ENGL 199

Fall 2010

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Aug 23-Dec 8
Undergraduate Open Seminar
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
10065
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
51336
Lecture-Discussion
D
11:00AM -11:50AM
MWF
English Building
Hansen, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Degree Notes:
Discovery course.
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic Section D: Gothic Nation. Set next to the more obviously painstaking, character-driven fiction of a contemporary writer like Jane Austen, the early Gothic novel, a form replete with armies of blood-soaked corpses, usurping Catholic aristocrats, and hyper-sensitive, confined women seems difficult to take seriously. Very often, the Gothic has emerged for us as a kind of literary detritus, as the undesirable and abject residue of a culture?s fears and hostilities, as the rather anemic reflection of society?s most lurid and perverse fantasies. To many the entire genre seems like a protracted literary nightmare that we?d all be a bit better off forgetting, a dream the meaning of which is so painfully and unambiguously obvious that it?s not really worth serious contemplation. In short, the Gothic appears to us as the other of the kind of serious English novel that served as the precursor to modernism. Of course, the Gothic?s paranoiac structure and its antipathetic relationship to the fictions of Enlightenment, to the fictions framed by the classic ?marriage and money plot,? bears remarkable similarity to the kind of suspicious antagonisms that drove those thinkers, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud, whose work provided such vital inspiration to most of the modernist writers. We might say that where the classic nineteenth century novel supplies us with a lively and subtle portrait of British liberal society?s conscious struggles and aspirations, the Gothic, as literary detritus, as dark double of the bourgeois novel, embodies the era?s political, social, and psychic unconscious. The class will explore the Gothic side of British National Identity by reading Matthew Lewis?s The Monk, Anne Radcliffe?s The Italian, Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, Charlotte Bront�?s Jane Eyre, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu?s Carmilla, Bram Stoker?s Dracula, Oscar Wilde?s The Picture of Dorian Gray, James Joyce?s The Dead, Samuel Beckett?s Murphy, and Jean Rhys?s Wide Sargasso Sea. Course requirements will include active participation in class discussion, a daily reading journal, two in-class presentations, two 6-8 page papers and two exams. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to First Time Freshman students.
54538
Lecture-Discussion
RFW
11:00AM -12:15PM
MW
English Building
Davenport, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic Section RWF: Reading for Writers. Section RFW will meet in room 107A English Bldg.
50105
Lecture-Discussion
Lecture-Discussion
S
S
2:00PM -3:15PM
3:30PM -6:00PM
TR
T
English Building
English Building
Camargo, S
Camargo, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Degree Notes:
Discovery course.
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic Section S: Shining Stars in the Cinema Firmament: The Meanings of the Hollywood Star System. The focus of this course will be on analyzing the connections among movie stars, corporate Hollywood, and filmgoers. While we tend to think of stars only in terms of the roles that they play onscreen, the figure of the star is quite multifaceted. Stars have been simultaneously real people, valuable properties, cultural ideals, standard bearers for gender and racial constituencies, and objects of obsessive adoration, depending on the perspective of the various institutions that value and exploit them. We will study stars through a range of films from the studio system to the present as well as through publicity materials, personal biographies, and newspaper and magazine articles about them, compiling star-dossiers on them as a way of analyzing their appeal and their cultural impact. Evaluated work will include the creation of such a dossier on a star of the student?s choosing and short papers analyzing that star?s life and work. First Year Discovery program course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to First Time Freshman students.
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