ENGL 300

Fall 2014 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 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33990	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	119 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Amer Novel in 21st Century Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English/Rhetoric/Creative Writing majors through the advanced enrollment period. On 4/28, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section C: The American Novel in the 21st Century This version of English 300 concentrates on the twenty-first century American novel. We will be reading a variety of works, some by authors well along in their careers, some by authors at important middle stages of their development, and some by authors just beginning. Students may be familiar with the fiction of a couple of our writers, might have heard of others, and might not know anything about the rest. Each of these novels has been nominated for or has won a distinguished prize over the last 14 years. Our job will be to describe the grounds by which these books might be interpreted and analyzed for generations of future readers. Our task will lie in learning how to read these novels as responding to contemporary history and by reading the cultural values the texts embed.
33989	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	119 English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: New Racial Subjectivities Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English/Rhetoric/Creative Writing majors through the advanced enrollment period. On 4/28, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section M: New Racial Subjectivities in Contemporary American Literature This course seeks to advance students? abilities to read, write, and complete research. With this task as our emphasis, we will investigate the emergence and representation of various racial subjectivities in more recent American fiction. We will focus on close readings of texts, locating and incorporating secondary sources, digital archival work, as well as revising and editing essays. Another important part of this course will be examining race in contemporary American media aesthetics (tv, cartoons, web series) that have developed along side the rise of new great fiction writers. Further, we will analyze how these new racial subjectivities are connected to forms of racial conflict and the rhetoric of racial difference that define the post-civil rights and post-9/11 period.
33987	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	119 English Building	Nazar, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: British Women's Writing Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English/Rhetoric/Creative Writing majors through the advanced enrollment period. On 4/28, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section P: Sex and Revolution: British Women's Writing from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen All Europe was spellbound in 1793 when the French revolutionaries marched their king, and a few months later, their queen, to the guillotine or ?national razor? and chopped off their heads. In the ensuing Reign of Terror, some 40,000 ?traitors of the revolution? were executed. No nation followed the events in France with greater interest than Britain, France?s close neighbor and long-time opponent. The French revolution was greeted with unbridled enthusiasm by British progressives (especially in its early phases, before the Terror) and with horror by conservatives. Indeed, some of the most important contours of the left-right ideological divide, as we understand it today, were established in Britain during the 1790s, which saw the publication of such landmarks of Anglo-American conservatism as Edmund Burke?s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and of liberalism such as Thomas Paine?s Rights of Man (1791). This course considers how British women writers of the period responded to the ideological upheavals generated by the French revolution, and above all, how they transformed the debate about the ?rights of man? into a vigorous one about women?s rights?as citizens, moral agents, and members of society. Significantly, some of the most interesting discussions of women?s place in society and their capacity for self-governance took place through the medium not of philosophical or political treatises but of literature, and especially the novel, to which women were contributing in growing numbers as authors. Our readings, therefore, will be primarily literary though we will also closely examine such seminal feminist treatises as Mary Wollstonecraft?s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Novels include Wollstonecraft?s The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria, Ann Radcliffe?s The Romance of the Forest, Mary Hays?s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, Elizabeth Inchbald?s A Simple Story, Maria Edgeworth?s Belinda, and Jane Austen?s Sense and Sensibility.
33988	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	119 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Slavery and Feeling Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English/Rhetoric/Creative Writing majors through the advanced enrollment period. On 4/28, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section Q: Slavery and Feeling Slavery has always been associated with intense feeling?terror, rage, shame, fear?and the representation of slavery in literature and film has historically tried to evoke these strong feelings in readers?sometimes sentimentally (in an effort to generate sympathy) and sometimes sensationally (in an effort to generate shock and disgust). In this class, we will explore the representation of slavery and its affects, starting with some eighteenth and nineteenth slave narratives, proceeding to the nineteenth century sentimental novel (such as Stowe?s Uncle Tom Cabin), and extending to more contemporary materials like Toni Morrison?s Beloved, M. NourbeSe Philip?s Zong!, Quentin Tarantino?s Django Unchgained, and Steve McQueen?s Twelve Years a Slave. Primary texts will be supplemented by a range of secondary reading, both historical and theoretical, and student papers will be periodically workshopped.
39501	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	150 English Building	Saville, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Strange Victorian Love Poetry Section Info: ENGL 300 is restricted to English/Rhetoric/Creative Writing majors through the advanced enrollment period. On 4/28, any remaining seats will be open to any major. Topic Section S: Strange Victorian Love Poetry Strangeness can take a broad spectrum of forms from the unfamiliarity of the past that with a little study becomes accessible, to the more radical strangeness of difference so shocking that we cannot accept it no matter how hard we try. The first layers of strangeness in this course concern love within marriage of the British Victorian period (1837-1901)?a time of intense debate over the injustice of many laws especially those affecting women. Not surprisingly, with the reform of marriage laws, love and marriage became prime topics of public conversation with many myths and narratives circulating about ideal male and female lovers. Studying these will lead us into ever stranger textures of love: some voices like those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti?s and Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s sonnet singers may be only mildly strange for they prefigure models we recognize today, but others may be more troubling even to those of us who think of ourselves as ?progressive.? By virtue of the imaginative and challenging ethical questions they pose, strange Victorian love poems make inviting material for exercises in writing about literature. Examining such instances as the Sapphic love of Michael Field, the deadly obsessives in Robert Browning?s ?Porphyria's Lover? or ?My Last Duchess,? or the alienating passion of necrophiliacs and sado-masochists in Algernon Charles Swinburne?s ?The Leper? and ?Anactoria,? we will undertake a variety of writing exercises: for instance, unpacking a poetic metaphor, shaping a pr�cis of a critical argument, integrating secondary material into literary discussions, as well as researching and documenting a critical paper. We will aim to produce approximately 25 pages of graded writing in the course of the semester. 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.