ENGL 462

Fall 2012 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 27-Dec 12

Topics in Modern Fiction

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced seminar devoted to topics in British, American, and Anglophone fiction from approximately 1800 to the present day. Continental fiction in English translation may occasionally be considered.

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 462 class schedule data for fall 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
40448	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: 21st C AmerInternational Novel Section Info: Topic Section 1G: The 21st Century American International Novel This version of English 462 emphasizes twenty-first century American novels whose unifying special interest rests on their commitment to life outside the US. Sometimes, the action returns to the mainland in these books, but they are centrally concerned with Americans abroad?in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South America. We will be observing how twenty-first century authors imaginatively render the ways Americans make sense of themselves, even when the experience they encounter takes place elsewhere. We will also observe how we interpret other cultures and countries: the limits and possibilities of our own social premises and cultural ideals. And, by contrast, we will also attend to the ways other cultures make sense of us. Students may be startled by the richness of these novels, just as they may also be surprised to learn that US writers have been producing this kind of fiction for over 150 years, not just in Henry James?s London or Ernest Hemingway?s Paris. Instead, American novelists have been imagining sojourns everywhere, just as writers from around the world have come to the US as a foreign country to confront and whose challenges might be recorded. As we will also see, both sorts of journeys have changed after 9/11. The writers we cover may not be known to you, but their novels have all been finalists for or winners of distinguished awards over the last decade. Part of the pleasure of studying this kind of writing is that much of it has not yet been fully assessed by literary historians. Ways of understanding the novels? issues and preoccupations are not yet cemented, and readers are in the happy, if unfamiliar position of responding to the works as entirely fresh?because they are. The reading load is substantive but manageable, provided students stay up to date. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39524	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: 21st C AmerInternational Novel Section Info: Topic Section 1U: The 21st Century American International Novel This version of English 462 emphasizes twenty-first century American novels whose unifying special interest rests on their commitment to life outside the US. Sometimes, the action returns to the mainland in these books, but they are centrally concerned with Americans abroad?in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South America. We will be observing how twenty-first century authors imaginatively render the ways Americans make sense of themselves, even when the experience they encounter takes place elsewhere. We will also observe how we interpret other cultures and countries: the limits and possibilities of our own social premises and cultural ideals. And, by contrast, we will also attend to the ways other cultures make sense of us. Students may be startled by the richness of these novels, just as they may also be surprised to learn that US writers have been producing this kind of fiction for over 150 years, not just in Henry James?s London or Ernest Hemingway?s Paris. Instead, American novelists have been imagining sojourns everywhere, just as writers from around the world have come to the US as a foreign country to confront and whose challenges might be recorded. As we will also see, both sorts of journeys have changed after 9/11. The writers we cover may not be known to you, but their novels have all been finalists for or winners of distinguished awards over the last decade. Part of the pleasure of studying this kind of writing is that much of it has not yet been fully assessed by literary historians. Ways of understanding the novels? issues and preoccupations are not yet cemented, and readers are in the happy, if unfamiliar position of responding to the works as entirely fresh?because they are. The reading load is substantive but manageable, provided students stay up to date. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
41369	Lecture-Discussion	G4	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	Lincoln Hall	Mehta, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Deceit Desire and the Novel Section Info: Topic Section G4: Deceit, Desire and the Novel The subject of this course is the genre of the novel and its concordance with the political and cultural worlds of the bourgeoisie in the 19th and the early 20th century. How did the novel in different stages and ages of capitalist development interact with the reading public? How was sexuality in its normative or deviant forms explored in this genre? What was the relation between public and private spheres? How did the shadow of the lands/colonies//empires far away figure in the narratives? What new elements or rules, if any, were introduced into the scene by the bourgeoisie of colonized societies? These are some of the issues that will be explored in this course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
41370	Lecture-Discussion	U3	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	Lincoln Hall	Mehta, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Deceit Desire and the Novel Section Info: Topic Section U3: Deceit, Desire and the Novel The subject of this course is the genre of the novel and its concordance with the political and cultural worlds of the bourgeoisie in the 19th and the early 20th century. How did the novel in different stages and ages of capitalist development interact with the reading public? How was sexuality in its normative or deviant forms explored in this genre? What was the relation between public and private spheres? How did the shadow of the lands/colonies//empires far away figure in the narratives? What new elements or rules, if any, were introduced into the scene by the bourgeoisie of colonized societies? These are some of the issues that will be explored in this course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.