ENGL 396

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

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 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32226	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	English Building	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Richard Wright's Words Section Info: Topic Section D: Richard Wright's Words This course uses Richard Wright?s life (1908-1960) and work as a guide for discussing literary technique, genre, media technologies, and forms of cultural criticism. Through ?Blueprint for Negro Writing? and Uncle Tom?s Children we discuss the role of the artist in society, Jim Crow histories, Wright?s use of a Marxist analysis, and his theories about folk culture and spirituality. Through iterations of Native Son (novel, plays, films, serialization), we will think about the nature of literary and cultural marketplaces and about how the novel ?works? as a literary form in conversation with other art forms. We will conclude the semester with Black Boy, Wright?s turn to haiku, and the implications of Wright?s notion of a human right to ?think and feel honestly.?