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ENGL 395 Dissenting Americans 6 credits
This course examines the rich and powerful tradition of political dissent in American literature. How does the complex interplay of text, esthetics, and reception shape the politics of dissent? We will read several key texts from the nineteenthth century, and then explore selected works of fiction, graphic memoir, and drama from the early Cold War era. In this mid-twentieth century moment, we will focus in particular on Asian American, African American, and queer critique. Readings in criticism will be central to the course and students will complete a major research paper of their own design.
- Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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English 295 and one 300 level English course
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ENGL 395 Murder 6 credits
From the ancient Greeks to the King James Bible to the modern serial killer novel, murder has always been a preeminent topic of intellectual and artistic investigation. Slaying our way across different genres and periods, we will explore why homicide has been the subject of such fierce attention from so many great minds. Prepare to drench yourselves in the blood of fiction and non-fiction works that may include: the Bible, Shakespeare, Poe, Thompson, Capote, Tey, McGinniss, Malcolm, Wilder, and Morris, as well as legal and other materials. Warning: not for the faint-hearted.
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 187
- Spring 2017, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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English 295 and one 300-level English course
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ENGL 395 Narrative 6 credits
Roland Barthes claims that “narrative is international, transhistorical, transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself.” Yet metahistorian Hayden White wonders, “Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories?” To study narrative is to confront art’s distinctive interplay of fiction and nonfiction, invention and truth. We will read contemporary narrative theory by critics from several disciplines and apply their theories to textual and visual narratives such as literary texts, graphic novels, films, images, television shows, advertisements, and music videos. Students will collaborate on a digital storytelling project.
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 362
- Fall 2020, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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English 295 and one 300 level English course
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ENGL 395.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 395.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 395 Seductive Fictions 6 credits
Stories of virtue in distress and innocence ruined preoccupied English novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This course will focus on the English seduction novel, considering the following questions: What was the allure of the seduction plot? What does it reveal about sexual relations, gender, power, and class during this period? How does the seduction plot address and provoke concerns about novel-reading itself during a time when the novel was considered both an instrument of education and an agent of moral corruption? Authors include: Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Choderlos de Laclos, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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English 295 and one 300 level English course
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ENGL 395.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Leiman 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 395 The Twenty-First Century Novel 6 credits
This seminar focuses on fictional masterpieces published since 2005. We will map out the threads of multiple storylines and track the variety of voices and dialects in Verghese’s Cutting for Stone, Adichie’s Americanah, and James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings. The heft and scope of these three long narratives will be complemented by shorter, but equally multilayered, ones including Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, Selasi’s Ghana Must Go, Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, and Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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English 295 and one 300-level English course
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ENGL 395.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENGL 395 Yeats and Heaney 6 credits
“How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and his contemporary world?”–Heaney. We will read the major works and literary criticism of the two great twentieth-century Irish poets W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, studying their art in relation to their place and time. Prerequisite: English 295 and one 300-level course, or by permission of the instructor
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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English 295 and one 300 level English course