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Course Descriptions Class Numbers Are Included in Parentheses Following the Course Catalogue Number and Are Followed, When Applicable, By the Previous Course Catalogue Number 1330-001+ (2612) [1320]. THE WORLD OF SHAKESPEARE. 10 MWF. Hyer 100. Mr. Neel. Introductory study of nine major plays (such tragedies as Hamlet and Macbeth, such histories as Richard III and Henry V, such comedies as Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure), with background material on cultural, historical, and literary topics. Lectures include taped professional performances of scenes; required or recommended viewing of selected performances on stage, film, and television. Writing assignments: frequent quizzes, three one-hour essay tests, final examination. Enrollment limit: 95. Texts: Individual editions of the assigned plays; additional background materials. 2302-001 (3726) [2302]. BUSINESS WRITING. 3:30 TTh. G18 Clements. Instructor: TBA. This course introduces students to business and professional communication, including a variety of writing and speaking tasks, and the observation and practice of rhetorical strategies, discourse conventions, and ethical standards associated with workplace culture. The course includes much active learning, which means students will attend events on campus and off and will conduct a detailed field research project at a worksite. The course meets in a computer lab, and may not be counted toward requirements for the English major. Writing assignments: summaries, analyses, evaluations, letters, reports, memoranda, and individual and collaborative research reports, both oral and written. Enrollment limit: 15. Texts: Van Rys, Meyer, Sebranek, The Business Writer; Trimmer, A Guide to MLA Documentation; Pelton & True, Business Ethics: Perspectives on Corporate Responsibility. (All three texts are shrink-packed.) Additional texts to be placed on reserve or distributed in class. 2302-003 (6181) [2302]. BUSINESS WRITING. 12:30 TTh. G16 Clements. Ms. Tongate. This course introduces students to business and professional communication, including a variety of writing and speaking tasks, and the observation and practice of rhetorical strategies, discourse conventions, and ethical standards associated with workplace culture. The course includes much active learning, which means students will attend events on campus and off and will conduct a detailed field research project at a worksite. The course meets in a computer lab, and may not be counted toward requirements for the English major. Writing assignments: summaries, analyses, evaluations, letters, reports, memoranda, and individual and collaborative research reports, both oral and written. Enrollment limit: 15. Texts: Van Rys, Meyer, Sebranek, The Business Writer; Trimmer, A Guide to MLA Documentation; Pelton & True, Business Ethics: Perspectives on Corporate Responsibility. (All three texts are shrink-packed.) Additional texts to be placed on reserve or distributed in class. 2311-001 (3352) [2305]. POETRY. 12 MWF. 107 Hyer. Mr. Daniels. An introduction to the study of poetry and how it works, examining a wide range of poems by English and American writers. Special attention to writing about literature. Writing assignments: commentaries, exercises, in-class writing, three short essays, two hour tests. Enrollment limit: 20. Text: Gwynn, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. 2311-002 (2613) [2305]. POETRY. 11 TTH. 120 Dallas Hall. Mr. Holahan. An introduction to the reading, study, discussion, and enjoyment of poetry. Topics range from meter and rhythm to diction, image, metaphor, symbol, and theme, as well as to different types of poems and kinds of interpretation. Writing assignments: short essays, occasional quizzes and in-class writing, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Text: Kennedy and Gioia, An Introduction to Poetry. 2311-003 (2614) [2305]. POETRY. 12:30 TTh. 337 Dallas Hall. Ms. Newman. An introduction to the study of poetry and how it works, examining a wide range of poems by English and American writers. Special attention to writing about literature. Writing assignments: several short papers, two four-page essays, one or two short in-class presentations, memorization exercise, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry; Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms; Lunsford and Connors, EasyWriter. 2312-001+ (2615) [2306]. FICTION. 9 MWF. 120 Dallas Hall. Mr. Crusius. An introduction to the art of fiction. Emphasis on recent novels and short stories. Special concern with satire, comedy, and humor. Writing assignments: quizzes, three essays, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; Delillo, White Noise; Alexie, Reservation Blues; Proulx, Close Range. 2312-002H+ (5375) [2306]. FICTION. 11 MWF. 120 Dallas Hall. Mr. Daniels. Study in the art of fiction, with readings ranging from shorter forms to novels and from traditional to innovative modes of story-telling. Emphasis on reading for pleasure and understanding. Writing assignments: commentaries, quizzes, in-class writing, three essays, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: TBA. 2312-003+ (5644). [2306] FICTION. 1 MWF. 137 Dallas Hall. Mr. Lewis. A survey of major modes and period styles of prose fiction from about the beginning of the century before last to the present. We shall begin with a contemporary dark fantasy and end with a postmodern quest novel. In between, we shall focus on stories in the Gothic vein. Writing assignments: four short essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Gaiman, American Gods; Pynchon, V; Oates, ed., American Gothic Tales. 2314-001H+ (3081) [2308]. DOING THINGS WITH POEMS. 9:30 TTh. 351 Dallas Hall. Mr. Spiegelman. Introduction to the study of poems, poets, and how poetry works, focusing on a wide range of English and American writers. Some attention to matters of literary history. Writing assignments: approximately five short essays, daily paragraphs, final examination if necessary. Students will memorize 100 lines of poetry. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Vendler, Poems, Poets, Poetry; Hollander, Rhyme’s Reason. 2315-001 (5272). INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY. 12 MWF. 137 Dallas Hall. Ms. Siraganian. Introduction to the discipline for beginning English majors, covering methods of literary analysis in selected texts spanning a range of genres and historical periods. Writing assignments: brief weekly exercises, four essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Holman and Harmon, A Handbook to Literature; Poe, selected short stories; DeLillo, White Noise; Austen, Emma; Heckerling (director), Clueless; Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Shakespeare, As You Like It; selected readings available online and in handouts. 2315-002 (5274). INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY. 11 TTH. 351 Dallas Hall. Ms. Schwartz. Introduction to the discipline for beginning English majors, covering methods of literary analysis in selected texts spanning a range of genres and historical periods. Writing assignments: brief weekly exercises, four essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Holman and Harmon, A Handbook to Literature; Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49; Homer, The Odyssey; Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; selected readings available online and in handouts.
2315-003 (5579). INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY. 3:30 TTH. 156 Dallas Hall. Ms. Bost. Introduction to the discipline for beginning English majors, covering methods of literary analysis in selected texts spanning a range of genres and historical periods. Writing assignments: brief weekly exercises, three short essays, one research essay, two examinations. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Holman and Harmon, A Handbook to Literature; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Brontë, Jane Eyre; Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek; selected poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Bradstreet, Keats, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Rich, Cervantes, and others; additional critical essays. 2371-701 (3614) [2321]. DAWN OF WISDOM. (Cross-listed as Anth 2321 (5510) and CFA 3301H (3862)). 6:30 T. 102 Dallas Hall. Mr. Lewis, Mr. Freidel. The course explores the visions of the cosmos expressed in art, archeology, and literature of Mesopotamian, Greco-Roman, Navajo, and Maya civilizations, emphasizing the role of human beings as central and responsible actors therein. Writing assignments: a reading and viewing journal, two medium-length essays, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days; The Homeric Hymns; The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Diné Bahané; The Popol Vuh; Ovid, Metamorphoses.
2391-001 (2950) [2391]. INTRODUCTORY POETRY WRITING. 11 TTh. 137 Dallas Hall. Mr. Myers. A workshop in which student poetry and directed exercises in basic techniques form the content of the course. Open to everyone, regardless of background and experience in poetry. Emphasis on contemporary poetry. Writing assignments: 12-15 poems, along with journaling and annotations on books read. Enrollment limit: 15. Texts: Myers & Weingarten, New American Poets of the 90s; Myers, The Portable Poetry Workshop.
2392-001 (3502) [2392]. INTRODUCTORY FICTION WRITING. 12:30 TTh. 138 Dallas Hall. Mr. Smith. A beginning workshop in theory and technique, and writing of fiction. Writing assignments: various class exercises, writing and rewriting short stories. Enrollment limit: 15. Texts: Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction; Smith, Letters from the Horse Latitudes.
2392-002 (3503) [2392]. INTRODUCTORY FICTION WRITING. 2 TTh. 137 Dallas Hall. Mr. Haynes. A beginning workshop in theory and technique, and writing of fiction. Writing assignments: various class exercises, writing and rewriting short stories. Enrollment limit: 15. Text: Moore, ed., Best American Short Stories 2004. 3189 (3653) [3199]. DIRECTED STUDIES. ARR. Directed readings in a coherent area of a student’s choice to be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the instructor. Writing will be assigned appropriate to the focus of the course. Permission of the instructor required. 3308-P23 (3375) [3398]. ENGLISH STUDIES INTERNSHIP. ARR. Mr. Crusius. Work experience related to English studies, with instruction in professional communication and one-on-one consultation with the instructor. Open by permission to a limited number of junior and senior English majors. 3310-001 (2616) [3304]. CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE. 8 MWF. 102 Dallas Hall. Mr. Crusius. What is literature? How do we read it, and why? What counts as "literature"? How can students make sense of and make use of literary criticism? This course addresses these questions by introducing the linguistic, cultural, and theoretical issues informing contemporary literary discourse, as well as by studying some literary texts and contemporary interpretations of them. Writing assignments: three short essays, slightly longer final essay, occasional informal writing assignments, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction; James, The Turn of the Screw; Lynn, Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory; selected works of poetry and criticism; course reader from "Impressions." 3310-002 (2617) [3304]. CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE. 1 MWF. 106 Hyer. Mr. Zeigler. What is literature? How do we read it, and why? How can students make sense of and practice literary theory and critical theory? The course addresses these questions by examining the theoretical issues that have inspired recent developments in literary study and by adopting a comparative approach to our discipline's methods of interpretation. Writing assignments: response papers, two short essays, longer "casebook" essay, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: TBA. 3310-003 (5381) [3304]. CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE. 12:30 TTh. 101 Dallas Hall. Mr. Murfin. What is literature? How do we read it, and why? What counts as "literature"? How can students make sense of and make use of literary criticism? This course addresses these questions by introducing the linguistic, cultural, and theoretical issues informing contemporary literary discourse, as well as by studying some literary texts and contemporary interpretations of them. Writing assignments: weekly in-class short exercises, one short essay, one longer essay, final examination. Enrollment limit: 20. Texts: Brontë, ‘Wuthering Heights’: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism; Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism and ‘The Secret Sharer’: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism; Shelley, ‘Frankenstein’: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. 3331-001 (3494) [3305]. BRITISH LITERARY HISTORY I: CHAUCER TO POPE. 11 MWF. 201 Hyer. Mr. Rosendale. Introduction to the major works, issues, and periods of earlier English literature (c. 1300-1750), with practice in close reading and analysis of texts. Authors covered include Chaucer, Langland, More, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope. Writing assignments: three or four short essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I (7th edition). 3331-002 (5594) [3305]. BRITISH LITERARY HISTORY I: CHAUCER TO POPE. 11 TTH. 107 Hyer. Mr. Bozorth. Introduction to the major works, issues, and periods of earlier English literature, with practice in close reading and analysis of texts from the Anglo-Saxon period, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and into the Augustan Age. We shall give attention to the evolving relationship between religious and secular concerns from the Catholic Middle Ages through the Reformation and beyond. We shall spend extra time on texts like Beowulf, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Milton's Paradise Lost. Lectures comprise roughly one-third of the meetings; the remainder are discussions. Writing assignments: one-page response papers and several essays, totaling 20 pages; mid-term; final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I (7th edition); Lunsford, EasyWriter; 3340-001+ (5523). TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: VICTORIAN POETRY. 3MW. 101 Dallas Hall. Mr. Daniels. A study of major Victorian poets, focusing on their individual approaches to literary tradition and to their culture and on the struggle in the foreground or background of their work between the private voice and the public role of the poet. The poets studied will be Tennyson (Loner and Laureate), Browning (Hiding Out in the Open), Arnold (Dialogue of the Mind With/Against Itself), Swinburne (Music and Mischief), Hopkins (Idiosyncratic Submission). Writing assignments: quizzes, commentaries, three short essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: TBA. 3362-001+# (5828) [3367]. AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. TBA. TBA. Mr. Dickson-Carr. The course is devoted to the study of key texts and authors in African American literary history, both works considered essential within the tradition of African American literature and recent works that are decidedly nontraditional. We shall pay special attention to the way in which African Americans have constructed and developed individual identities and communities through shared experiences in these works in order to explore issues of “race,” class, and gender; the nature of oppression; and the possibilities of transcendence. The ultimate goals of the course are to seek through the literature a better understanding of the situation and dynamics of Black communities and the individuals within them; and to help broaden our understanding of American history and culture via the insights African American literature provides. Writing assignments: quizzes, commentaries, two essays (one requiring research), final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk; Washington, Up from Slavery (excerpts); Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Wright, Native Son; Ellison, Invisible Man; Morrison, Beloved; Butler, Parable of the Sower; Everett, Erasure; additional poems, essays, and criticism. 3363-701+# (5524) [3371]. CHICANA/CHICANO LITERATURE. 6:30 T. 111 Hyer Hall. Ms. Bost. This course will introduce a variety of perspectives by Chicana and Chicano writers, emphasizing diversity rather than some presumably shared “Chicano experience.” We will compare and contrast different representations of Chicana/o identity, paying particular attention to language, literary form, race, gender, nation, sexuality, landscape, and (im)migration. Some knowledge of Spanish will be helpful to students but is not required. Writing assignments: brief weekly exercises, three essays, final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: Paredes, With His Pistol in His Hand; Villarreal, Pocho; Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera; Valdéz, Zoot Suit; Hinojosa, Klail City; Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek; Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus; selected poems and essays. ENGL 3366-001 (5525) [3307]. AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY II. 3:30 TTh. 102 Dallas Hall. Mr. Weisenburger. The period from 1865 through the 20th century brought radical change and continual crisis to American society: Reconstruction, segregation, industrialized and urbanized daily work and life, civil rights struggles, war (after war), and the emergence of the U.S. as a (the) global power. This course surveys representative stories, poems, novels, essays, and plays from the period, works responding to social change while also changing literary art. Writing assignments: four short essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: TBA. 3374–001H (5526) [3363]. LITERATURE OF RELIGIOUS REFLECTION. (Cross-listed as CF 3345 [5628]). 8TTh. 101 Dallas Hall. Mr. Murfin. Examination of issues of faith and doubt in British and American literature, drawn from texts reflecting both Christian and Jewish traditions as well as secular rationalism, agnostic questioning, romantic vision, meditative mysticism, and other modern approaches to religious and spiritual issues. Writing assignments: three essays, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 22. Texts: George Eliot, Adam Bede; Potok, The Chosen; poems by Donne, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and others; essays by a variety of authors in the Judeo-Christian tradition. 3381-001 (5679). SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE: REPRESENTING DIASPORA. 2 MWF. 157 Dallas Hall. Ms. Siraganian. How are people related to their ancestral homeland? The course examines the relation between a people and their physical locale, a thing and its place, an artwork and its context; and entails the analysis of form, technique and meaning in literary and textual representation, in comparison--or conjunction--with other representational media such as sculpture, cinema and graphic novels. Writing assignments: brief weekly exercises, three essays, one research essay, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: Films include Spielberg, Amistad; Wang, Chan is Missing; Egoyan, Calendar; Mehta, Earth; Books include Yezierska, Bread Givers; Williams, In The American Grain; Spiegelman, Maus; Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. Earthwork art by Smithson, Morris, Nash, Goldsworthy, among others. 3383-001 (5527) [3348]. LITERARY EXECUTIONS. (Cross-listed as CF 3305 (5719)). 9:30 TTh. 156 Dallas Hall. Mr. Holahan. A study of the literary treatment of capital punishment. The aim is to locate a social issue of continuing importance within literary traditions that permit a different kind of analysis from that given in moral, social, and legal discourse. The literary forms include drama, lyric, novel, and biography; the periods of history represented range from the English Reformation and the Elizabethan Renaissance to the English Civil War, the French Revolution, and contemporary America. Writing assignments: three short essays, final examination. Enrollment limit: 30. Texts: Bolt, A Man for All Seasons; Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Tower" Lyrics; Shakespeare, Othello and Macbeth; Andrew Marvell, "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland"; Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities; Capote, In Cold Blood. 3389 (3654) [3399]. DIRECTED STUDIES. ARR. Directed readings in a coherent area of the student's choice, to be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the instructor. Writing will be assigned appropriate to the focus of the course. Permission of the instructor required. 3392-001 (2618) [3392]. INTERMEDIATE FICTION WRITING. 3:30 TTh. 137 Dallas Hall. Mr. Smith. An intermediate workshop in fiction writing, building on craft techniques taught in ENGL 2392. Writing assignments: various class exercises, writing and rewriting short stories. Enrollment limit: 15. Prerequisite: ENGL 2392. Text: Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. 4332-001^ (5830). STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE: RENAISSANCE DRAMA. 1 MWF. 143 Dallas Hall. Mr. Rosendale. William Shakespeare wasn’t the only game in town in Renaissance England; even without him, it was a period of extraordinary (some would say unparalleled) achievement in drama. This course will survey thirteen plays by Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Marston, Ford, Beaumont, Webster, and other remarkable playwrights of this era (c. 1580-1635) to more fully understand its range of dramatic productivity. We will also engage with recent criticism as a way of sharpening and deepening our own encounters with these texts. Writing assignments: presentations, two mid-length writing projects, final examination. Enrollment limit: 18. Texts: TBA. 4333-001 (3091) [4332]. SHAKESPEARE. 2 TTh. 351 Dallas Hall. Mr. Holahan. Close reading of the major tragedies along with representative later comedies, problem plays, and romances. Reading will be supplemented by the viewing of videotaped performances. Writing assignments: three essays, quizzes, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 18. Text: Greenblatt, ed., The Norton Shakespeare. 4345-001 (5528) [4363]. AMERICAN WRITERS IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: HAWTHORNE AND MELVILLE. 3 MW. 351 Dallas Hall. Mr. Lewis. A walk on the dark side of American Romanticism. In an age of popular ferment over democracy and conflicts over westward expansion and slavery, Hawthorne and Melville strongly dissented from the high-profile optimists of their era, including Transcendentalists like Emerson and nationalists like John L. O’Sullivan (“Manifest Destiny”). Aspiring to create a national literature that would rival those of Europe, they mapped out in their fiction a psychic terrain in which the anxieties of the age played themselves out in grotesque masquerade. By so doing they charted a course that would be pursued by later writers like Henry James, Willliam Faulkner, and Thomas Pynchon. Writing assignments: two essays, one research essay, mid-term, final examination. Enrollment limit: 18. Texts: Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun; Melville, Mardi, Pierre, The Confidence-Man. 4360-001 (5532) [4373]. STUDIES IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE: SIX AMERICAN POETS: 1946-2006. 12:30 TTH. 102 Dallas Hall. Mr. Spiegelman. This course will look in depth at the poetry of John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Robert Lowell, and James Merrill, six major poets of the post-World War II generation. We shall examine the way each poet built his or her career, and how the changes through the work of each are reflected in the changes through the work of all. The intersections and relationships among them will allow us to take the measure of their achievement. We will pay some attention to their reputations, as well as the changes in their reputations, and to the scholarship and criticism that have grown up around them. Writing assignments: several short essays, one longer essay, final examination . Enrollment limit: 18. Texts: TBA. 4360-002 (5533) [4373]. STUDIES IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE: READING RACE. 6:30 T. 106 Dallas Hall. Mr. Weisenburger. A course of readings in selected U.S. fictions concentrating on representations of interraciality and the color-line. Broadly speaking, this course concentrates on how "race" was imagined and used in modern America. Specifically we will study how writers understood interracial relationships and persons as a core problem for the idea of a fixed boundary between "whites" and "others." Reading from both anti-racist and overtly white supremacist novels, we will ask how the novels use different understandings of "race" (as biological or as cultural matter) to trouble or to re-stabilize the color line, and how they represent this work as crucial to the Nation. Writing requirements: several short writings, one research essay, take-home final examination. Enrollment limit: 18 Texts: Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition; Dixon, Sins of the Father; Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; Larsen, Passing; Gray, The Vanishing American; Faulkner, Go Down, Moses; Petry, The Narrows; Momaday, House Made of Dawn. 4369-001 (5529) [4372]. TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY APOCALYPSE. 9:30 TTh. 137 Dallas Hall. Mr. Bozorth. The world has been coming to an end for more than a century. We shall read, talk, and write about how writers in Britain, Ireland, and the U.S. have expressed this anxiety (or fantasy) in plays, poetry, and fiction since the 1890s. Along the way, we'll consider cultural and historical phenomena that have pushed people to think that the End Is Near (or Here): world war and the Holocaust; the "death" of God and/or Christianity; the horrible, wonderful rise of modern mass media and commercialism; revolutions in the ways people think about and practice sex and gender. Writing assignments: shorter and longer essays totaling twenty pages, library research, leading class discussion, final examination. Enrollment limit: 18. Texts: Wilde, Salome; Yeats, selected poems; Eliot, The Waste Land; Woolf, To the Lighthouse; Forster, A Passage to India; Beckett, Endgame; Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library. 4392-001 (3092) [4392]. ADVANCED FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP. 12:30 TTh. 137 Dallas Hall. Mr. Haynes. Advanced workshop for students seriously interested in writing the short story or novel. Each student is required to have a story ready for reading to the class for discussion by first class meeting. Writing assignments: At least three works of original fiction created during the semester. Enrollment limit: 10. Prerequisites: ENGL 3392 and permission of the instructor. Texts: Baxter and Turchi, eds., Bringing the Devil to His Knees; Chabon, ed., Best American Short Stories 2005. 4393/4395 (5534/5536). DIRECTED STUDIES IN POETRY WRITING. Admission by permission only. For students who have completed the 12 hour sequence in Poetry Writing. 4394/4396 (5535/4098). DIRECTED STUDIES IN FICTION WRITING. Admission by permission only. For students who have completed the 12 hour sequence in Fiction Writing. 4397-001. (5561) [4301]. CRAFT OF POETRY. 2 TTh. 337 Dallas Hall. Mr. Myers. Workshop in which student poetry, directed exercises in basic techniques, and readings of twentieth-century poetic history form the content of the course. Writing assignments: 12-15 poems. Enrollment limit: 15. Prerequisite: ENGL 2391. Texts: Myers, The Portable Poetry Workshop; Myers and Wojahn, A Profile of American Poetry in the Twentieth Century; Myers, The Dictionary of Poetic Terms (recommended). 5310-001 (2619) [5349]. SEMINAR IN LITERARY THEORY. 2 M. 138 Dallas Hall. Mr. Foster. An introduction to some of the philosophical and theoretical writings necessary to understand current critical practice. We shall examine assumptions underlying traditional critical methods and then work toward some of the interpretive practices that have more recently come into prominence, including discussions of "deconstructive," psychoanalytic, feminist, New Historical, and cultural approaches to literature. The texts we shall read include essays by Eliot, Foucault, Saussure, Derrida, Barthes, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and Badiou. Writing assignments: several short essays, one seminar essay. Enrollment limit: 15. Permission of instructor required. Texts: TBA 5381, 5382, 5383 (3911, 3912, 3913) [5301, 5302, 5303]. INDEPENDENT STUDIES FOR DISTINCTION CANDIDATES. Directed readings in an area of the student's choice, to be approved by the instructor who has agreed to work with the student and by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Weekly meetings with the instructor. Writing assignments: at least 5000 words of writing in a form to be determined by student and instructor. 6392-001. (5565) [6392] SEMINAR: LITERATURE, INDUSTRY, AND REFORM IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND. 2 W. 137 Dallas Hall. Ms. Newman. An exploration of the way nineteenth-century English writers responded to industrialization and urbanization. Some attention to the early nineteenth-century (pre-Victorian) engagement with these issues, especially in poetry; emphasis on Victorian fiction, including one novel (Middlemarch) in which these social issues are in the background rather than the foreground. Writing assignments: one or two presentations, with write-ups, on assigned outside but relevant reading; one short essay; one longer, multi-source essay; final examination. Enrollment limit: 12. Texts: Martineau, Principles of Political Economy; Kingsley, Alton Locke (to be downloaded from the web); Dickens, Hard Times; Gaskell, North and South; George Eliot, Middlemarch; Gissing, New Grub Street; poems and essays to be distributed or downloaded. |