ENGL 461

Spring 2011 All Classes

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Topics in Literature

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced seminar on any of a variety of literary topics.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 461 class schedule data for spring 2011
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32225	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	1110 Foreign Languages Building	Mahaffey, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Fairy Tales and Gender Formation Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32223	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	1110 Foreign Languages Building	Mahaffey, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Fairy Tales and Gender Formation Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
41764	Lecture-Discussion	A	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	G20 Foreign Languages Building	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Topics in Bodies and Genders Section Info: Topic Section A: Gender Benders This course examines literary texts and other cultural documents (biographies, opera, films) from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, which all question the gender roles of their time through a representation of characters with unstable, ambivalent, or ambiguous gender identities. We will pay special attention to social and historical contexts and try to understand the function of transvestites, hermaphrodites, castrati and other gender benders in these texts. In addition to the primary literature, we will read selections from Thomas Laqueur?s Making Sex and Londa Schiebinger?s The Mind Has No Sex? to help us understand how biology and science are used to construct and justify gender identity at various historical moments. This course therefore has particular relevance to current debates about gender and sexual identity, marriage, reproductive rights etc. Texts Catalina de Erauso, Memoirs of a Basque Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World Choisy, L'H�ritier and Perrault, The Story of the Marquis/Marquise de Banneville Farinelli: Il Castrato (Movie) Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
39303	Lecture-Discussion	E	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	G48 Foreign Languages Building	Drouin, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: TOPIC: France and Modernist Magazines: International Publishing Networks and the Avant-Garde. Meets with FR 443 and CWL 471 The experimentation that defines early Twentieth-Century literature first occurred in?and because of?avant-garde periodicals that took advantage of new publishing technologies and shifting readerships. Due in part to the contingent of British and American authors living in Paris, the magazines throughout the period exhibited a markedly international and polyglot nature that is being freshly examined today. This course will introduce students to the methods of periodical studies in order to gain an appreciation for the discourses of modernism in its original context of international and interlingual exchange. Our reading materials will consist of digitized magazines stored at the Modernist Journals Project (http://modjourn.org), as well as the regular and special collections holdings of the University Library. The nature of these materials means that we will pay significant attention to issues of archival digitization and data curation, using interactive technologies as appropriate to our methods. The course will be taught in English. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
39304	Lecture-Discussion	EG	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	G48 Foreign Languages Building	Drouin, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: TOPIC: France and Modernist Magazines: International Publishing Networks and the Avant-Garde. Meets with FR 443 and CWL 471 The experimentation that defines early Twentieth-Century literature first occurred in?and because of?avant-garde periodicals that took advantage of new publishing technologies and shifting readerships. Due in part to the contingent of British and American authors living in Paris, the magazines throughout the period exhibited a markedly international and polyglot nature that is being freshly examined today. This course will introduce students to the methods of periodical studies in order to gain an appreciation for the discourses of modernism in its original context of international and interlingual exchange. Our reading materials will consist of digitized magazines stored at the Modernist Journals Project (http://modjourn.org), as well as the regular and special collections holdings of the University Library. The nature of these materials means that we will pay significant attention to issues of archival digitization and data curation, using interactive technologies as appropriate to our methods. The course will be taught in English. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.