ENGL 396

Fall 2013 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11

Honors Seminar I

Credit: 3 hours.

Themes, movements, and forms in British, American, and Anglophone literature.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 396 class schedule data for fall 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32226	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	W	Lincoln Hall	Capino, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: American Documentary Section Info: Topic Section D: American Documentary This course studies different modes of American documentary representation in print, sound, and especially moving images, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Students will read picture books about American experiences at home and abroad. They will view film and television documentaries about both banal and monumental events, and listen to audio documentaries about celebrities and "ordinary" people. Topics include the history of the travelogue, the language of nonfiction cinema, the ethics of documentary representation, and the status of documentary?s ?truth claim? in the wake of Photoshop, 9/11, and the resurgence of reality TV. Assignments include response papers, essays, class presentations, and a small documentary project composed in the student?s medium of choice.
	32223	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	Lincoln Hall	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Old and New Media Section Info: Topic Section E: Old and New Media: Gutenberg to Google What does it mean to study literature at the start of the 21C? Are print and its major aesthetic forms archaic or simply mutating? What?s at stake in the shift from analog to digital forms of representation? What was ?a reader??and what will reading be in twenty or a hundred years? To get at these questions, we will work with conventional literary forms (like poems and novels) and consider the material formats in which these genres have historically been consumed (the codex book, the magazine, the newspaper, but also?now?the Kindle and the iPad). But we will also look at photographs, watch movies and TV, play (a few) video games, use apps, and navigate webpages. Mode of production will, in this way, become an important part of how we think about what art is. Some questions these objects might lead us to ask include: what aesthetic problems seem to have emerged when old media (like print, photography, cinema, and television) were still new? What aesthetic forms did this old media tend to generate and why? How are the debates that were once generated by old media reflected in our contemporary experience of new media? Does new media?websites, video games, apps?create the conditions for a new kind of art, and what aesthetic experiments (Twitter novels? Vine movies? YouTube channels?) are these forms producing? Our ?primary? archive will include material drawn from a range of old and new media; secondary readings will include both classic and contemporary theory (possibilities include: Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marshall McLuhan, and (more recently) Friedrich Kittler, Paul Virilio, Gayatri Spivak, Katherine Hayles, Ian Bogost, and Marjorie Perloff). Our goal will be threefold: to identify, describe, and theorize a robust array of 15C-21C aesthetic experiences from within the material contexts that produce them.