ENGL 274

Fall 2013 All Classes

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Literature and Society

Credit: 3 hours.

Major literary works presented within the context of social issues of their time.

May be repeated with the permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 274 class schedule data for fall 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	61272	Lecture-Discussion	T	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	108 English Building	Camargo, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Title: Murder as a Fine Art Section Info: Topic Section T: Murder as a Fine Art Murder has figured in our laws and in our literary texts from the earliest days, as an element in our moral education and as a social problem. It was only in the 1840s, however, that murder became bracketed to mass entertainment. In this course we will look at murder from two perspectives. The first group of texts focuses on amateur and professional detectives; the second on professional criminals. Through these opposing lenses, we will analyze fictional representations of crime from a range of perspectives: character studies, motivations, victims, detection methods, representations of the police, social impact of crime, class, gender, race, and reader address. In addition to a range of popular fictional representations of crime, we will also read nonfiction works that allow us to measure the distance between these fictions and reality. Evaluated work will include several short response papers and two longer papers.