ENGL 300

Fall 2013 All Classes

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Writing About Lit Text&Culture

Credit: 3 hours.

Writing-intensive, variable topic course designed to improve English majors' ability to write clear, well-organized, analytically sound and persuasively argued essays relevant to literary studies. Introduces students to some strategies of literary criticism and research through examination of critical texts appropriate to course topic. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement; one year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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

Advanced Composition

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ENGL 300 class schedule data for fall 2013
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33990	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	259 English Building	Stevens, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Lyric Poetry Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English & Rhet majors through April 19. After that, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section C: Lyric Poetry from Shakespeare to Carson Is lyric poetry the signature genre of the 'inner life'? What invests 'meditative verse' (T.S. Eliot's term) with the capacity to move us or the impression that we are hearing an individuated voice speaking to us across time? Surveying a broad range of poems from the fifteenth century until the present moment, this class will emphasize poetry's formal qualities, historical context, relevance to our own moment in history, and relationship to other forms of media. In this writing-intensive class, expect special attention to early modern, modernist, and contemporary British and Commonwealth poetry and to the idea of poetry as performance. Poets covered in this course include, but are not limited to, 'anonymous;' Thomas Wyatt; Shakespeare; John Donne; Andrew Marvell; Robert Browning; William Butler Yeats; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Wilfred Owen; T. S. Eliot; E. E. Cummings; W. H. Auden; Philip Larkin; Louis MacNeice; Sylvia Plath; Glyn Maxwell; Anne Carson; Lynn Crosbie; Sarah Ruhl; and David McGimpsey. Expect also to read such ancillary texts as extracts from Plath's diaries and Auden and Macneice's 'Letters from Iceland.' It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. TEXTS: TBA, likely The Norton Anthology of Poetry (2004) and the anthology New British Poetry (2004) supplemented with a course reader and poems available online; Paul Fussell's text Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1979); and Lynn Crosbie's Liar: A Poem (2006). Evaluation will be based upon consistent participation and upon generating, workshopping, and revising a significant body of writing.
33987	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	1062 Lincoln Hall	Labella, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Race/Paternity Asian Am Poetry Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English & Rhet majors through April 19. After that, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section P: Strange Fathers: Race and Paternity in Asian American Poetry What do paternal identifications reveal about questions of race and gender? This writing course explores how images of the father shape identities, in the work of three major Asian American poets: Li Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and Eugene Gloria. Short extracts drawn from the critical work on fatherhood and subjectivity accompany the discussions of individual poetry collections. Students will learn the basic critical tools for talking about poems, and write poetry criticism for different kinds of readers. Main requirements include exercises, short responses, three essays (including drafts). It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. TEXTS: The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty by Marilyn Chin; Rose by Li Young Lee; Drivers at the Short-Time Motel by Eugene Gloria
33989	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	329 Gregory Hall	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Tales of Economic Disaster Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English & Rhet majors through April 19. After that, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section S: Tales of Economic Disaster Though the global financial collapse of recent years was especially dramatic, experiences of boom and bust, of euphoric growth followed by inglorious ruin, have been part of the capitalist experience since the Tulip Bubble of 17th century Holland. This class will sketch some of the economic history of these crises, including Marx's Communist Manifesto. We will then focus on novels depicting the lived experience of workers and employers (and their families) who suffered through these events and tried to explain them using different moral or political frameworks. Readings will include Gaskell's North and South, Dickens's Hard Times, Gissing's New Grub Street, Norris's The Pit, and Lodge's Nice Work. Since this is a writing class, there will be two close reading papers, one research paper, and a variety of in-class and homework writing assignments.
33988	Lecture-Discussion	X	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	1062 Lincoln Hall	Wright, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Creative Nonfiction as Lit Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English & Rhet majors through April 19. After that, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section X: Creative Nonfiction as Literature In this course, we will read a range of autobiographical and biographical writing that can be qualified as 'creative' or 'literary' non-fiction. We will explore the texts as celebrations of life as well as interrogations of identity, and will also examine the texts as constructed narratives, or as constructed 'truth.' By the end of the semester, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the range of writing known today as creative nonfiction. Evaluated work will include regular written projects, some of which will involve oral presentations, and a long research paper. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses.Topic Section X: Creative Nonfiction as Literature