...tr
engl 028...008...Major American Authors...Diamant...02:00-03:15...tr
ENGL 029...001...Honors: Types of Literature...Lensing...09:30-10:45...TR
Drama and Epic. FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. The class will explore poetry and fiction both for content and form. Students will be asked to participate in discussions in class and to write papers on assigned topics. The poetry: Shakespeare's sonnets, selected poems of Emily Dickinson, selected poems of Elizabeth Bishop. The novels: George Eliot, Middlemarch; William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon.
engl 029...002...Honors: Types of Literature...Thornton...11:00-12:15...MW
Epic
and Drama. FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS
ONLY. A reading of representative Western epics and dramas, exploring
the degrees and modes of human freedom and self-determination, and discussing
how literary works achieve their meanings. We will be especially concerned
with the questions of how the potentially deterministic forces acting
upon us have been understood at different periods in Western history,
and of whether we today are subject to such forces. Texts include The
Iliad, The Aeneid, parts of the Bible, Paradise Lost,
The Rape of the Lock, Aristotle's Poetics, and dramas by
Sophocles, Aeschylus, Eugene O'Neill, and W.B. Yeats.
Texts:
Aeschylus, Aeschylus I: Oresteia. (UCP: 1953) ISBN: 0226307786
Virgil, Aeneid of Virgil. Ed., Mandelbaum. (Bantam: 1971) ISBN:
0553210416
Pope, Essay on Man & Other Poems. (Dover: 1994) ISBN: 0486280535
Homer, Iliad of Homer. (UCP: 1951) ISBN: 0226469409
Aristotle, Aristotle on the Art of Poetry. (Oxford: 1920) ISBN:
0198141106
Sophocles, Sophocles I: Three Tragedies. 2nd ed. (UCP: 1992) ISBN: 0226307921
Milton, Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained. (Penguin: 1968) ISBN: 0451524748
O'Neill, Three Plays : Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning
Becomes Electra (Random: 1995) ISBN: 0679763961
ENGL 029...003...Honors: Types of Literature...Kendall...12:30-01:45...tr
Drama and Epic. 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 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 performances during the term: Chekhov's Uncle Vanya here at Playmakers and The Tempest staged by Actors from the London Stage at Duke.
engl 029b...001...Honors: Women's Lives...Langbauer...11:00-12:15...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 autobiography, 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.) Crosslisted with WMST 29B.
Texts:
Susanne Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted. (Vintage) ISBN: 0679746048
Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year. (Harperrerennial)
ISBN: 0060927011
Donald M. Murray, Crafting A Life in Essay, Story, Poem: In Essay,
Story, Poem. (Boynton/Cook) ISBN: 0867094036
Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography. (Vermilion) ISBN:
0312023251
The Fourth Genre. Root, et al. (eds.), 2nd edition (Longman:2001)
ISBN: 0205337155
Course Pack including selections of personal essays and criticism including
Joan Didion, Linda Brodkey, Sidonie Smith, and Joan Scott
engl 029w...001...Honors: Introduction
to Creative Writing...McFee...11:00-12:15...tr
Poetry. 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, going on poetic field trips, 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 031...001...Advanced Composition
& Rhetorical Thry...Lindemann...02:00-03:15...tr
Prepares
prospective language arts teachers with an understanding of current research,
theories, and practices for teaching writing at the secondary level. The
course explores the nature of writing as both social practice and cognitive
process, examining the practical implications of these views for the classroom.
Students also receive opportunities to practice and improve their own
writing. Teaching methods: Discussion, small group activities,
individual projects. Requirements: Weekly short assignments , midterm
essay, final project (a four-week composition unit).
Texts:
Leila Christenbury. Making the Journey, 2nd ed. (Boynton/Cook:2000)
ISBN: 0867094761
engl 034...001...Intermediate Fiction
Writing...Moose...03:30-04:45...mw
engl 034...002...Intermediate Fiction
Writing...Naumoff...09:30-10:45...tr
engl 034P...001...Intermediate Poetry
Writing...Shapiro...11:00-12:15...tr
engl 034p...002...Intermediate Poetry
Writing...Seay...02:00-03:15...tr
engl 035...001...Advanced Fiction Writing...Naumoff...11:00-12:15...tr
engl 035n...001...Reading and Writing
Creative Non-Fiction...Simpson...11:00-12:15...tr
engl 035p...001...Advanced Poetry Writing...McFee...03:30-04:45...tr
engl 038...001...The English Language...Eble...02:00-02:50...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
Course pack
engl 042...001...Movie Criticism...Taylor,
T...02:00-04:50...TR
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engl 043...001...The English Novel...Curtain...01:00-01:50...mwf
engl 045...001...The English Drama to
1642...Dessen...11:00-12:15...tr
This
course will cover representative plays by the contemporaries of Shakespeare,
with an emphasis upon Marlowe, Jonson, and Jacobean tragedy (e.g. The
Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling). Teaching methods: Lecture
and discussion. Requirements: Two papers; a midterm and final exam;
weekly plot-summary quizzes.
Texts:
English Renaissance Drama, ed. Bevington, Engle, Maus, and Rasmussen.
(Norton: 2002) ISBN: 0393976556
engl 047w...001...Stylistics: The Craft
of Contemp Fiction...Durban...02:00-03:15...tr
engl 049c...001...Studies In Literary
Topics...Reinert...09:30-10:45...tr
The
Sentimental, Gothic, and Sublime. From the mid-18th century through
the early 19th century, many British writers were fascinated with the
psychology of emotional extremity, and their fascination took shape in
three major literary modes that we will study in this course. The three
modes--the sentimental, gothic, and sublime--depict the internal drama
of characters isolated by a hostile world. We will begin with mid-century
works of sentimental poetry and fiction. These works dramatize the poignant
condition of the poor and outcast and explore the consolation that such
figures find in the inner world of the imagination. Next, we will read
three seminal gothic novels of the late 18th century. These are novels
of terror and suspense. They depict a world of evil monks, dungeons, and
torture chambers, a world in which fantasy and reality become inextricably
intertwined. Lastly, we will read works in the mode of the sublime, works
which test the limits of the imagination and its power to transcend fearsome
and overwhelming circumstances. Authors in this course will include: Thomas
Gray, William Collins, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Mackenzie,
Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Edmund Burke, James Thomson,
William Cowper, and William Wordsworth. Texts will include six short novels
and a xerox packet. Assignments will include three short papers and a
final exam.
Texts:
Matthew Lewis, The Monk. (Oxford UP: 1980) ISBN: 0192815245
Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling. (Oxford UP: 2002) ISBN: 0192840320
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield. (Oxford UP: 1999) ISBN:
0192839403
Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime & Beautiful.
(Penguin: 1998) ISBN: 0140436251
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto. (Oxford UP: 1982) ISBN:
0192816063
Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance. (Oxford UP: 1993) ISBN: 0192822128
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey. (Penguin: 1967) ISBN: 0140430261
engl 049e...001...Studies In Literary
Topics...Carlston...12:30-01:45...tr
Race,
Gender and Modernisms. In
this class we'll read canonical High Modernist texts alongside lesser-known
works, including selections of poetry and prose fiction, films, essays,
plays, criticism, and song lyrics, and consider the ways these works constituted,
defined, and challenged Modernist "movements" like Imagism,
futurism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Together we will investigate what
these works have to say about gendered, sexual and racial difference;
how they conceptualize "the modern" and their relation to it;
their attitudes towards national identity and how it intersects with racial,
ethnic, gender, class or sexual identity; and their feelings about the
creative process of writing and its relation to gender, sexual or racial
identity.
The
goals of the course are to introduce or expand the concept of aesthetic
modernism, to encourage students to analyze artistic production in the
context of historical, political and cultural phenomena, and to explore
ideas about gender, race and sexuality in the interwar period as expressed
in artistic works.
All
students will be required to attend all scheduled class meetings and films,and
to do a class presentation on material not covered in the required reading.
(Depending on class size, more than one student may work on a presentation,
and/or we may have more than one presentation in a week.) They will also
be asked to prepare a research project, normally a paper of approximately
12-15 pages. Appropriate projects other than a paper may be submitted,
subject to the instructor's approval; these might include, for example,
a dramatic presentation by one or several students, or artwork supported
by critical and bibliographical materials.
Texts:
Djuna
Barnes, Ladies Almanack
Houston
A. Baker, Jr., Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
H.D.,
HERmione
William
Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
E.M.
Forster, Maurice
Nella
Larsen, Passing
Bonnie
Kime Scott, ed. Gender of Modernism
Jean
Toomer, Cane
Course reader
ENGL 049E...002...Studies in Literary
Topics...Thornton...02:00-03:15...MW
Yeats
and Joyce in their Irish Context. Most readers make acquaintance
with Yeats and Joyce in a modernist frame of reference, but both of them
are indubitably Irish writers and are best understood in the context of
their Irish historical, cultural, and literary milieu. This course provides
some of that context, before plunging into the works of the two masters.
We will briefly consider the history of Ireland and the nature of early
Irish myth, and then explore the contexts of the Irish Literary Renaissance,
largely through two of its progenitors, Lady Augusta Gregory and J.M.
Synge. After that we will turn to the works of Yeats and Joyce, devoting
several weeks to the works of each. Teaching method: In the early
weeks, mostly lecture, on Irish history and mythology; as we turn to Lady
Gregory, Synge, Yeats and Joyce, discussion of individual works by those
writers. Requirements: Two short critical papers, one on Yeats
and one on Joyce; a term paper of some ten to fifteen pages; a comprehensive
final examination.
Texts:
Joyce, Dubliners. (Penguin: 1996) ISBN: 0140247742
Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Penguin: 1968) ISBN:
0140155031
Joyce, Ulysses: Corrected Text. (Random: 1986) ISBN: 0394743121
Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne. (Oxford UP) ISBN: 0195197399
Lady Gregory, Selected Plays of Lady Gregory. (Cath U Pr: 1983)
ISBN: 0813205832
Martin, W.B. Yeats. (Dufour Ed:1990) ISBN: 0861403258
Synge, Complete Plays. (Random: 1960) ISBN: 039470178X
Yeats, Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. 2nd ed. (Simon & Schuster:
1989) ISBN: 0684807319
Yeats, Selected Plays. (Evett) ISBN: 0140183744
engl 051...001...English Literature of
the Middle Ages...Leinbaugh...12:00-12:50...mwf
engl 052...001...Chaucer...Leinbaugh...02:00-02:50...mwf
engl 058...001...Shakespeare...Barbour...10:00-10:50...mwf
We
will study about 10 plays from all the genres of Shakespeare’s canon.
Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: 2 papers, midterm,
final exam.
Texts:
The Riverside Shakespeare. Evans et al, ed. (Houghton Mifflin:
1997) ISBN: 0395754909
ENGL 058...002...Shakespeare...Goldberg...02:00-02:50...MWF
Texts:
Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Harbage, ed. (Penguin:1969) ISBN:
0140714499
Coursepak
engl 058...004...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. Evans et al, ed. (Houghton Mifflin:
1997) ISBN: 0395754909
The Riverside Shakespeare is the text of choice, but you may substitute
any other reputable anthology or single play editions
engl 058...005...Shakespeare...Dessen...02:00-03:15...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...006...Shakespeare...Armitage...03:30-04:45...tr
The
agenda is the study of ten of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies,
and romances. A quiz occurs when each play is first taken up in class;
a mid-term test and a cumulative final exam are also required. Informed
discussion by students is encouraged.
Texts:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed., ed. David Bevington.
(Addison-Wesley: 1997) ISBN: 0321012542
engl 058h...001...Shakespeare (HONORS)...Gless...09:30-10:45...tr
Studies
in Shakespeare. Our mutual goals in Engl 58 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 number 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.
Texts:
Norton Shakespeare, Greenblatt ed. (Norton: 1997) ISBN: 0393970876
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 060...002...Seventeenth-Century English
Literature...Matchinske...12:30-01:45...tr
In
this course, we will interrogate the social, historical, and representational
dimensions of the 17th-century literature and culture in England. Through
a variety of poetry and prose accounts of the period, as well as work
by contemporary social historians and cultural theorists, we will consider
topics including, but not limited to, changing definitions of church and
state, shifts in gender assumptions, and obligations, and realignments
in hierarchy and status determination. This course will focus on the many
"values" (moral, ethical, religious, sexual, political, and
economic) that are both announced and erased in the years between James
I's ascension to the throne in 1603 and the return of monarchial rule
to England in 1660. Students will be asked to consider poetry and prose
accounts culturally, in terms of the material circumstances of their writing.
Teaching methods: Classtime will be spent in lecture and group
discussion of pertinent texts. Requirements: Weekly writing assignments;
two papers (8-10 pages); final exam.
Texts:
Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen.
Ed. Elspeth Graham. London: Routledge, 1989.
The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Alastair Fowler,
ed. (Oxford UP: 2002) ISBN: 019282996
Course pack
engl 064...001...Milton...Barbour...12:00-12:50...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....Thompson...09:30-10:45...tr
English
65 is a survey of English drama, particularly comedy, from the late seventeenth
to the mid eighteenth century. We will read a relatively large number
of plays from both male and female playwrights over this short period
of time in order to read comedy as a reflection social history. In particular,
we will trace the ways in which comic form is transformed to accommodate
and to celebrate evolving early modern concepts of love and marriage.
In addition, we will read three short critical essays on flirting, wit,
and social space to theorize comedy of manners. Teaching methods:
Discussion with the occasional lecture. Requirements: Two papers,
collective midterm, final, and daily writing.
Texts:
British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan, ed. Nettleton, (Southern
Illinois: 1969) ISBN: 080930743x
Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Plays by
Women, ed. Rogers, (DIANE: 1998) ISBN: 0788157841
engl 066...001...Prose & Poetry of
the Classical Period...Stumpf...01:00-01:50...mwf
engl 072...001...The Chief Romantic Poets...Kirkpatrick...12:30-01:45...tr
engl 073...001...English Literature, 1832-1890...Life...11:00-12:15...tr
A
detailed critical examination of poetry and prose by Dickens, Tennyson,
Browning, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and other major authors of the period.
Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Two essays written in class; one term paper; final exam.
Texts:
Houghton and Stange, Victorian Poetry and Poetics. 2nd ed. (Houghton
Mifflin: 1968) ISBN: 0395046467
Charles Dickens, Bleak House. (Norton: 1977) ISBN: 0393093328
engl 073...002...English Literature, 1832-1890...Taylor,
B...03:30-04:45...tr
Study
of major writers of the Victorian period: Tennyson, Browning, Barrett
Browning, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte. We
will focus on these writers' artistry and their responses to changes that
signalled the advent of the "modern world." Teaching methods:
Discussion with some lecture. Requirements: 2 tests, 2 papers,
and final exam.
Texts:
Gates, Classic Slave Narratives. (Penguin: 1987) ISBN: 0451627261
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. (Penguin: 1966) ISBN: 0140430113
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. (Penguin: 1965) ISBN: 0140430032
Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry (concise ed.), T. Collins
& V Rundle, eds. (Broadview) ISBN: 155111366x
course-pak
engl 081...001...American Literature from
1865 to 1930...Rust...11:00-11:50...mwf
engl 081...002...American Literature from
1865 to 1930...Flora...03:30-04:45...tr
This
course will study American Literature and the American experience between
World War I and World War II. At its center will be Ernest Hemingway and
his circle Teaching methods: Lecture, discussion, performance.
Requirements: 2 one hour examinations, 2 critical papers, and a
final examination.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Between the Wars, 1914-1945.
6th ed., Vol D (Norton: 2003) ISBN: 0393979008
Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women. (Scribner: 1997) ISBN: 0684825864
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. (Scribner: 1995) ISBN: 0684801469
engl 082...001...American Literature from
1930 to present...Coleman...12:30-01:45...tr
Study
of the fiction and poetry of significant American writers from 1890 to
the present, with an emphasis on works that have traditionally been a
part of the canon and also those that have not. Puts an equal emphasis
on works by women, blacks, and others. Uses the writers to analyze the
twentieth-century American tradition in all of its diversity. Teaching
methods: A combination of lecture and discussion. Requirements:
Midterm and final exam and a midterm and final paper.
Texts:
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2, 4rd ed., (Houghton
Mifflin: 2002) ISBN: 061810920X
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury. (Vintage: 1990) ISBN:
067973224D
Toni Morrison, Beloved. (Plume: 1994) ISBN: 0452261368
engl 083...001...The American Novel...Hobson...01:00-01:50...mwf
This
course will examine the American novel from the mid-nineteenth century
through the mid-twentieth, beginning with The Scarlet Letter and
going through Beloved. We will examine the novels not only as works
of art but also as reflections of their times and places-as social and
cultural commentary. Major writers included are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman
Melville, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison.
Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion (students should be prepared
to discuss). Requirements: Two exams during the term; final examination;
one long paper (about 10-15 pp.); possible quizzes or oral reports.
Texts:
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. (Penguin: 1959) ISBN: 0451525221
Melville, Moby Dick. (Signet: 1998) ISBN: 0451526996
James, Portrait of a Lady. (Houghton Mifflin: 1956) ISBN: 0395051061
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Dover: 1994) ISBN:
0486280616
Chopin, The Awakening. (Berkley: 1964) ISBN: 1573225118
Dreiser, Sister Carrie. (Bantam: 1958) ISBN: 0553213741
Wharton, The House of Mirth. (Penguin: 1980) ISBN: 0451523628
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. (Simon & Schuster: 1926) ISBN:
0684800713
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. (Simon & Schuster: 1992) ISBN:
0684801523
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (Random: 1986) ISBN: 0679732187
Ellison, Invisible Man