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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ENGL Historical Era 3 · returned 17 results
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ENGL 230 Studies in African American Literature: From the 1950s to the Present 6 credits
We will explore developments in African American literature since the 1950s with a focus on literary expression in the Civil Rights Era; on the Black Arts Movement; on the new wave of feminist/womanist writing; and on the experimental and futuristic fictions of the twenty-first century. Authors to be read include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, August Wilson, Charles Johnson, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kevin Young, and Tracy Smith.
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ENGL 235 Asian American Literature 6 credits
This course is an introduction to major works and authors of fiction, drama, and poetry from about 1900 to the present. We will trace the development of Asian American literary traditions while exploring the rich diversity of recent voices in the field. Authors to be read include Carlos Bulosan, Sui Sin Far, Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Milton Murayama, Chang-rae Lee, Li-young Lee, and John Okada.
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ENGL 236 American Nature Writing 6 credits
A study of the environmental imagination in American literature. We will explore the relationship between literature and the natural sciences and examine questions of style, narrative, and representation in the light of larger social, ethical, and political concerns about the environment. Authors read will include Thoreau, Muir, Jeffers, Abbey, and Leopold. Students will write a creative Natural History essay as part of the course requirements.
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ENGL 238 African Literature in English 6 credits
This is a course on texts drawn from English-speaking Africa since the 1950’s. Authors to be read include Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Benjamin Kwakye, and Wole Soyinka.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 246 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Beyond Bollywood 3 credits
While the output of the popular Hindi film industry of Mumbai, also known as Bollywood, has global reach and renown, other genres of films produced in Mumbai are not as well-known or studied. In this course, students will encounter independent feature films, documentaries and short films that will expand their understanding of the larger world of Hindi cinema in particular, and Indian cinema more broadly.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul, 5 week course
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in the Film Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program
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ENGL 249 Modern Irish Literature: Poetry, Prose, and Politics 6 credits
What can and should be the role of literature in times of bitter political conflict? Caught in partisan strife, Irish writers have grappled personally and painfully with the question. We will read works by Joyce, Yeats, and Heaney, among others, and watch films (Bloody Sunday, Hunger) that confront the deep and ongoing divisions in Irish political life.
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 251 Contemporary Indian Fiction 6 credits
Contemporary Indian writers, based either in India or abroad, have become significant figures in the global literary landscape. This can be traced to the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children in 1981. We will begin with that novel and read some of the other notable works of fiction of the following decades. The class will provide both a thorough grounding in the contemporary Indian literary scene as well as an introduction to some concepts in post-colonial studies.
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ENGL 251.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENGL 255 The Poetics of Disability 6 credits
Scholar Michael Davidson has suggested that “perhaps the closest link between poetry and disability lies in a conundrum within the genre itself: poetry makes language visible by making language strange.” In this class we will read a wide range of poets who tackle ideas of normalcy and “ability” by centering disability consciousness and culture. We will engage with poetry’s capacity as a genre to destabilize our assumptions and generate new imaginaries. Alongside contemporary U.S. poetry, we will study contemporary theory in the field of disability studies in order to better understand the critical conversations around the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability.
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ENGL 272 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Representing Mumbai 3 credits
In Mumbai we will read a range of poems, short stories, novels and non-fiction that take Mumbai/Bombay as their setting and discuss the ways in which the heterogeneous cosmopolitanisms of the city are both represented and re-articulated in writing on the city. While our focus will be on Mumbai/Bombay, the course will also function as an introduction to twentieth century and contemporary Indian writing.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in OCS Mumbai/Seoul Program
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ENGL 274 Ireland Program: Irish Literary Pasts and Presents 6 credits
In Dublin and Belfast we will read and discuss works by Irish writers from the early twentieth century on the Irish Literary Revival and the political and cultural currents leading up the Easter Rising and Irish independence; we will also read works by early twenty-first century Irish writers in conversation with those crucial moments in Irish political and cultural self-fashioning from a century ago. We will also meet with writers and attend readings, lectures, films, and plays.
Participation in Carleton OCS Ireland Program, 1st 5 weeks
- Summer 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS Ireland program
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ENGL 281 Living London Program: Reading London, Writing London 6 credits
This is a creative writing course about writing and place, specifically London. Students will have the opportunity to write short stories, poetry, and non-academic essays (also referred to as creative nonfiction). We will be reading select examples in these genres by contemporary writers and poets based in the United Kingdom, some of whom will visit our class. The primary mode of instruction will be the workshop, which involves large and small-group critique and discussion.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS London Program
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ENGL 332 Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald 6 credits
An intensive study of the novels and short fiction of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The course will focus on the ethos of experimentation and the “homemade” quality of these innovative stylists who shaped the course of American modernism. Works read will be primarily from the twenties and thirties and will include The Sound and the Fury, In Our Time, Light in August, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Go Down, Moses.
- Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course
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ENGL 352 Toni Morrison: Novelist 6 credits
Morrison exposes the limitations of the language of fiction, but refuses to be constrained by them. Her quirky, inimitable, and invariably memorable characters are fully committed to the protocols of the narratives that define them. She is fearless in her choice of subject matter and boundless in her thematic range. And the novelistic site becomes a stage for Morrison’s virtuoso performances. It is to her well-crafted novels that we turn our attention in this course.
- Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor permission
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ENGL 353 The Writings of Virginia Woolf 6 credits
Virginia Woolf is regarded as one of the chief modernist writers, as well as one of the twentieth-century’s most important feminist thinkers. She revolutionized the novel and the concept of time in fiction, as well as ideas of gender and sexuality. She, along with other members of the Bloomsbury Group, was also a critic of World War I and the build-up to World War II. In this course we will read the majority of her novels, as well as selected essays, diary entries, and letters. Articles by literary critics will offer various contexts for our discussions. Some works included: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and “A Room of One’s Own.”
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor consent
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ENGL 381 Living London Program: Reading London, Writing London 6 credits
This is a creative writing course about writing and place, specifically London. Students will have the opportunity to write short stories, poetry, and non-academic essays (also referred to as creative nonfiction). We will be reading select examples in these genres by contemporary writers and poets based in the United Kingdom, some of whom will visit our class. The primary mode of instruction will be the workshop, which involves large and small-group critique and discussion.
For students pariticipating in OCS London Program
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or permission of instructor
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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 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 2023
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 242 Modern American Drama 6 credits
A study of significant American plays from the early twentieth century to the present, including playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Alice Childress, Suzan Lori-Parks, and Lauren Yee. We will read plays from a theatrical lens, discussing them as blueprints for performance by examining their structure, characters, language, and theatricality. We will also discuss how these plays are in conversation with contextual historical events and notions of American identity.
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THEA 242.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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